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Living Minimally | Sierra Club
Living Minimally | Sierra Club. ‘Tis the season for sales. We’ve got Black Friday, Small Business Saturday, and Cyber Monday — days designated for buying more stuff. Yet most of us have spent the better part of a Sunday afternoon decluttering our homes and unloading bags full of unwanted goods at our local thrift store. […]
Russia Prepares For GDP Surge As Consumers Scramble To Spend Their Plunging Rubles | Zero Hedge
Russia Prepares For GDP Surge As Consumers Scramble To Spend Their Plunging Rubles | Zero Hedge. In the most ironic twist of all amid the “currency crisis” enveloping Russia, we suspect the world’s central bankers will be looking on jealously as The CBR manages to achieve precisely what The BoJ and The Fed are desperate to […]
Degrowth, the Book | David Bollier
Degrowth, the Book | David Bollier. In industrialized societies, where so many people regard economic growth as the essence of human progress, the idea of deliberately rejecting growth is seen as insane. Yet that is more or less what the planet’s ecosystems are saying right now about the world economy. It’s also the message of […]
Joe Oliver Looks On The Bright Side Of Low Oil Prices
Joe Oliver Looks On The Bright Side Of Low Oil Prices. Increased consumer spending and additional money for savings are two of the benefits to lower oil prices, federal Finance Minister Joe Oliver has told CBC News, sounding a reassuring note about how plummeting oil prices will affect the Canadian economy. Oil prices have dropped […]
Knowing what ‘just enough’ is: Azby Brown on Japan’s Edo period – Part One | Transition Network
Knowing what ‘just enough’ is: Azby Brown on Japan’s Edo period – Part One | Transition Network. One of the most extraordinary books I have read in recent years is Just Enough: lessons in living green from traditional Japan by Azby Brown. Brown is director of the Konazawa Institute of Technologies Future Design Institute and has lived […]
My year without Amazon | Transition Network
My year without Amazon | Transition Network. Exactly a year ago today I wrote a piece on this blog called The day I closed my Amazon account. It set out why, and how, I had decided that Amazon was so at odds with my values that I was withdrawing my support for good. It turned out […]
Crushing The “Lower Gas Price = More Spending” Fiction | Zero Hedge
Crushing The “Lower Gas Price = More Spending” Fiction | Zero Hedge. Caveats to the equation: lower gas prices = more spending Aside from the long-standing issues of minimal income growth and lackluster job creation, consumers have become accustomed to an end-of-the-year price reprieve at the pump, and in some cases are simply using the increased […]
Modi’s Gas Gambit Faces Hurdle of Coddled Indian Consumer – Bloomberg
Modi’s Gas Gambit Faces Hurdle of Coddled Indian Consumer – Bloomberg. India’s first increase in natural gas prices since 2010 to reverse sliding production leaves a key weakness unresolved: consumers who don’t pay enough for power. Prime Minister Narendra Modi raised the gas tariff by about a third on Oct. 18, part of his biggest energy policy […]
