Around the globe, more and more organizations and individual citizens are standing up and saying enough is enough - no more of this wanton consumption. To help you find your way out of the consumer vortex, we have compiled a list of some of the kick-ass groups working to create a paradigm shift around mindless over-consumption.
Adbusters Magazine remains the foremost anti-consumerism authority in the world: http://www.adbusters.org/
Billboard Liberation Front works to establish a new paradigm in street marketing: http://www.billboardliberation.com/Buy Nothing Day UK: http://www.buynothingday.co.uk/
Campaign for a Commercial-Free Childhood: http://www.commercialfreechildhood.org/
Center for a New American Dream wants Americans to reconfigure their relationship with consumption: http://www.newdream.org/
Center For Media and Democracy PR Watch investigates and exposes public relations spin and propaganda: http://www.prwatch.org/
The Church of Stop Shopping and Reverend Billy preach about reducing consumption: http://www.revbilly.com/
Cradle to Cradle: remaking the way we make things: http://www.mcdonough.com/
Visit the Earth Day Network to see the size of your ecological footprint: http://www.earthday.net/
Freegans are individuals who chose to live based on alternative strategies and minimizing consumption of resources: http://www.freegan.info/
Global Footprint Alliance works to advance the science of sustainability: http://www.footprintnetwork.org/
Naomi Klein, best-selling author of No Logo and The Shock Doctrine: http://www.naomiklein.org/
New Economics Foundation is an independent think-and-do tank that inspires and demonstrates real economic well-being: http://www.neweconomics.org/
The Freecycle Network™ is made up of 4,213 groups with 4,300,000 members across the globe that are giving (& getting) stuff for free: http://www.freecycle.org/
The Story of Stuff with Annie Leonard is a 20-minute online film that examines our consumption patterns: http://www.storyofstuff.com/
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