Given the billions spent on marketing "green" products and milking the taxpayer for Solyndra-like green energy subsidies, one might think Cornell would do better than "Environmental Issues Affecting Real Estate Investments" and "Sustainable Consumerism: The Retail Studio".
A new ecommerce site called Zady is bringing the conscious consumerism movement to the online retail space by showing shoppers exactly where the goods the carry come from.
Instead of condemning hyper-consumerism, they made quips about "retail therapy," or repeated the line that Morgenson noted in her article: When the going gets tough, the tough go shopping.
Shop till you drop Splurge on luxury goods in colossal cathedrals of consumerism like Dubai Mall, which boasts nearly 1200 retail outlets, a 50 metre long aquarium that is home to over 33,000 marine creatures, and an Olympic sized ice rink.
Even with its wide definition, the Co-op's Ethical Consumerism report acknowledges that "ethical" shopping represents only £35bn of £600bn of retail spending, or 6 per cent.
She brings multi-channel retailing expertise, trend insights and analytics capabilities to benefit retail partners and help them grow their businesses, especially in this digital era, when consumerism is undergoing a fundamental shift.
Each work is retailed at roughly 2,000 times the price of the IKEA hanger, proposing a double poke at mass consumerism, and at the art world's propensity to transform dust to gold by validation of a gallery's white walls.
This proximity of so much retail commerce to world-class athletic competition has some worried that the Olympics here will be remembered as a strange new hybrid of sports appreciation and consumerism gone wild.
Is it consumerism run amok?
Dangerous acts of consumerism.
