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Topic: Consumerism

A Salvation Army Christmas Tree at Target in Santa Ana, where the public is encouraged to select an angel with a child's name and gift preference (Al Schaben/Los Angeles Times via Getty Images)

The Bedevilment of Angel Trees

Andi Zeisler
Yolo buying (We Are/Getty Images)

We can't shop our way out of fear

Andi Zeisler
Fall vibes (Carol Yepes/Getty Images)

Please stop saying "boo basket"

Andi Zeisler
Autumn Girlie and Stanley Cups (Photo illustration by Salon/Photo courtesy of Stanley/Getty Images)

Why white girls love Stanley cups

Kelly Pau
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Logistics and transportation of Container Cargo ship (Getty Images/Thatree Thitivongvaroon)

Shipping is causing a carbon nightmare

Joseph Winters - Grist
Presents in colorful wrapping (Getty Images)

The case for spending less on gifts

Eve Andrews - Grist
Businessman standing on beach looking at sky (Getty Images/Mark Langridge)

Can Western "culture" survive its myths?

Richard Eckersley
Smoke from the car exhaust (Getty Images/hirun)

Lifetime cost of owning a car: $1M

Matthew Rozsa
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Man wearing a Hanukkah sweater lights a Hanukkah menorah (Getty Image/wundervisuals)

Keep ugly Xmas sweaters out of Hanukkah

Jen Simon
Security camera in the city (Getty Images/Zhengshun Tang)

9/11: The birth of consumer surveillance

Mary Elizabeth Williams
A woman depositing a plastic bottle in a recycling bin (Getty Images/Andrew Fox)

Behavioral science won't fix the climate

Peter Sutoris
Grocery stores were packed with big crowds and long lines as latest spike of COVID-19 cases prompted panic buying across the country on March 12, 2020 in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. (Creative Touch Imaging Ltd./NurPhoto via Getty Images)

Marketing-speak is bad for the planet

Kate Yoder - Grist
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This undated photo provided by U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention shows CDC's laboratory test kit for the new coronavirus. (CDC via AP)

Online coronavirus tests on the rise

Victoria Knight - KFF Health News
CHICAGO, IL - JANUARY 11: A shopping cart sits outside of a Walmart store on January 11, 2018 in Chicago, Illinois. Walmart announced today it would use savings from the recently revised tax law to increase their starting wage to $11-per-hour, offer some hourly employees a one-time bonus up to $1000, expand maternity and parental leave benefits and will begin to offer adoption assistance. The company also disclosed today that it would be closing 63 of its Sam's Club stores across the US, costing thousands of workers their jobs. (Photo by Scott Olson/Getty Images) (Photo by Scott Olson/Getty Images)

Our addiction to stuff

Tima Bansal, Jury Gualandris - The Conversation
Starbucks red holiday cup, and a vandalized Starbucks cafe. (Mustafa Yalcin/Anadolu Agency/Getty Images/Salon)

The 2010s, as told by Starbucks

Keith A. Spencer
(Scott Olson/Getty Images)

Halloween spending is out of control

Jay L. Zagorsky - The Conversation
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LONDON, ENGLAND - AUGUST 03: The Airbnb logo is displayed on a computer screen on August 3, 2016 in London, England. (Photo by Carl Court/Getty Images) (Carl Court/Getty Images)

Airbnb vs. the hotel industry

Tarik Dogru - The Conversation
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Every day is Black Friday

Bob Hennelly
(Getty/filadendron)

Why fast fashion gets you down

Mary Elizabeth Williams
(Getty/bymuratdeniz)

Give the joy of a cast-off sweater

Mary Elizabeth Williams
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Christmas in Goopland — and beyond

Melanie McFarland
(Getty/Karin de Mamiel)

What's your holiday retail plan?

Mary Elizabeth Williams
(Getty/Salon)

Big Tech wants to own your genealogy

Jason Rhode
Ekoplaza’s plastic-free aisle. (Ewout Huibers/Civil Eats)

A zero-waste grocery grows in Brooklyn

Cathy Erway - Civil Eats
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