We live in a world designed to keep us buying. And there’s a direct line from the billions per year spent on clever marketing, to the overconsumption problem that our society shares today. Marketing is a science, and it’s come a long way over the years. Brands will use every trick in the book toContinue reading “Low Buy 2026 – Outsmarting Overconsumption”
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Low-Buy 2026: An Experiment in Buying Less
This year, let’s challenge ourselves to buy less. Maybe it’s just the algorithm, but “Low Buy” and “No Buy” seem to be everywhere lately, as more people grow tired of the modern consumer-or-bust lifestyle, start saying, “no, I don’t need that” and take back a little control over their money, time, and space. A LowContinue reading “Low-Buy 2026: An Experiment in Buying Less”
Consume Less & Live More
This post is a summary/transcription of a talk that I presented at a Think & Drink event at Cypress & Grove Brewing Co. as part of Zero Waste Week 2025. Consumption isn’t just what we buy, it’s how we live.Consumption shapes the world. Pre the industrial era, people generally only bought what they needed, thenContinue reading “Consume Less & Live More”