Forget Black Friday or Buy Nothing Day, it should be Jdimytai Damour Day

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It is Black Friday, when everyone mobs the stores, chasing bargains. It is a big economic deal; all the financial media are watching the size of the lineups. It is also Buy Nothing Day, set up in reaction to this fiesta of consumerism by the Adbusters Media Foundation. According to Kalle Lasn, co-founder of Adbusters:

"Our headlong plunge into ecological collapse requires a profound shift in the way we see things. Driving hybrid cars and limiting industrial emissions is great, but they are band-aid solutions if we don't address the core problem: we have to consume less. This is th... Read the full story on TreeHugger


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