Apr 19, 2012 | buy positively, Musings
Written by: Drake Baer via FastCoExist (Illustration via FastCoExist) It’s easy to make fancy products for the chunk of the world that can buy them. But imagine the potential if you made a product that everyone—even the world’s poor—could buy and use. Our...
Apr 13, 2012 | buy positively, Musings
Written by Annie Leonard, author of The Story of Stuff A few years ago I bought a cheap portable radio for $4.99 to listen to the news while I walk to work. Soon after, one of the earphone buds broke. No problem, I thought – I’ll just fix it using parts from my drawer...
Apr 3, 2012 | buy positively, Musings
theeconomist: Daily chart: which country consumes the most trees? The average American uses the paper equivalent of almost six 40-foot (12-metre) trees a year. In Belgium paper consumption is pushed up by the EU bureaucracy in...
