Buy Nothing Day

How about buying nothing for a day? Would you do it? For more info on the Buy Nothing Day, follow this link: http://www.buynothingday.co.uk

Consumer - what's in a name?

Here's what the famous sociologist Zygmunt Bauman tells us:

'A consumer is a person who consumes, and to consume means using things up: eating them, wearing them, playing with them and otherwise causing them to satisfy one's needs or desires. Since in our part of the world it is money which in most cases mediates between desire and its satisfaction, being a consumer also means appropriating most of the things destined to be consumed.'

Work, Consumerism and the new poor, 1998