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How do you learn to be an Un-Consumer?
<a href="http://video.msn.com/video.aspx?mkt=en-US&brand;=&vid=52d12276-827e-4ae0-bad4-37a641cc4eff">Interview on CNBC</a>
IMO, the unfolding of this oil and housing crisis will trigger a change of culture, and if these things keep getting worse, I think it will be a radical change, people will have to adjust and abandon old habits, as some are already doing it. Kind of Dinosaurs vs. Mammals, mammals adjusted, adapted and survived and Dinosaurs struggled and disappeared.
<a href="http://sfcompact.blogspot.com/">The Compact</a> group after going through this new lifestyle change have found the following benefits:
- accelerated payment of their mortgages
- increments in their kids college education funds
- more charity giving
Some of the things that they advocate are easier to do: reduce meat intake, buy local, reuse, eliminate material dependencies and simplify your life than others: buy 2nd hand clothes (I can get good deals buying out of season), reuse gray water in your garden, the logistics of this sound very complicated to me.
<a href="http://video.msn.com/video.aspx?mkt=en-US&brand;=&vid=52d12276-827e-4ae0-bad4-37a641cc4eff">Interview on CNBC</a>
IMO, the unfolding of this oil and housing crisis will trigger a change of culture, and if these things keep getting worse, I think it will be a radical change, people will have to adjust and abandon old habits, as some are already doing it. Kind of Dinosaurs vs. Mammals, mammals adjusted, adapted and survived and Dinosaurs struggled and disappeared.
<a href="http://sfcompact.blogspot.com/">The Compact</a> group after going through this new lifestyle change have found the following benefits:
- accelerated payment of their mortgages
- increments in their kids college education funds
- more charity giving
Some of the things that they advocate are easier to do: reduce meat intake, buy local, reuse, eliminate material dependencies and simplify your life than others: buy 2nd hand clothes (I can get good deals buying out of season), reuse gray water in your garden, the logistics of this sound very complicated to me.