Brummet's Conscious Blog

-- Quote of the Day -- ...De Ja Vu?? ... I seem to remember having posted this quote below already in the past, yet it was in my notes for this blog and I do think that it is worth the risk of repeating myself on this one: "We have arrived at a new phase in human history where a certain part of the world’s population are in a state of almost forced consumerism – feed by massive marketing budgets and a willing and compliant media and where the economy is based not on real indicators of wealth but on how much we consume. Where predatory businesses practices ...and long wasteful supply chains where quality and reparability and reusability have been replaced by the notion that it’s cheaper to buy a new one than keep and fix the old one" *Excerpted from a letter written by Warren Snow via the Zero Waste San Diego Group . Warren happens to have been an international speaker at CRRA 2003 - where he represented the ZWIA and Zero Waste New Zealand organization...