SUSTAIN INITIATIVE by Jennifer Newton

SUSTAIN INITIATIVE by Jennifer Newton

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SUSTAIN INITIATIVE by Jennifer Newton
SUSTAIN INITIATIVE by Jennifer Newton
Digging Deep to Break Free from the Consumer Cycle

Digging Deep to Break Free from the Consumer Cycle

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Jennifer Newton
Mar 17, 2023
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I’ve spent the last several months reflecting on J.B. MacKinnon’s The Day the World Stops Shopping. The premise is rooted in a fairly straightforward but somehow radical thought experiment: What would happen if the world reduced its consumption by 25%? Greenhouse gas emissions would plummet, annual deaths from air pollution wo…

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