don’t buy without thinking – the campaign
We decided to do a little campaign on an issue that we find important. We think that natural resource management is neglected all around the world, but with a little caring and attention everyone can do something to better things. I’ve already written about this matter, in Hungarian, but because this is a bigger problem, we decided to do a campaign on this in English. The website will be on-line in a couple of days and all three of us will write our thoughts on this, and we urge everyone to expose their opinion too on that website or in their blogs. We will also do a little urban sticker action to summon some attention on the streets too.
For now, here is a little something about our ideas, which will appear on the website too.
New gadgets and fashion are emerging every day, leading us to buy without rationally thinking trough if we really need that product or not. Thoughtless buying leads to the ingestion of all the natural resources and to the endless growth of garbage piles, thous killing our planet.
If you think too, that this is a problem let’s do something about it. Let’s keep just one week, for starters, when we would think about if we really need the product we are about to buy, and if we don’t need it let’s put it back on the shelf. June 1-7. Spread the word.
Captain B.
have you heard of “buy nothing day”? every november 24/25 people are encouraged to practice self-restrain and rather turn into nomad city users
check it out:
http://adbusters.org/metas/eco/bnd//
Yes I’ve heard about it
But although this is what we’re about to do is similar, I think it also has some differences. It is not about not buying products at all, but not buying products just for the fun of it, when we don’t even really need that something.
I don’t know why I was asked to approve your comment, maybe I did something wrong when posting, hope will never happen again.
if my nead is really, really fun, like jellypens for me, I do buy! except for that buy nothing day
do you buy this?
: ) )
well, if you must have fun, then buy it : ) )