Celebrate "Buy Nothing Day" November 23rd

November 23rd is the anti-consumerism celebration known the world over as "Buy Nothing Day".

The impetus behind "Buy Nothing Day" is to raise awareness of the consumerist culture in which we live, and the degree to which our behavior revolves around our activity as consumers. Mounting environmental evidence suggests that our current consumption rates are unsustainable and that our choices as consumers have a direct impact on the health of the planet. Buy Nothing Day seeks to expose the environmental costs and ethical consequences that result from overconsumption.

A Very Modest Proposal:
One day a year. (November 23)
1 divided by 365=o.oo273 or roughly o.3%
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Abstain from consumerism for 0.3% of the year.
This November 23rd don't be a consumer, just be.

Kalle Lasn, co-founder of the Adbusters Media Foundation, explains BUY NOTHING DAY as a necessary perceptual shift. “Our headlong plunge into ecological collapse requires a profound shift in the way we see things. Driving hybrid cars and limiting industrial emissions is great, but they are band-aid solutions if we don’t address the core problem: we must consume less. This is the message of Buy Nothing Day.”