Yes, this is how the me-first live: Carefree consumerists, Treating the world like it’s their oyster. (Everyday Psalms, Psalm 73, page 168) I have a mouth. I eat stuff. I consume. Even so, I am […]
Tag: Consumerism
Consume No Plastic Week — Aug. 21-27
Plastic is ubiquitous. It’s everywhere, infiltrating every aspect of our lives. Pick up a pen. It’s plastic. Open up a cereal box. Inside the cereal is packaged in plastic. Get a cup of coffee at […]
What our phones reveal about what we value
The entire time I was growing up as a kid, we used the same rotary phone, adding a second wall phone to the same line somewhere along the way. But after being given the first […]
Death by packaging
We’ve got a packaging problem. A recent article in the venerable Atlantic suggests that those plastic coffee pods that make Keurig brewing machines so convenient and popular are adding tons of the non-recyclable, non-biodegradable plastic K-cups […]