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Offbeat look at shopping centers in America.
http://www.efn.org/~hkrieger/mallaise.htm

So concerned about over-consumption, David has become a ghost (recognised, but having little effect), living on under US$900 per year while buying everything and sharing housing. It's a real-life economics experiment.
http://www.geocities.com/davdd.geo/index.html

Offers a critical look at overconsumption in the first world, which it asserts helps create poverty elsewhere and environmental damage.
http://www.enough.org.uk/

Aims to convince people of the case for Anticonsumerism, where people need not feel they must constantly buy new items and use up the world's resources.
http://www.enough.org.uk/enough08.htm

Is there really any evidence that the world could be on the edge of an environmental breakdown due to the overconsumption and misuse of resources?
http://www.enough.org.uk/enough07.htm

Puts anticonsumerism in the context of "green consumerism" and "ethical consumerism".
http://www.enough.org.uk/enough01.htm

Statistics, compiled by the New Road Map Foundation, describing USA consumption patterns and their effects on personal lives and the environment. Advocates a cultural trend toward "low-consumption, high-fulfillment" lifestyles, also known as "voluntary simplicity."
http://www.ecofuture.org/pk/pkar9506.html

Attacks SUV high fuel consumption, parodies SUV ads, and attacks the war in Iraq and really about oil.
http://www.stopsuvs.org/

Promote innovative alternatives to consumerism, for people seeking better ways to live with the Earth.
http://springcreek.oregonstate.edu/consumersanonymous/

European effort, based out of Hedmark University College in Norway, to get consumers to actively participate in developing and improving society by considering ethical issues, diversity of perspectives, global processes and future conditions on a global as well as regional, national and local scale when securing one's own personal needs and well-being.
http://www.hihm.no/concit/

Subversive political and anti-Christmas greeting cards, free graphic images and GIF animations, original protest music and resources for activists and other misfits.
http://www.apoplecticpress.org/