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A season for stuff
Shop till you drop? There's a better way |
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18 Dec 2007 |
Gristmill |
| This guest essay was contributed by Annie Leonard, the activist and writer behind the new online film The Story of Stuff, which looks at 'all our stuff -- where it comes from and where it goes when we throw it away.' ----- It's that time of year again. The bells are jingling and the registers are ring-ting-tingling, too. Black Friday has come and gone, and Cyber Monday orders are in the mail. Now we're wasting time in parking-lot traffic jams and long checkout lin ... |
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| Topics: green living, holiday, shopping, waste, consumerism (all these topics) |
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