Rethinking consumption with 'The Story of Stuff'
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The viral video 'The Story of Stuff' provides a new internet platform for the issue of environmental sustainability and best practices.
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Children in America are becoming deeply enmeshed in the consumer culture of getting and spending.
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Last-minute shopping recommendations from consumer finance experts:
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Poverty can be quite educational. When you've got only so much money to spend, you'll think carefully about the goods you're buying.
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Buckle your wallet: A visit to the temptation that is Roger Vivier.
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The videocassette in film: an unsettling innovation, a romanticized artifact, an LP in an MP3 world.
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By WILLIAM REES-MOGG Ten years ago, an American analyst, James Davidson, and I published a book on the prospects for the information age, The Sovereign Individual. When I reread it now, it seems rather a good book, with a number of insights that have proved correct.
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Business & money: Business sees new ways of reaching consumers - and their own workers.
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Fighting clutter? Here's how to clear it out.
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Two new books provide ambitious overviews of complicated topics.
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Liquid economics of bottled water.
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Consider the New World of Information - stuff that, unlike the paper days of the past, doesn't always physically exist. You've got notes, scrawlings and snippets, Web graphics, photos and sounds. Stuff needs to be cut, pasted, highlighted, annotated, crossed out, dragged away. And, as Ross Perot used to say (or maybe it was Dana Carvey impersonating him), don't forget the graphs and charts.
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I was looking at what my friend Stephen Lewis wrote in HakPakSak a few days ago &#151; specifically newspapersâ roles as public trusts and cornerstones of our informational infrastructure &#151; i.e. sources of solid information and independent commentary essential to informed citizenry, democratic government, effective public policy, and well-functioning economies. What this brought up for me is the notion that human beings are themselves infrastructural;  especially when they are constuctive contributors to the structure we call civilization.
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In the good old days, clutter kings smothered under mountains of their own trash. Like everything else, compulsive hoarding has gone digital. By Jeff Koyen.
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Experiences, not material goods, often make the most memorable gifts.
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Students and professors from different disciplines are collaborating in the study of the environmental ramifications of production and consumption.
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Henry Jenkins  and his observations on social responsibility in Chinese video game culture.