inspiration
reuse
Green Uses for Waste
Environmentally friendly ways to re-use all your waste.
Choose2reuse gives useful tips about reusing: www.choose2reuse.org.uk
Reuse guide inspires ideas for reusing almost everything! www.recycling-guide.org.uk/reuse.html
ReadItSwapIt facilitates direct swapping of books among its members in the UK: www.readitswapit.co.uk
Don’t dump that helps communities reuse www.dontdumpthat.com
Composting – a handy guide with all you need to know www.recyclenow.com/home_composting/composting
Local Exchange and Trading Systems, find out how these systems work and how you can join them around the world at www.transaction.net/money/lets/
second hand
ebay - The world's online (second hand) marketplace: www.ebay.com
Charity shops help you to support both charity and the environment (UK) www.charityshops.org.uk
Thrift Stores - you buy second hand goods and support charities (USA) www.americasthrift.com
Freecycle - get 2nd hand goods for FREE: www.freecycle.org
buying ethically
Slow Food is the antithesis of fast food and fast living. The movement celebrates local food traditions, seasonal produce and the origins of food.
www.slowfood.com
Good Gifts. Give a gift that won't be forgotten, such as funding a travelling library, clearing a minefield or investing in ‘peace oil’, made by a cooperative of Palestinian and Israeli farmers.
www.goodgifts.org
Caring consumer offers cruelty-free companies and products: search.caringconsumer.com
Thread is the BBC's guide to eco-fabulous fashion: www.bbc.co.uk/thread
Ethics girls for ethical fashion and ideas; www.ethicsgirls.co.uk/
Ethical Consumer digs out the dirt on your favourite companies: www.ethicalconsumer.org/
Fair Trade shops – find out where your nearest one is (Europe): www.worldshops.org
Ethical Junction is a directory of ethical companies: www.ethical-junction.org
Oh Big Box Mart, Your every day low prices have a price! In this funny cartoon a factory worker learns the truth about his favorite department store. http://www.jibjab.com/originals/big_box_mart
music
These are some of our favourite Live More songs!
Bob Marley- Rat Race
Rage Against the Machine- Wake Up
Sex Pistols- Holiday in the Sun
Tom Waits- Step Right Up
Talking Heads – Love for Sale
campaigns & movements
Adbusters is a global network of culture jammers and creatives who are working to change the way information flows and meaning is produced in society. www.adbusters.org/
International Buy Nothing Day is an annual day of creative and inspiring protest against consumerism: www.ecoplan.org/ibnd
Never enough - How much is enough? Visit the still very resource-ful web site of this dissolved campaign www.enough.org.uk
Bookcrossing - finished your book? Leave it on a park bench, at a coffee shop, at a hotel on vacation to find a new reader! www.bookcrossing.com
The Church of Stop Shopping – you’ve never seen anything like it! Featuring Reverend Billy and the Stop Shopping Gospel Choir at www.revbilly.com/
Free Hugs are such a joy. Watch huggers embracing shoppers in Peru, China, the Netherlands, the Philippines, South Africa and Hollywood! Smiles guaranteed.
ideas
Guide to living – Friends of the Earth England, Wales and Northern Ireland has a beautiful online guide to other lifestyle choices www.foe.co.uk/living
The Story of Stuff is a film that shows you what it takes to produce the items we buy, a must see! www.storyofstuff.com
Polyp is the wonderful creator of our rat race animation. This radical political cartoonist has a unique talent for exposing the painfully funny truths of our 'big bad world' . Experience him at www.polyp.org.uk
Happiness in cans. We know you're gonna love it!
www.youtube.com/watch?v=L4SzhFQfzlM
Stick with what you got is a video cartoon about brands and identity at www.dothegreenthing.com/videos/101 and here's a page with other games relating to the same idea www.dothegreenthing.com/
Instructables gives tips for making things (instead of buying them) as they specialize in do-it-yourself projects, www.instructables.com
Money won´t make you happy is the conclusion of a research review you can find at www.webmd.com
How to cook a planet – where it all went wrong, and how you can become the solution: www.howtocookaplanet.net
Why money doesn´t buy happiness is explained in this article: www.newsweek.com
Wedding List Giving – got everything you need already? Why not ask friends to donate to charity as a gift? www.weddinglistgiving.com
Freegan – the most sustainable lifestyle ever? www.freegan.info
Affluenza - are you suffering from it too? www.telegraph.co.uk/
Why smiles are better than Prozac - Want to feel happier? www.guardian.co.uk/
New Internationalist Magazine is a communications collective for people, ideas and action on global justice: www.newint.org
Pope hits out at consumer culture, says a BBC article at news.bbc.co.uk
