Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Consumption and its externalities: where economy meets ecology / Thomas Princen
  • Individualization: plant a tree, buy a bike, save the world? / Michael Maniates
  • Commoditization: consumption efficiency and an economy of care and connection / Jack Manno
  • Distancing: consumption and the severing of feedback / Thomas Princen
  • Consumption and environment in a global economy / Ken Conca
  • The distancing of waste: overconsumption in a global economy / Jennifer Clapp
  • Environmentally damaging consumption: the impact of American markets on tropical ecosystems in the twentieth century / Richard Tucker
  • In search of consumptive resistance: the voluntary simplicity movement / Michael Maniates
  • Jamming culture: Adbusters' hip media campaign against consumerism / Marilyn Bordwell
  • Think globally, transact locally: the local currency movement and green political economy / Eric Helleiner
  • Caveat certificatum: the case of forest certification / Fred Gale
  • Citizens or consumers: the home power movement as a new practice of technology / Jesse Tatum
  • Conclusion: To confront consumption / Thomas Princen, Michael Maniates, and Ken Conca.