Just picked up a copy of Ellis Jones’ shopping guide. As a consumer trying to influence the world with my dollar, I find it really easy to use. I’m big on organization and layout and think Jones’ guide an easy quick reference from airlines, to canned fruits/vegis, to salsa, to soap, to vitamins and tea.
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Posts Tagged as ‘consumption’
July 31, 2008
The Better World Shopping Guide
June 20, 2008
Fear of hive mentality in comics and sci-fi
Collective entities (specifically technological oriented collectives) represented in science fiction serve as an interesting commentary that offer some interesting insight. More specifically, the response of the humans sharing the stage with this character type can serve as an indictment against three concepts in Western culture. Namely, socialism, consumption, and the Internet. Bear with me here [...]
