Sentences with phrase «about consumerism»

Moaning about consumerism on Wirecutter, a site which is intended to help get the most value for one's money and look beyond marketing flash, is a bit like setting up as street preacher in front of a convent.

This recent study by Richins may not have told us much that we didn't already know about consumerism and happiness.

There are ostriches on the side of the National Gallery, a satirical message about consumerism on a wall and a street sign bearing a new spin on the meaning of rat race.

So if people read your paintings as talking about consumerism or environmentalism based on the figurative forms in your work, are they simply reading too much into shapes and colors?

The piece talks about consumerism and how all of these things are related since everything is interconnected.»

«That's a very political statement because it's all about consumerism — it's about buying stuff, right?

Consumer Education for Teens This information was developed by teens, for teens, to educate them about consumerism and to help them become smarter shoppers.

You'll also find the points he and co-writer Jim Taylor make about consumerism and inequality over-laboured and not quite as clever as they perhaps think are.

After all, here is a major company wanting us to consume, consume, consume being preachy about consumerism.

«Dawn of the Dead,» which takes place in a shopping mall, is simply about consumerism.

Every time I watch it part of me is in awe that folks can save thousands of dollars in one shopping trip, while another part of me is completely revolted and concerned about consumerism and of course, the hundreds of sugary items they throw into their cart as they exclaim «it's free!»

All journey, here are a few ways to simplify the holiday season and make it more about tradition and togetherness — and less about consumerism.

Every time I watch it part of me is in awe that folks can save thousands of dollars in one shopping trip, while another part of me is completely revolted and concerned about consumerism and of course, the hundreds of sugary items they throw into their cart as they exclaim «it's free!»

Would stores continue to mark down prices and make the whole holiday really all about consumerism, without the veil of religion that it's hid under for decades?

This wasn't about consumerism very much at all.

John Carpenter's cult classic about consumerism...

Not exact matches

One day of «un-shopping» may not have much of an impact in itself, but «if we stop and think about it for a day, we might find out that we're more deeply tangled in the dragnet of consumerism,» says the Buy Nothing Day website.

I've been thinking often lately about the materialism which seems to pervade every aspect of our North American society, and more often, about the materialism and consumerism that has spread to the church as well.

I've been thinking often lately about the materialism which seems to pervade every aspect of our North American society, and more often, about the materialism and consumerism that has spread...

Which got me thinking about how controlled our society is by consumerism.

To name just a few, Mark writes about how nothing is sacred (p. 107), how feelings have become more important than faith (p. 114), and how society worship idols of self - satisfaction and consumerism (p. 203).

That is, it arises precisely from what has been most characteristic and creative about modern civilization: its dynamically accumulating knowledge and technology, its expanding industrial system and its emphasis on egalitarian consumerism.

In terms of the former, liberal Protestants were concerned about unbridled consumerism and an emerging mass culture while neo-evangelicals sought to buttress a world and life view that curbed socialism and a confessionless moralism on the part of liberal Protestants.

I think you are both right about what consumerism is and isn't.

Occasionally railing against consumerism and complaining about our busy lives will not set us free.

My First tendency was rather naturally to answer in the negative to this question because as far as I know Ralph Nader has no personal faith that is witnessed to publicly through his frequent pronouncements about «consumerism.»

I have to confess that I am not completely pessimistic about the new consumerism in China.

As responses to my CNN post about why millennials leave the church have been pouring in, and as accusations of consumerism fly from one end and of hypocrisy from the other, I was reminded of an older post from April 2012 that seems freshly relevant: «Better Conversations Between the Churched and Un-Churched.»

We can argue about who or what is to blame: Univocity, voluntarism, Duns Scotus, William of Occam, Reformation Protestantism, the Enlightenment, the Industrial Revolution, the Communists, the Fascists, the Surrealists, the Sixties, information technology, pornography, consumerism, psychology — the list is endless.

«Farming is an attractive path for people who are getting out of school and feeling like there's kind of a toxic consumerism and not feeling too excited about working for the Man, especially seeing as he's been spoiling our politics and a lot of our ecology,» she said.

In summary of Harney Sushi's environmental ethos, the creed imprinted on the first page of the menu perhaps says it best: «Harney Sushi appeals to the growing population of sushi lovers who care enough about our planet to change the way they eat; they realize that consumerism, along with the public zeal for exotic seafood, is sucking the breath out of our oceans.

Kel, My god man, wait til you here Wenger quotes today giving out about managers spending and that a managers job is to take players and improve them, that he would rather have a squad of 18 young players and that people (i.e us) have gone mad with consumerism for the sake of it and he will not be pressurised away from.his own ideals.

Plus I hate the stories about customers getting trampled in store runs — don't like to support that kind of consumerism.

I try to speak out about over consumerism, but I feel myself sometimes being sucked into the consumerism of the all natural products.

I went on about saving the planet, the World Health Organization, consumerism, meditation, peace, and how it all ties into food.

We write about the things we are passionate about — natural solutions to health challenges, political issues that directly affect human health and the environment, green living, conscious consumerism, food and nutrition, the mind - body connection, personal development and awakened spirituality.

SpookyMrsGreen is about pagan housewife: Mindful parenting, ethical consumerism and modern pagan lifestyle.

but not enough is being said on youtube about workers in the fashion industry, human rights and how we are given the opportunity, every day, to vote for, or against them with our money... Ethical fashion and consumerism in general is so important and I feel it needs a lot more awareness than it currently has.

Although I did not get to write a lot of posts, I was inspired to see so many others committing to Fashion Revolution Day and asking about everything from #whomademyclothes to conscious consumerism.

So while scrolling through Fashion Week photos online, it's healthy to remember that what's significant about fashion blogging isn't just the opportunity it provides to show off Valentino pumps or rave about Phoebe Philo, but also its role as a bellwether for the changing nature of consumerism and self - expression in the digital era.

Here is something that will interest you: We are INDOSOLE (tire soled footwear https://indosole.com/) and our founder Kyle Parsons did a TEDx talk in Bali about conscious consumerism and upcycling.

«Fast fashion has created a culture of consumerism that is less about personal style and more about constant trend consumption.»

all things our readers can relate to without any difficulty... Btw, I really loved reading your take on waste and consumerism on the post about the 6 × 30 challenge.

While Slater emphasizes that from the start, «computer dating was about more dates, not better dates,» the industry's origins also reflect how determined singles can be in trying to find stable relationships and marriageable partners in the face of marketized relations and hegemonic consumerism.

Spanning consumerism, beauty, gender, body commodification, aging and more, Greenfield has created a comprehensive cautionary tale about a culture heading straight for the cliff's edge.

It's about personal expression, identity, consumerism, and sustainability.

Shot in stunning color and set in a suburb of Tokyo where housewives gossip about the neighbors» new washing machine and unemployed husbands look for work as door - to - door salesmen, this charming comedy refashions Ozu's own silent classic I Was Born, But... to gently satirize consumerism in postwar Japan.

We're told they represent something about mass consumerism and the zombification of western culture, but for practical purposes they're an arsenal of zombie killing implements.

Experimental in its approach, candid about sex, and vicious in its attacks on American conformity and consumerism («Plastics»), the film, adapted by Buck Henry and Calder Willingham from Charles Webb's book, also became a rallying cry for the period's youth, widening the generation gap and emerging as one of the biggest box office smashes of its decade.

Also up this week: a Criterion Channel original documentary on the world of Yasujiro Ozu, a short and a feature about modern consumerism, and a delectable culinary double bill.