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Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
Meet Randall, one of 20 million people worldwide shopping for a shirt on any given day. Amazingly, he and the 19,999,999 others find a shirt they want to buy. Who's behind this remarkable system that supplies shirts, food, shelter and most other desires of daily life?
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
Economist and bestselling author Juliet Schor lays out a positive vision for rethinking our relationship to consumer goods in this accessible and timely analysis of the devastating ecological, social, and personal costs of mass consumerism. Ranging from cutting-edge developments in economic theory, social analysis, and ecological design to real-world examples of these ideas being put into practice around the world, Schor makes a compelling case that...
3) Green
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
Multi award winning. Her name is Green, she is alone in a world that doesn't belong to her. She is a female orangutan, victim of deforestation and resource exploitation. This film is an emotional journey with Green's final days. It is a visual ride presenting the devastating impacts of logging and land clearing for palm oil plantations, the choking haze created by rainforest fires and the tragic end of rainforest biodiversity. We watch the effects...
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
Edward O. Wilson The future of life: Biodiversity in the New Millennium excellent. A vivid and hopeful journey through the world of biodiversity. Wilson's ideas are seminal to any serious discussion of the relationship between science, nature, and humanity. Peter Raven, Chair, National Research Council, Division of Earth and Life Studies Bottlenecks: From the destruction of natural habitats to the accelerating loss of species, Wilson sets his stage...
Author
Publisher
Mango Publishing
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
"Closing is a process, not an event. In the course of closing, there are inevitably many conversations with a variety of potential clients. Closing the Sale will teach you hot to influence good decisions to achieve mutually beneficial outcomes from these conversations."--Page [4] of cover.
Customer success leads to your success--when you learn how to guide the conversation and turn talking into decision-making. Closing is a process, not an event....
Author
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pub. Date
2010
Language
English
Description
"Wall Street Journal" reporter Kevin Salwen recounts his family's efforts to stop their overconsumption and instead start giving back to the world, describing how they sold their mansion, moved into a house half its size, and gave half of the proceeds from the sale to charity.
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
This hard-hitting documentary investigates why so many Americans - college and high school students in particular - are being strangled by debt. Zeroing in on how the mall has replaced the factory as America's dominant economic engine, Emmy Award-winning former ABC News and CNN producer Danny Schechter shows how college students are being forced to pay higher interest on loans while graduating, on average, with more than {dollar}20,000 in consumer...
Publisher
Media Education Foundation
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
Digital Disconnect trains its sights on the relationship between the internet and democracy in the age of fake news, filter bubbles, and Facebook security breaches. Moving from the development of the internet as a publicly-funded project in the late 1960s to its full-scale commercialization today, renowned media scholar Robert McChesney traces how the democratizing potential of the internet has been radically compromised by the logic of capitalism...
11) The 100 Thing Challenge: How I Got Rid of Almost Everything, Remade My Life, and Regained My Soul
Author
Publisher
HarperCollins
Pub. Date
[2010]
Language
English
Description
s also an inspiring, invigorating guide to how we all can begin to live simpler, more meaningful lives.
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown Spark
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
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Description
An "exciting and engaging" investigation (Jonah Berger) of the secret, tangled emotional relationships people have with things--drawing on cutting-edge findings from the fields of psychology, neuroscience, and marketing. Books, baseball cards, ceramic figurines, art, iPhones, clothing, cars, music, dolls, furniture, and even nature itself. If you're like most people, at some point in your life you've found yourself indulging in a love affair with...
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
This powerful video scrutinizes what Juliet Schor calls "the new consumerism" - a national phenomenon of upscale spending shaped and reinforced by a media system driven by commercial interests. Illustrated with hundreds of media examples, The Overspent American draws attention to the costs (both financial and social) of the relentless search for happiness and identity through spending.
Publisher
Media Education Foundation
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
In this highly anticipated sequel to his groundbreaking "Advertising & the End of the World," media scholar Sut Jhally explores the devastating personal and environmental fallout from advertising, commercial culture, and rampant American consumerism. Ranging from the emergence of the modern advertising industry in the early 20th century to the full-scale commercialization of the culture today, Jhally identifies one consistent message running throughout...
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
Are we too materialistic? Are we willfully trashing the planet in our pursuit of things? And what's the source of all this frenetic consumer energy and desire anyway? In a fast-paced tour of the ecological and psychological terrain of American consumer culture, Shop 'Til You Drop challenges us to confront these questions head-on. Taking aim at the high-stress, high-octane pace of fast-lane materialism, the film moves beneath the seductive surfaces...
Author
Publisher
Zondervan
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
An updated and revised version of a book that has impacted thousands of churches: Are you tired of how consumerism has stolen the soul of Christmas? This year, take a stand! Join the groundswell of Christ-followers who are choosing to make Christmas what it should be -- a joyous celebration of Jesus' birth that enriches our hearts and the world around us, not a retail circus that depletes our pocketbooks and defeats our spirits. Advent Conspiracy...
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
Naomi Klein, acclaimed journalist and author of the best-selling book No Logo, examines the rise of international branding and the grassroots anti-corporate campaigns it has inspired. She asks viewers to consider the costs of globalization, including the disappearance of public space, consumer choice, and stable, meaningful work.
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