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      Center for a New American Dream

      National non-profit organization challenging the "more is better" definition of the American dream.
      http://www.newdream.org/

      Mall-aise

      Offbeat look at shopping centers in America.
      http://www.efn.org/~hkrieger/mallaise.htm

      Buy Nothing Christmas

      National initiative started by Canadian Mennonites to de-commercialize Christmas and re-design a Christian lifestyle that is richer in meaning, smaller in impact upon the earth, and greater in giving to people less-privileged.
      http://www.buynothingchristmas.org/

      Being a Ghost - Doing Very Little - Helps the Environment

      So concerned about over-consumption, David has become a ghost (recognised, but having little effect), living on under US$900 per year while buying everything and sharing housing. It's a real-life economics experiment.
      http://www.geocities.com/davdd.geo/index.html

      Never Enough

      Offers a critical look at overconsumption in the first world, which it asserts helps create poverty elsewhere and environmental damage.
      http://www.enough.org.uk/

      How Can We Change Consumerism?

      Aims to convince people of the case for Anticonsumerism, where people need not feel they must constantly buy new items and use up the world's resources.
      http://www.enough.org.uk/enough08.htm

      Overconsumption: A Scientific View

      Is there really any evidence that the world could be on the edge of an environmental breakdown due to the overconsumption and misuse of resources?
      http://www.enough.org.uk/enough07.htm

      What Is Anticonsumerism?

      Puts anticonsumerism in the context of "green consumerism" and "ethical consumerism".
      http://www.enough.org.uk/enough01.htm

      Trade and Environment Database

      Inventory for cases of trade and environment. From these cases, TED is also a point of context for research and discussion of trade and environment topics. Papers, virtual conferences.
      http://www.american.edu/projects/mandala/TED/ted.htm

      All-Consuming Passion - Waking up from the American Dream

      Statistics, compiled by the New Road Map Foundation, describing USA consumption patterns and their effects on personal lives and the environment. Advocates a cultural trend toward "low-consumption, high-fulfillment" lifestyles, also known as "voluntary
      http://www.ecofuture.org/pk/pkar9506.html

      StopSUVs.org

      Attacks SUV high fuel consumption, parodies SUV ads, and attacks the war in Iraq and really about oil.
      http://www.stopsuvs.org/
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      Consumers Anonymous

      Promote innovative alternatives to consumerism, for people seeking better ways to live with the Earth.
      http://springcreek.oregonstate.edu/consumersanonymous/

      Consumer Citizenship

      European effort, based out of Hedmark University College in Norway, to get consumers to actively participate in developing and improving society by considering ethical issues, diversity of perspectives, global processes and future conditions on a global
      http://www.hihm.no/concit/

      Apoplectic Press: Curious Cards for Bewildering Times

      Subversive political and anti-Christmas greeting cards, free graphic images and GIF animations, original protest music and resources for activists and other misfits.
      http://www.apoplecticpress.org/

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