#inconspicuous consumption

[dahslifeandstuff]

Currently reading - Inconspicuous Consumption

If this is the same Earth Day we commemorate now, I never knew this was the story behind sitting in the classroom in the dark for an hour every year...

[jamespauljones-nonfiction]

Inconspicuous Consumption - Tatiana Schlossberg

Grand central Publishing - 2019

[davidpotash]

Pulling The Climate Thread

Most Americans are concerned about changes to the climate. The percentage of folks paying attention has been steadily climbing over the decades, in sync with rises in temperatures and episodes of extreme weather. So we now know more. But what can one individual do? Is it possible to be an informed “green” consumer, to live an ethical life that does not unduly contribute to climate change? It’s…

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[bigtickhk]

To Fight Global Warming, Think More About Systems Than About What You Consume

In “Inconspicuous Consumption,” Tatiana Schlossberg looks at all the ways we have an effect on the environment — and the limits of consumer activism.

Inconspicuous Consumption: The Environmental Impact You Don't Know You Have by Tatiana Schlossberg https://amzn.to/2NIyxDm

[jamespauljones]

Inconspicuous Consumption - Tatiana Schlossberg

Grand Central Publishing - 2019

[squirrelingbeaver]

This new elite cements its status through prizing knowledge and building cultural capital, not to mention the spending habits that go with it – preferring to spend on services, education and human-capital investments over purely material goods. These new status behaviours are what I call ‘inconspicuous consumption’. None of the consumer choices that the term covers are inherently obvious or ostensibly material but they are, without question, exclusionary.

[criticaltheoryoftechnology]

"In an email disclosed in the case, a lawyer for Mr. Zuckerberg wrote to the opposing lawyer, “As your client knows, Mr. Zuckerberg goes to great lengths to protect the privacy of his personal life.”

Which adds a wrinkle: Some people requiring nondisclosure are the very ones who have built an industry on its opposite, the disclosure of personal information.

Understandably, new tech millionaires might want to disguise their wealth at a time when resentment is rising toward tech workers gentrifying the Bay Area. Call it inconspicuous consumption."

...Her first name was Sharon, and she said she was a retired, early-generation techie but declined to give her last name, saying she feared “retribution.”