Monthly Archives: September 2012

This week my epiphany was related to the Durning reading. He states that the problem with over-consumption comes down to the consumer. The importance of material items that our society has placed on us, we all try and meet these … Continue reading →

This week, even though the reading was a little difficult to read, to me, had the most direct and potential solutions to our consumerism problems. I believe that understanding the whole package of what has driven down prices creating “artificially … Continue reading →

Walking away from this week’s discussion I did not have an epiphany but I did learn how over consumption of products tend to come from need of cheap imports. It was said how consumers are more likely to purchase cheap … Continue reading →

Instead of having an epiphany this week, I continued to learn about a topic that we discussed a few weeks ago. In my field team group we decided to do our documentary over the huge amount of water that is … Continue reading →

My epiphany was more of a realization of how we adopted ideas about the more we have or consume the better life will be. I realized that one of the common factors, when you break it down to the basics, … Continue reading →

The most enlightening fact that I learned this week is the fact that consumption is not directly correlated to personal fulfillment. Although consumption has risen drastically over the last few centuries, studies have shown the level of happiness in people … Continue reading →

This week my epiphany was not necessarily over our Tuesday discussion, but rather our project being conducted within our Field Teams.  I liked working with a different set of people and discussing some of the same issues that we discuss … Continue reading →

I had an epiphany just a few hours actually, when my group was meeting about our upcoming assignment. We are doing the topic of Fast Fashion and I started to actually think about what it meant. Many people don’t understand … Continue reading →

There were many things that I learned this week and many things I found fascinating.  The article, “Prices and quantities: unsustainable consumption and the global economy”, really opened my eyes about our large scale of consumption.  The first thing I … Continue reading →

After reading Durning’s article on Limiting Consumption,  I have become more aware of  my personal consumption habits. Durning made a valid point when he stated. “After all, much of what we consume is wasted or unwanted in the first place”. … Continue reading →