Salon.com > Miranda Purves http://www.salon.com Sun, 27 May 2012 00:00:00 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 Good wood http://www.salon.com/2004/11/12/smart_wood/ http://www.salon.com/2004/11/12/smart_wood/#comments Fri, 12 Nov 2004 22:34:00 +0000 http://www.salon.com/life//the_big_idea/2004/11/12/smart_wood Some of you readers may, like me, think that a dramatic fiscal crisis is the only event powerful enough to persuade certain les états rouges to rethink their voting style. To that end, you're planning on curtailing all shopping for the next four years to help speed the economy along a downhill slide.

But perhaps we're being too hasty. Voting with our dollars may be one of the few proactive pleasures around right now. It is reassuring to know that a little enlightened consumerism, however small a drop in the global economic bucket, can help support alternatives to everything hateful in the world: deforestation, Wal-Mart creep, generica, corporate crap, golf (well, maybe nothing can stop that...). Let's quickly turn to thoughts of metaphorically greener pastures that got that way without sucking up 1 million cubic meters of water a year (the golf course average), like the very happy-making reclaimed wood furniture movement.

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