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Here is the story that will appear in Saturday's paper (written by me.) It's about one of my neighbours who I've written about before -- the ever-inspiring Mary-Margaret. I secretly think she's turning into too much of a media prostitute though and might have to cut her off soon. (Her two children appeared on the front page of The Saturday Star recently for a story on homework, of all things.)
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Not counting ingestibles, this is all Mary-Margaret McMahon bought last month: stamps, heat packs for her purple, throbbing fingers, and a book on garbage she uses to teach children in schools about composting.
Her friend Karen Ingham has her beat. The only thing she purchased, shiny and new? A cane. "Does that count, since it is a medical device?" she asks in a confessional e-mail.
They're part of a dozen east-end friends who pledged to not buy anything new for all of February.
No new dresses. No body lotion. No Valentines Day cards.
"The motto was `less stuff, more fun,'" says McMahon, a mother of two known affectionately as the "eco-witch" of her Danforth-Woodbine neighbourhood. "Consumption is terrible for the planet. All this stuff uses a lot of energy — creating it makes pollution, selling it, then using it and disposing of it. Do we really need it? Does it make us happy?"
The neighbourhood posse of mothers is part of a growing movement around the world that's unplugging from the consumer grid. Instead of buying green, or buying recycled, they're just not buying.
The idea started around a San Francisco dinner table three Christmases ago. After the discussion turned to how most Christmas gifts end up in the garbage, the group decided to participate in a social experiment. They would spend a year not shopping for anything new. At all. With a few obvious exceptions – food and drink, health essentials like medication, and safety musts, like new bicycle brake pads so coming to a stop didn't mean diving for grass at every stop sign.
They called themselves `The Compact' after the Mayflower Compact, signed by the pilgrims arriving to New England more than three centuries ago bent on building a new pure community. But that was tongue-in-cheek. What motivated most of them was the idea of living a less cluttered, more compact life. (As in trash compacter.) And contributing less to their country's ever-growing landfills.
"It's not easy for me to shop and feel good about it – engaging in mindless consumption," says 27-year-old Rachel Kesel, one of the original Compacters who two years later, is still not shopping.
The idea hit an international nerve. From that dining room, the group found themselves on the Today Show and Good Morning America – deflecting criticism of their small plan as unpatriotic. And a movement was born, with new recruits joining their small on-line Yahoo group. Today, more than 8,000 people from as far as Australia and Taiwan have joined and committed to the same principles.
The idea's appeal, says Kesel, is it's easy portability – anyone can do it. It's also a one-stop shop for addressing global problems – sweatshop labour, climate change, deforestation, mining, she says. "People have a lot of anxiety about the future of the planet," says Kesel, a professional dog-walker. "The compact allows you to address your own anxiety."
Every week, Torontonians chucked more than five kilograms of garbage each in 2006. That's not counting all the waste we recycled and composted. Over a year, that adds up to more than 280 kilograms of trash – on average – each. Across the country, each of us fill 30 green garbage bags a year with our garbage, according to Statistics Canada.
And for every garbage bin we pack, another 70 were packed to produce all that stuff we're throwing out. That's right: 70. A single gold wedding ring gleaming in a store window has a trail of 20 tonnes of mine waste, according to Annie Leonard.
She's an environmental activist who spent 18 years digging through dumps and factories in places like Bangladesh and Haiti researching the international dumping of garbage for environmental groups like GreenPeace and Health Care Without Harm.
After three years of lecturing on the destructive nature of the disposable consumer culture, she condensed her talk into a 20-minute free on-line video called "The Story of Stuff" which is has become an underground hit – averaging 15,000 new views every day.
In it, Leonard shows how most stuff we buy is made to break or seem run-down and old fairly quickly, in order to keep us buying more. She calls it planned and perceived obsolescence – terms coined first by U.S. industrial designer Brooks Stevens in 1954 — and she reveals how it's been enshrined not only in North American culture, but economic policy since the 1950s.
"It was a combination of the government and industry groups that decided to push excessive consumerism as the defining force in American culture, which includes where people gets their self-fulfillment," Leonard says in an interview from her office in Berkeley, California.
But instead of fulfillment, North Americans are decidedly more miserable than they were 60 years ago, she says – trapped in a culture of trying to buy shiny new versions of happiness predestined to break.
Is not shopping the answer? Most compacters say it has given them more free time.
"It's amazing how much time it takes to buy stuff," says Judith Levine, a New York journalist who spent a year signed off not only stores, but movie theatres and restaurants for her book Not Buying It: My Year Without Shopping. "You can spend three hours searching for a new printer part."
Leonard says instead of requiring more work, her experiment with the Compact was relaxing. "I felt like I just got rid of a part-time job. I didn't realize how draining it was to pay attention and stay engaged in the work-watch-spend treadmill. It's exhausting," says Leonard, who lives in a neighbourhood that shares ladders, yard equipment and even a pick-up truck.
Many say the unexpected benefit was feeling more connected to a community.
Less time shopping means more time in parks and libraries. It also means more borrowing, which requires getting to know your neighbours.
McMahon's experiment proved exactly that, she said. She wanted a toilet seat for a presentation on recycled toilet paper. She put out an e-mail to her group of friends and voilà, she had two. When one member of the group needed special cake pans for a photo shoot, they were offered up by a neighbour. A request went out for Velcro stickers. Sure enough, they arrived.
"None of us are deprived. We're living very well," says Kesel, who sports second-hand rain gear for her wetter walks. "You can even find an iPhone used now. The fact that people are throwing things out at such a rapid rate is one of the reasons we found we could do this."
There are times you have to get creative, she admits. For McMahon, it was a birthday party her 10-year-old son Liam was invited to. Instead of buying a present, she baked a lemon-poppy seed cake, the birthday boy's favourite. And she sent along vouchers for nine others like it.
Next year, she hopes to convince her posse to extend the consumer fast to a whole season or even six months.
"It's made all of us more mindful," she says.
Starting today though, she's free to shop new again. What does she plan on buying?
"I don't really need anything," says McMahon, 41. "Maybe a haircut."
The Challenge: Join the Compact for a week.
Motivation: Watch The Story of Stuff. It's a free 20-minute online video that will open your eyes to the damage of our disposable consumer culture.
Process: Don't buy anything new – other than food, medical supplies or safety essentials. You can shop all you want at Value Village or the Goodwill, though.
Cost: Perfectly nothing.
Savings: It depends on how much of a shopaholic you are. Over the year she spent abstaining from shopping for her book Not Buying It: My Year Without Shopping, New York journalist Judith Levine paid down her $8,000 credit card debt.
If you think this is hard-core, check out No Impact Man. He spent a year not only not shopping, but not driving, not using electricity, not even taking the subway.
-- Catherine Porter
On Patricia's sage advice, here is the webiste for Freecycle in Toronto -- it's a kind of free Craig's List.


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See if this sounds familiar: teenage boy in England is informed by wise British elders in robes that he is "special" and that he alone can stop the evil forces bent on conquering the world. Boy is reluctant hero, but ultimately accepts the challenge: balancing world-saving with girl problems and other teenage concerns. Harry Potter? No, a lesser-known literary antecedent: The Dark Is Rising. Unfortunately, the movie version is post-Potter, which is a bad place to be if you're a sub-par, adolescent boy-wonder fantasy film.
The film is based on (or "inspired by," as some diehards no doubt prefer) the 1974 Newberry award-winning book by Susan Cooper—part two of a five-book series of novels for children, originally published in the 60s and 70s. Following in the footsteps of Lewis or Tolkien-esque fantasy, the books feature youths on whimsical adventures, thrust into epic battles between good and evil, with colorful characters and creatures on both sides of the struggle.
I have not read the books, and came into the film with no knowledge of the story. Still, it was pretty easy to follow what was going on. The film takes place in England, where the American Stanton family resides in a shire-esque rural town with a mysterious Arthurian vibe (it's never really explained why they are there, but it's a fun setup nonetheless). The youngest son in a house of seven children, the precocious Will Stanton (Alexander Ludwig) is just celebrating his fourteenth birthday as the movie opens. After his birthday, strange things start happening to him (and not puberty, as his teasing older brothers suggest). Before he knows it, Will is the centerpiece in an epic time-traveling quest to save the world.
Evidently, as a "seventh son of a seventh son," Will is the last in a line of something called "The Old Ones." These "old" ones—which include great British actors like Ian McShane, James Cosmo and Tim Piddock, as well as the formidable thespian, Francis Conroy—are immediately convened to tell Will who he is ("The Sign Seeker") and what he must do. "The dark is rising," we are told, "and Will must restore the light." To do so, he must first collect six "signs" that are hidden across time (Will has the ability to time-travel when he senses a sign). He must collect all the signs (which are small physical objects) in order to defeat the Dark, which is led by a black rider (decidedly Lord of the Rings-esque). As he gains more signs, the Dark feels increasingly threatened and becomes more aggressive. It should all sound very familiar to anyone who read the last three Harry Potter books (can anyone say horcruxes?).
Indeed, this film seems in some ways to be a "Christian alternative" to the Potter franchise. The changing of the title to The Seeker may even be a veiled attempt to trick youngsters into seeing a film that sounds like it will be all about Quidditch. Directed by David Cunningham (To End All Wars) and financed by Walden Media (the Narnia movies), it is clear that this film aims to be a harmless adventure story and little more. I suspect that the books have a slightly darker tinge to them, but the "evil" of the film version is—for the most part—pretty harmless. Embodied in the typical fantasy images (crows, black clouds, shrouded figures), the villainous "Dark" musters everything from snakes to snowstorms to crush the spirits of his enemies. But no one ever dies or is particularly violently injured. We all know good will triumph in the end; it's just a matter of getting through the 94 minutes of mid-level sorcery and horcrux/sign-seeking to get there.
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While motherboard major Gigabyte Technology saw rather stable motherboard shipments performance in the first half of 2011 compared to rival ASUS, it has noted a shipments decline, and has ordered a rearrangement of two of its executives holding the positions of R&D and sales. The two had been swapped to other positions in January, expecting its executive swap strategy would help further boost its R&D and sales ability, but the result has turned out differently. With the two returned to their original positions, Gigabyte hopes to return to competition with ASUS in the second half of 2011. Source: DigiTimes
All they have to do is get a good ufi going, and maybe add an extra fan header. None of this hybrid bios crap. Asus seems to be the only ones that got that right at launch.
uefi Yep if Gigabyte had this I would be buying the ud5 990fx board as we speak,But they don`t and it is why the sales slacked off not the R&D guys fault.
I think Gigabyte's biggest fess up that impacted on its 1H'10 sales is its LGA1155 motherboards lacking UEFI, and a GUI firmware setup program. You feel like you're missing out on something when you pick a Gigabyte LGA1155 motherboard over an ASUS one.
I haven't noticed any decline in demand with GB not having a full UEFI bios. I still sell ten times more gigabyte mobos then other brands. Mainly these days being the Z68, P67Z and the H61 boards
I like GB and even started to buy GB SB MB.. but lack of UEFI and only one USB header made me get an ASRock board for about 20 bucks cheaper with UEFI and plenty of USB headers.
"10 times" ?? Do you work at Centrecom lol. Your store probably gets a good deal to push Gigabyte motherboards but worldwide the figures are very different, with Asus selling slightly more. The numbers can vary a lot from store to store and country to country.
Then here are some advices... Gigabyte: 1 - How about doing things not the stupid way ? With Sandy Bridge fully on , why focus the OC and G1 motherboard brands ONLY on LGA1366? Give us some LGA1155 goodies . 2 - How about giving us new tech like the others? UEFI for instance ? 3 - How about launching the MINI ITX motherboards earlier.... than late like hell? How about making more than just one model of MINI ITX motherboard? Make a basic and a deluxe (with WIFI and Bluetooth and better audio integrated?) 4 - How about having less models of motherboards, and working more on the few ones you have? Jezz... add an e-SATA and +4 phases and you add another number/letter on the motherboard name and bang... new model :shadedshu ...OMG..... give us real advantages like Bluetooth and WiFi, Better Audio and Better Network (hello Intel chip, bye Realtek), less mistakes on the motherboard specification (website different from manual different from the board itself), switch to clear cmos on the back IO (on more models)...
Quality of components isn't low on Gigabyte. They already use the highest-grade HDA codec (ALC889) on all their mid-thru-high motherboards. Intel 82578DC is almost 3x as expensive as Realtek's costliest PCI-E GbE PHY, which Gigabyte uses.
nah not centrecom, one of their competitors though, no bulk deals with the distys, we trust the brand more so we hold more stock over the other brands, plus we get better vendor support from them then any other big mobo vendor (bias but true). better firmware engineering/bug feedback, compatibility inquiries, etc.
Gigabyte use to license DTS:Connect on most of their high-end motherboards, and I used to buy them specifically because of that. Only their G.1 has it now, and it is overpriced on a socket most aren't paying attention to. And the UEFI setup ASUS has is really nice, and somewhat of a good selling point. But, if they try to add such an interface on Gigabyte motherboards, don't half-ass it like MSI (their interface is painful to use-too much clicking).
Whenever I look at the GB mobos, they look good until I notice the price. Somehow the prices always seem too high for the boards when compared to ASUS, MSI & the rest.
they should try getting rid of these revisions and changing the model number, makes buying online a hazard of CPU compatibly
How about this : my last two mobos were Gigabyte, but now I consider buying Asus, because they have sophisticated VRM control and of course real UEFI.
yea, it was the lack of uefi and bios flashing software htat caused the drop in sales not the sales exec in charge of r n d thinking it was a good idea to sell the z68 boards without all the z68 features. same as how the r n d exec in charge of sales did a great job promoting them, its almost as if they was trying to do a bad job to get their old ones back....
Awesome, glad to see I can easily slap another POS bios on my Z68 UD4 that works exactly the same as they did for my P55. Failures of whole systems, in the Z68 a failure in the bios that doesn't allow memtest to read correctly, or CPU-z for that matter. GB needs to get into what matters and keep customers happier than what they are offering now, especially for the amount they are charging for these mid range boards
Some of you, if not most of you, have a problem distinguishing between UEFI and the graphical user interface some motherboard manufacturers use. UEFI does not define a standard for a graphical user interface. You can have UEFI with a BIOS-style text based user interface.


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Another war story to bore you
I hope this does not offend anyone but, this was something that happened on the way to Docs meet back in the 70s. In those days if you lived where I lived if you wanted to talk Hudsons with anyone outside of the family, you had to travel East. We made it a point to always go to Docs meet at Front Royal. We would work all day Thursday andcome home and the Wife would be all packed and leave. We would drive all night and arrive at Front Royal Friday afternoon, check in to the Motel and go to Doc and Thelmas to say hello and sometimes get involved mixing Docs Super 6 punch in his basement. We would of course sample it to make sure it was OK and then go to the pot luck supper. Sometimes I dont remember much about the supper but I do remember never winning the jar of jelly because my parents traveled 20 miles further. (1100 miles and no sleep since Wed. night. lol) Thats not the story. My parents in their 50 Com.6 convert., My brother and wife in their 52 Wasp, and Linda and I in the 51 HH. We all had CBs and would talk to each other and the truckers as we traveled across the country. Did this for years. It was about 2:00AM on I-74 in the middle of Illinois and the CB talk had quieted down when all of the sudden a trucker came on and said" I just saw a Caddlac, East bound with the dome light on and a naked man and women doing ^&&* in the car. Well, Im East bound but I didnt get the mile marker. Needless to say the CB came alive with "Whats the 20 on that Cad." My wife and kids were asleep and I wasnt going to wake them. lol. This went on for about 1/2 hour and the comments made by the truckers--Well I have never laughed so hard in my life--Finally it had quieted down and this trucker came on with this slow Southern draw and ask the 20 on Cad. When he was told East bound in a almost whisper he said" Damm I am always going the wrong way. I never did see the Cad. and I dont know if it ever existed but, It woke me up and I was able to drive a couple more hours without coffee. And that folks was what is was like on Americas highways and byways in the 70s.LOL
Back then the Caddys were still big enough to do that, rolling bordellos they were......
I don't know about Cadillacs as "rolling bordellos" but I know Hudsons were!
Had college buddy who had a really cute early '50s Austin Healey (had o.d. & every time you'd go over a bump it would kick in or out, that's Lucas electrics for you) which I really enjoyed zipping around Tucson in. Anyway we on several occasions traded cars on weekends (I had a '49 S6 coupe, need I say more, LOL!!!!). -
The story goes that Henry Ford was a straight guy (prude) and made Fords narrower than GM cars to discourage Rocking and Rolling in the back seat. After 1946 Fords became as wide as other cars.
Ed -
Henry forgot that it was easy to remove the back seat and put a mattress back there. LOL Lot of little car fans should have been named Ford. hehehe
I always like the big 30's sedans - the ones with the assist straps above the door. Get your gal's feet................... But I digress. This is a family oriented venue. hehehehehe
Alex Burr
Memphis, TN -
I had a 53 Hornet in 1970 in Detroit. A buddy and I were working up there. Just out of Vietnam he was, and I was 4F.
Both of us were crazy.
We were from Ky and his father ran a trucking company up there and we were 21 and 24 years old.
We got to hanging out at a topless bar called "The Waterland" on 8 mile road, on the borderline if you know what I'm talking about.
Danny became friends with a lady named Vicky who danced there.
And for obvious reasons, which I, in my youth and ignorance, didn't realize at the time, he asked to borrow the Hornet to "go to the movies" .
Ok with me and off he went.
Next evening I started somewhere, got in the car and couldn't see out the back window. "Danny, what happened to the headliner?" "Oh, he said, I guess Vicky got excited."
It looked like cats had been fighting in there. Front and back.Clawing the ceiling,
"What the Hell happened Danny?"
"Well Wayne I asked her to put on those spiked heels she had in her bag when I picked her up at the bar, and you know..."
Good thing about a Hudson , you saved money on motel rooms.
Four years later I took my wife to the hospital in the same car to deliver our first child.
Danny passed three years ago and the car left a long time before he did.
We always had a good laugh about sewing up the headliner with a curved upholsters needle and thread.
The stories these cars could tell :-)
The Essex 6 gearstick was able to be rotated out of the way by removing 1 very accessible screw
- most useful & it was even possible to drive the car without that screw in place. Don't ask......Dave Y
New Zealand -
Paul Butler - Oh I hope not!!!!!!!!! LOL ROFL
Alex Burr
Memphis, TN -
Young men have their dreams; old men have their memories. :-))
Alex Burr
Memphis, TN -
Young men have their dreams; old men have their memories.
And don't we remember the good bits best!!Dave Y
New Zealand -
Larry next your going to tell the tale about my 57 Hollywood and the local cops LOL
Speakiing of MY 57 Hollywood. In 1958 it got inaugurated with the seats down one night. Blanket over the seats. What a great motel room with foggy windows.
Fellows, Im assamed of you people. I didnt do anything like that. Linda and I did nothing but hold hands until we were married. LOL When we started dating there was a classmate with a 57 Pontiac that was also chasing her. On one of are little spats she mention his nice car. I made the statement that ifshe thought it was so neat go ahead and date him. Besides I could always find another girl and it would be alot harder to find a clean 52 Hornet (I was driving at the time). PS I paid many times for that statement through the years but we will celebrate our 49 anniversity in Sept. LOL Paul I have stories about that 57 that will make you faint but thats for next time.LOL
cmon, cmon,, lets hear you faint, as long as we are in the mode.....At least one!
In high school, in the early 50's, I had for a short while a 1939 Dodge coupe with a 53 Dodge 241 hemi, etc etc etc. Thought it was a pretty hot car and it did wipe out a lot of challegers.
One Sat. evening at the local back road drag strip we were interrupted by the local gendarmes. Naturally we all scattered to the four winds, me with a cop on my butt. Finally I made a corner he didn't. Since Dad didn't say anything to me on Sunday I figured I'd gotten away with it. Remember - this was the 50's. Kids didn't get away with ANYTHING!!!! Monday morning I came down to go to school and Dad was still home. All he said was 'give me you car keys'.
That night I came home and he handed me something like $500 and told me he'd sold my car - that I didn't deserve it. Then he added the kick in the pants - "we'll go out buy you a car you need to have." Oh, crap.
It wasn't bad enough that he sold my beloved hot rot; he made me buy a 1949 Nash 600 sedan!!!! A Nashcan!!!!!!!! Oh Lord. Do you realize how hard it is to have a date in one of those things - oh the girls wanted to go out, but their Daddies would only let them in my car if he was sitting in the back seat with a shotgun!!!!!!
That isn't to say it was a total failure however. -
hudsontech, ditto,ditto on the 50s. In the 50s it was the parents and the cops against the kids. I had a similiar thing happen. I had 49 super 6 coupe that I had put a straight 8 in out of a wrecked car and was getting pretty good at drag racing. I was chosen to go to Boys State for a week at a Army camp. If your father was a veteran and you had good grades and The American Legion thought you might amount to something (I think I may have disapointed many people) you were chosen. Anyway on Wed. of that week I received a post card from dad telling me he had sold my car.The car was in his name for insurance reasons and I payed him the premions. When I got home he gave me the money and I eventualy bought a 51 Pacemaker that would not go over 70 MPH until I found that SOMEONE had bent the linkage so the carb. would not open clear up. I really feel sorry for anyone that didnt grow up in that period of time.
Hudson Grandpa, I do have some stories about Pauls Hudson but, I have know Paul for ever and condsider him a very good friend. I like to rib him when I get the chance and I hope he knows I am just kidding. I did own his black 57 HH and another person bought it from me before Paul got it. Besides in those days if I wanted to do some serious road racing I drove the stepdowns lol


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I wouldn't trust my ebooks to Amazon, or any other individual cloud provider, either.
I would not consider an ebook to be one I own unless it's DRM-free, and stored redundantly on multiple devices, including once or twice in the cloud. It also needs to be on a futureproof technology -- PDFs, for example, might not be readable in 25 years.
Fortunately, all three of these goals are achievable. My ebook library is 100 volumes (woo-hoo!) and my library of print books is shrinking as fast as I can sort through them, put aside the few I want to keep, and give away the rest.
I am with you there, Kim. I do not believe EVERYTHING should be virtual. I am a hard-bound book lover as well. My point with Amazon was their ability to deliver books at a lower processing cost.
You are right, there always will be physical things of value. The good part about the new options should only be to have more choice, which can increase the value to both consumers and business.
Books. Amazon may be willing to store an eBook for me in the cloud forever, but no -- it's not like owning one. Deep instincts are at work here.
Great thoughts, Mitch.
We seem to be "anchored" in the idea that to have access to something we have to own it; which is an idea that is changing. The old idea that to have access to technology you had to buy hardware/software has evolved to a system of access. No one owns the internet in order to use it, we access it and what we need. Now we are even further adjusted to becoming untethered from PC's and are accessing through tablets, smartphones, and mobile devices.
When we truly recognize how much we are consumed by managing the physical assets, we will begin to appreciate the freedoms that come from creating value; whether in personal or business settings. Look what Amazon accomplished with new models of distribution without the cumbersome inventory systems.
On personal consumption, when we are free to access what we need, we won't need to buy as many physical assets, with the maintenance requirements, but can more enjoy what we need and want. That could be a good thing!
Interesting follow-up: Tumblr co-founder David Karp is worth hundreds of millions of dollars. He has a sparsely furnished house, and only owns one suit.
This Week in Google discussed the Avis-Zipcar acquiisition this week, and said the rich don't own things so much anymore. They lease: residences, vehicles, etc.
We've talked about self-driving cars here, and some people expressed concern it would take away their freedom. For me, it's owning the car that reduces freedom; you have to maintain it and insure it and gas it up and worry about it being stolen or vandalized. Better to just rent a car, if you're one of the people who can swing that.
Really good Blog, Mitch! This certainly confirms the trends we are seeing!
I agree that we are valuing more access than material items, particularly the young people. I think the new technology values, plus the global recession, have framed a new set of priorities. Many people today value information and connectivity more than the physical assets.
The buying changes will continue to evolve, no doubt. But the days of viewing every thing from what we own are changing (just as Amazon changed the notion that book sales only could be produced through book stores with high cost inventories).
Great slides!
kq4ym - It may be a generational thing. Millennials may make do with less, while older folks feel the need for more. Certainly past generations made do with less. Was that because they had to, or they chose to?
Some people are coming to the realization that having more doesn't make them happy, and voluntarily choosing less.
And if the economy goes into the dumper, we may all find that we have to make do with less, whether we want to or not!
While I like to think I can push back from material goods, I'm not so sure I can really do it. And I'm not so sure society in general is going to do it either. The test might be to ask is your house more full of stuff today compared to five years ago.
I know my house is considerably less lacking in storage space and even walking space than just a few years ago, and that's even with a conscious decision to try to cut back on buying new gadgets and conveniences.
It's probably nature and nurture that make man want more 'toys' and find excuses to obtain (and store) them away like squirrels burying nuts in the ground for the winter.
Alison - I'm not a fan of people who disconnect permanently, or for a year. But disconnecting for a few days, or even a few hours, is salutary.
I don't believe it's practical for me. But I'm interested in ways to partly disconnect. On my recent vacation, I shut down my laptop for 10 days, relying solely on the tablet and smartphone for connectivity.
Part of me admires those who choose to disconnect. Part of me doesn't understand it (except on days when I have 400 emails in my work inbox and 3,000+ in my personal email. Then I get it very easily!).