November 28 – Buy Nothing Day November 19, 2008
Posted by MelissaHK in culture, environment, life.Tags: buy-nothing-day, culture, environment, media-democracy
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November 28
If you are not familiar with Adbusters and care about the “erosion of our physical and cultural environments by commercial forces”, find out more now.
But Nothing Day was born in 1992 and adopted by environmentalists, but has since grown into an international campaign. And this year, Buy Noting Day is looking at the current economic crisis.
From the Adbusters website:
Suddenly, we ran out of money and, to avoid collapse, we quickly pumped liquidity back into the system. But behind our financial crisis a much more ominous crisis looms: we are running out of nature… fish, forests, fresh water, minerals, soil. What are we going to do when supplies of these vital resources run low?
There’s only one way to avoid the collapse of this human experiment of ours on Planet Earth: we have to consume less.
It will take a massive mindshift. You can start the ball rolling by buying nothing on November 28th. Then celebrate Christmas differently this year, and make a New Year’s resolution to change your lifestyle in 2009.
It’s now or never!
