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• - 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
  
• - Offers a critical look at overconsumption in the first world, which it asserts helps create poverty elsewhere and environmental damage.
  
• - Attacks SUV high fuel consumption, parodies SUV ads, and attacks the war in Iraq and really about oil.
  
• - 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?
  
• - 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.
  
• - Promote innovative alternatives to consumerism, for people seeking better ways to live with the Earth.
  
• - 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.
  
• - 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.
  
• - 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.
  
• - Puts anticonsumerism in the context of "green consumerism" and "ethical consumerism".
  
• - Subversive political and anti-Christmas greeting cards, free graphic images and GIF animations, original protest music and resources for activists and other misfits.
  
• - Offbeat look at shopping centers in America.
  
• - National non-profit organization challenging the "more is better" definition of the American dream.