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This site details methods that you can use to help defeat consumerism, save money, work less and lead a more satisfying and environmentally benign life while you help to restore the economic self-sufficiency of your community.
We present resources that can help the reader become a better-educated citizen and grassroots activist starting from any level of commitment and knowledge.
In addition, we present techniques that you can use to make yourself and your community less vulnerable to the economic forces that are forced upon us.
Those that continue to play the economic game by obsolete rules are in a losing game. Learn how to create your own rules.
Online since 1995
Updated January 2012
Here are the pages of our site.
At the end of this list is our original home page with images and amplified descriptions.
How consumerism affects society
What does overcoming consumerism accomplish?
Active resistance to consumerism
Two comparative families show the effects of consumerism
Is it acceptable to steal from a large corporation?
A solution for the high cost of living though shared housing
Easy hands-on methods to save resources and money
Resources/References for Education and Action
Why we shut off your polluting engine and where to find the keys
How to Raise and Plant Trees for free
Corporate influence and interlocking boards of directors
Arguments against the use of styrofoam products
quotes from various books referred to in our site
Who we
are & our own personal consumer choices.
Who to cite for school papers.
Consumption chart to print and help quantify how much you use
Outside links illustrating what we have prepared attentive readers for since 1995.
The End of Growth by Richard Heinberg
Here is the essential and masterful
Crash Course by Chris Martenson, This is a detailed and highly illustrated series of free videos with
accompanying transcripts. It is something that every educated citizen should watch and
familiarize themself with. After you watch part or all of it, you will realize that many of the techniques and methods we showcase
are valuable, not just as a means to live a green life and to do the right thing but as a means of long term economic and community survival.
Finally, Read the desperate stories of hundreds of people in the Middle Class and Once Well Off Class who now suffer economic death as the changing rules of society make them irrelevant, poverty bound and the wealth of our nation drifts upward to the top 1%.
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The ideal world that we almost had when the Middle Class flourished and the things that we can change to help bring it back.
http://verdant.net/society.htm
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Active resistance to
consumerism.
Getting aggressive about it and hitting the bastards where it counts.
http://verdant.net/resist.htm
What does overcoming
consumerism accomplish?
http://verdant.net/anticons.htm
Two comparative families show the effects of consumerism
The choices that they make and their consequences.
http://verdant.net/families.htm
How to
grow much of your own food: in
a
yard,
on a
balcony
or a
rooftop.
Is it acceptable to steal from a large corporation?
Do the same morals apply to them as to real human beings?
Discussion and examples. http://verdant.net/stealcorp/.htm
http://verdant.net/building_ideas.htm |
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and better prepared for economic downturn.
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TAKING ACTION Consumer vigilantism and self protection. |
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The Alternate Economy - Definitions and examples- A model for the economically disenfranchised American who can profit from the honorable skills of poverty and community cooperation. http://verdant.net/alternate_economy.htm |
Our favorite project: Richmond Grows,
A public seed lending library as well as a forum to provide educational materials so that every community in America and the world can establish their own seed lending libraries.
The
Slow Crash by Ran
Prieur. 1001
Reasons why you should strengthen your family and your
community.
And another viewpoint with the same conclusions for you:
How to live well on less than $20 a day for housing, food,
and all essentials in the S.F.
Bay Area.
http://verdant.net/sharedhousing.htm
the
index.
The Internet, paid for and built by the taxpayer,
reclaimed by the public.
Open
Source
Software:
Basic description, Lots of links, Free downloads, how to use
it. http://verdant.net/opensource.htm
Easy hands-on methods to save resources and money.
Hundreds of small actions build an an edifice of efficiency and conservation.
Learn or contribute ideas.
Lots of links to various subjects and disciplines that have the potential to affect our lives.
Radical
Anti-Consumerism
http://verdant.net/rad.htm
http://verdant.net/cars.htm
http://verdant.net/yourdiesel.htm
http://verdant.net/cartons.htm
http://verdant.net/corp.htm
Arguments against the use of styrofoam products.
Contains detailed printable
information to help community activists or individuals working alone learn why and how to
persuade merchants to stop using styrofoam(polystyrene) hot drink
cups, food containers and packing material--Why styrofoam is bad.
http://verdant.net/nofoam.htm
More Resources/References for Education and Action.
http://verdant.net/resource.htm
Want LOTS more? Feel like doing some eclectic reading?
Here are quotes from various books referred to in our site:
http://verdant.net/quotes.htm#60%
Who we
are & our own personal consumer choices.
Citations for school papers.
http://verdant.net/chart.htm
We have created
sections of resources that allow you to actually DO
things to improve society and your own well being, rather
than merely talk or think about it, which is of course an
essential first step. We all know what is lacking and
worth keeping in our own communities, therefore we
shouldn't rely on outside experts and consultants and
qualified people to make the decisions for
us-especially when they are trying to sell us yet more products. Sometimes, however,
we do need outside sources of information and tools to
facilitate positive changes. There are many organizations
dedicated to change that are having a growing effect on
society. These organizations are usually not mentioned in
the mainstream media and we enjoy providing a forum for
you to use them. If you have
contributions of ideas or resources please e-mail them to
us. We're totally self
taught in HTML. If something is ugly and you can offer a
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