Category:Consumption

Currently most information on this topic is in Where Are We Now

Extensive new report, includes video ***

Interesting chart of our collective ecological footprint

No Logo: Taking Aim at the Brand Bullies is a book by Canadian journalist Naomi Klein.

Confessions of an Eco-Sinner by Fred Pearce, traces where our things come from (includes excerpt).

Manufactured Landscapes. Photographer Ed Burtynsky goes to China to document manufacturing and E-waste.

E-Waste segment on 60 Minutes 11/08 (includes video).

Bill McKibben author of classic End of Nature (excerpt)

Deep Economy: The Wealth of Communities and the Durable Future (excerpt) 2007 interview on book

and new book The Bill McKibben Reader: Pieces from an Active Life 2008 interview.

Everything in Its Path By Kai T. Erikson Recounts the devastating personal and communal effects of the 1972 Buffalo Creek, West Virginia, disaster on a tightly knit Appalachian community suddenly uprooted and dispersed.

Our laptops, game consoles and cell phone use Coltan, which is at the center of civil war and much suffering in the Democratic Republic of Congo.

Watch the spread of Wal-marts Interactive map