{"id":2567,"date":"2014-12-07T09:52:17","date_gmt":"2014-12-07T14:52:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=2567"},"modified":"2014-12-07T09:52:17","modified_gmt":"2014-12-07T14:52:17","slug":"my-year-without-amazon-transition-network","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=2567","title":{"rendered":"My year without Amazon | Transition Network"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.transitionnetwork.org\/blogs\/rob-hopkins\/2014-12\/my-year-without-amazon\">My year without Amazon | Transition Network<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding: 0px 10px 0px 10px;\">Exactly a year ago today I wrote a piece on this blog called\u00a0<a style=\"text-decoration: none; color: #027583; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-bottom-style: dotted; border-bottom-color: #e5e9e4; -webkit-transition-property: all; -webkit-transition-duration: 0.3s; -webkit-transition-timing-function: linear; -webkit-transition-delay: initial;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.transitionnetwork.org\/blogs\/rob-hopkins\/2013-12\/day-i-closed-my-amazon-account\">The day I closed my Amazon account<\/a>. \u00a0It 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. \u00a0It turned out to be the most popular thing I wrote that year. \u00a0It was even<a style=\"text-decoration: none; color: #027583; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-bottom-style: dotted; border-bottom-color: #e5e9e4; -webkit-transition-property: all; -webkit-transition-duration: 0.3s; -webkit-transition-timing-function: linear; -webkit-transition-delay: initial;\" href=\"http:\/\/youtu.be\/P7u-YvsLaUQ\">translated into German and put on YouTube<\/a>. \u00a0I thought it might be useful to offer some reflections on how a year free of Amazon has been. (Spoiler Alert: it&#8217;s been great).<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding: 0px 10px 0px 10px;\">At the end of that article, I wrote:<\/p>\n<blockquote style=\"border-left-width: 5px; border-left-style: solid; border-left-color: #dce1da; font-weight: normal; line-height: 1.5em; font-style: italic; color: #444444; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: #ffffff; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; padding: 0px; margin: 10px 30px 10px 30px;\">\n<p style=\"padding: 0px 10px 0px 10px;\">&#8220;It feels surprisingly unsettling, as one does after ending a relationship, but it was the right thing to do. \u00a0It may be a drop in the ocean, but if enough people do it&#8230;.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p style=\"padding: 0px 10px 0px 10px;\">It appears that a year later I&#8217;m not the only one deliberately crossing the road to avoid that great behemoth of an online retailer. \u00a0A campaign called\u00a0<a style=\"text-decoration: none; color: #027583; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-bottom-style: dotted; border-bottom-color: #e5e9e4; -webkit-transition-property: all; -webkit-transition-duration: 0.3s; -webkit-transition-timing-function: linear; -webkit-transition-delay: initial;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.amazonanonymous.org\/\">Amazon Anonymous<\/a>\u00a0has invited people to pledge to not support Amazon this Christmas, because they:<\/p>\n<blockquote style=\"border-left-width: 5px; border-left-style: solid; border-left-color: #dce1da; font-weight: normal; line-height: 1.5em; font-style: italic; color: #444444; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: #ffffff; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; padding: 0px; margin: 10px 30px 10px 30px;\">\n<p style=\"padding: 0px 10px 0px 10px;\">\u201cdon\u2019t pay their workers a living wage. They dodge their tax. They take money away from our local shops\u201d.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p style=\"padding: 0px 10px 0px 10px;\">Indeed. \u00a0So far signatories have pledged to not spend just over \u00a33 million with Amazon. \u00a0Of course in the big picture of Christmas spending, \u00a33 million is but a drop in Amazon&#8217;s vast ocean, they probably wouldn&#8217;t stop to pick it up if they dropped it, but it&#8217;s a powerful statement nonetheless that has generated a lot of press coverage.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding: 0px 10px 0px 10px;\">&#8230;click on the above link to read the rest of the article&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My year without Amazon | Transition Network. 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