Consumerism

How can we address the challenge of too much consumption?

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Library of Things

Create places in the community where you borrow instead of buy items and can learn how to use them.

Consumerism
Depleted resources
Greater fairness

Circular Economy

The Edible Garden Project

To engage & educate children about healthy eating; learning how to grow, cook and eat fresh veg.

Food supply
Consumerism
Health & wellbeing

Nature
Land Use

The Natural Curriculum Hub, Liverpool John Moores University

To promote the use of Forest School & outdoor learning approaches by trainee teachers & educators.

Biodiversity loss
Consumerism
Health & wellbeing

Nature

Zero Waste Leeds

Build a movement to help make Leeds a zero waste city by 2030.

Carbon emissions
Consumerism
Waste

Circular Economy

Think big locally.

Featured blog

Julia Roebuck: Clothing In Circular Communities

Blog

Don’t Just Consume It, Count It

Oct 06 · 3 mins

There’s an elephant in the room and it’s the greenhouse gas emissions from goods we consume in the UK that have been imported. They don’t count because we choose not to count them. The UK is not...

Why consumerism?

Earth Overshoot Day is a calculated date each year when humanity’s consumption of resources that year exceeded Earth’s capacity to regenerate those resources in the same year. In 2019, the Overshoot Day for the U.K. was 17 May. To live within our means – to moderate our levels of resource extraction, consumption and the resulting pollution – requires a fundamental shift in our collective behaviour and starts with our own attitudes towards consuming more and more stuff. If we are resourceful in outlook and actions, then we can address the fundamental issue behind the ecological crisis of living beyond our means.