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Being a Ghost - Doing Very Little - Helps the Environment 
So concerned about over-consumption, David has become a ghost (recognised, but having little effect), living on under US$900 per year while buying everything and sharing housing. It's a real-life economics experiment.
http://www.geocities.com/davdd.geo/index.html
Buy Nothing Christmas 
National initiative started by Canadian Mennonites to de-commercialize Christmas and re-design a Christian lifestyle that is richer in meaning, smaller in impact upon the earth, and greater in giving to people less-privileged.
http://www.buynothingchristmas.org/
Center for a New American Dream 
National non-profit organization challenging the "more is better" definition of the American dream.
http://www.newdream.org/
Consumer Citizenship 
European effort, based out of Hedmark University College in Norway, to get consumers to actively participate in developing and improving society by considering ethical issues, diversity of perspectives, global processes and future conditions on a global
http://www.hihm.no/concit/
Consumers Anonymous 
Promote innovative alternatives to consumerism, for people seeking better ways to live with the Earth.
http://springcreek.oregonstate.edu/consumersanonymous/
How Can We Change Consumerism? 
Aims to convince people of the case for Anticonsumerism, where people need not feel they must constantly buy new items and use up the world's resources.
http://www.enough.org.uk/enough08.htm
Mall-aise 
Offbeat look at shopping centers in America.
http://www.efn.org/~hkrieger/mallaise.htm
Never Enough 
Offers a critical look at overconsumption in the first world, which it asserts helps create poverty elsewhere and environmental damage.
http://www.enough.org.uk/
Overconsumption: A Scientific View 
Is there really any evidence that the world could be on the edge of an environmental breakdown due to the overconsumption and misuse of resources?
http://www.enough.org.uk/enough07.htm
StopSUVs.org 
Attacks SUV high fuel consumption, parodies SUV ads, and attacks the war in Iraq and really about oil.
http://www.stopsuvs.org/
Trade and Environment Database 
Inventory for cases of trade and environment. From these cases, TED is also a point of context for research and discussion of trade and environment topics. Papers, virtual conferences.
http://www.american.edu/projects/mandala/TED/ted.htm
What Is Anticonsumerism? 
Puts anticonsumerism in the context of "green consumerism" and "ethical consumerism".
http://www.enough.org.uk/enough01.htm
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