On delivery by drone, vinyl and our month of "stuff"
For this month's theme we'll be exploring, in the run up to Christmas, our relationship with "stuff" from different angles. We start with today's post which, among other things, takes you for a drive...
View ArticleThe day I closed my Amazon account
I've done it. I've closed my Amazon account. I now stand before you as an ex-Amazon account-holder. I feel curiously shaky, but at the same time empowered, excited even. While opening a new Amazon...
View ArticleReimagining Santa's Grotto: The Restart Project
The mental image we were brought up with of Santa's workshop was of hoards of elves working away making new stuff, painting wooden trains with paintpots and so on. But what if we were able to shift...
View ArticleStoryteller Steph Bradley on 'Tales of our Times', red flipflops and "stuff"
What's it like to set off, shod only in a pair of flip-flops, with only as much "stuff" as you can fit in a rucksack, to spend months walking the land in search of Tales of Transition? In 2010,...
View ArticleRuth Potts on the New Materialism
Ruth Potts is the co-author, with Andrew Simms, of a pamphlet called The New Materialism, founder of Bread, Print and Roses, and organiser of the recent 'Festival of Making'. She describes her work as...
View ArticleRupert Morrison on what the rebirth of vinyl tells us about "stuff"
The Drift Record Shop describes itself as "an immaculately curated independent music specialist based right in the heart of the Devon countryside". Picking up on Ruth Potts' suggestion yesterday that...
View ArticleBlessed are the PVC makers
Any sense of "we're all in this together" appears to evaporate when it comes to those industries that use the most amount of energy. If a recent lead editorial in The Times is anything to go by,...
View ArticleAdam Corner on the "adverts that want to be your friend"
We're all far too sensible to be influenced by advertising, right? For sure, all of the choices we made while doing our Christmas shopping this year were entirely rational, not possibly swayed by...
View ArticleOliver James on 'affluenza', Love Bombing and strengthening our "emotional...
Over this month of looking at "stuff" from different angles, I came to see that one of my first lightbulb moments in terms of understanding consumerism and the roots of our relationship with "stuff"...
View ArticleAnnie Leonard on stuff, "citizen muscle", and what she's giving this Christmas
What better way to close our month's theme than to talk to Annie Leonard, creator of the 'Story of Stuff' series of videos, who has done more than anyone to popularise the idea of "stuff"? She now...
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