Tag Archives: consumerism

Just Stop the Stuff!

Posted on24. Aug, 2008 by Mrs. Mecomber.

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“Our enormously productive economy… demands that we make consumption our way of like, that we convert the buying and use of goods into rituals, that we seek our spiritual satisfaction, our ego satisfaction, in consumption. We need things consumed, burned up, replaced and discarded at an ever-accelerating rate.” Victor Lebow, 20th century economist, about the [...]

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The Victory Garden

Posted on05. Jun, 2008 by Mrs. Mecomber.

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One of my favorite Upstate blogs, Northview Diary, has a wonderful post with a treasure-trove of links about home-style agriculture in the United States. One link led to an article about the World War II Victory Gardens. I’d never heard of such a thing! Does anyone remember these?

As part of the war effort, the government [...]

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