Hi u!
I'm gonna help an ecologist magazine and I've offered myself 2 write an article about the relationship between the publicity (is that like this? I mean, when enterprises r making whatever with the hope that u buy their products) and the biosphere damage...
could u help me, please?
I need some bibliography or any website that can help me and give me some ideas...
thnx!

Hi u!
I'm gonna help an ecologist magazine and I've offered myself 2 write an article about the relationship between the publicity (is that like this? I mean, when enterprises r making whatever with the hope that u buy their products) and the biosphere damage...
could u help me, please?
I need some bibliography or any website that can help me and give me some ideas...
thnx!

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Can you be more specific?

Can you be more specific?

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Hi,
AC.. are you referring to advertisement and its ecological approach in persuading customers to purchase/consume?
Or maybe it's the way ads try to generate increase consumption which leads to a heavier impact in our environment. Can you be more specific please? Thanx

Hi,
AC.. are you referring to advertisement and its ecological approach in persuading customers to purchase/consume?
Or maybe it's the way ads try to generate increase consumption which leads to a heavier impact in our environment. Can you be more specific please? Thanx

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ok, well, I'd like about the relation between ads, consumption and environmental impact... About how does consumption (to buy things although we don't need'em); e.g. when we buy a new mobile phone every year, and that mobile phone could be useful 4 years more...
Am I expressing well my ideas? 'Coz my mother language is spanish... I can read & understand very well English; either, it's a little bit difficult to xpress myself...
I know that, principally in depeloped countries (as the European Union and the US), they use more things that they need; either, a spanish friend I have says that he was surprised here, in Mexico, because we can repair a TV or a phone, because there, if your machine doesn't function correctly, u simply buy another one and send the oldest one to the trash can...
so, I have more or less an idea, but with my info I couldn't get enough as to write an article; so, I'd like to have more data...
in spanish, we call it «consumismo»; I think it could be «consumism» in English, the action of buying things even if u don't really need'em, and that's bad 4 the environment!

ok, well, I'd like about the relation between ads, consumption and environmental impact... About how does consumption (to buy things although we don't need'em); e.g. when we buy a new mobile phone every year, and that mobile phone could be useful 4 years more...
Am I expressing well my ideas? 'Coz my mother language is spanish... I can read & understand very well English; either, it's a little bit difficult to xpress myself...
I know that, principally in depeloped countries (as the European Union and the US), they use more things that they need; either, a spanish friend I have says that he was surprised here, in Mexico, because we can repair a TV or a phone, because there, if your machine doesn't function correctly, u simply buy another one and send the oldest one to the trash can...
so, I have more or less an idea, but with my info I couldn't get enough as to write an article; so, I'd like to have more data...
in spanish, we call it «consumismo»; I think it could be «consumism» in English, the action of buying things even if u don't really need'em, and that's bad 4 the environment!

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Well its a well known issue you are seeking literature about!

seek 'Consumerism' in English its known that way.
With similar links in search engines "Consumerism and Environment" you can a number of articles, related to your topic of research. Also try on the search sections of websites of Greenpeace, National Geographic, Earth Matters and similar environmental issue based websites.

Following url:
http://www.globalissues.org/TradeRelated/Consumption.asp could be a minor help.

You can also see online paid journals of Blackwell, Lancet and Science Direct they will be containing more specific research based contents related to your topic.

Regards,
Bina

Well its a well known issue you are seeking literature about!

seek 'Consumerism' in English its known that way.
With similar links in search engines "Consumerism and Environment" you can a number of articles, related to your topic of research. Also try on the search sections of websites of Greenpeace, National Geographic, Earth Matters and similar environmental issue based websites.

Following url:
http://www.globalissues.org/TradeRelated/Consumption.asp could be a minor help.

You can also see online paid journals of Blackwell, Lancet and Science Direct they will be containing more specific research based contents related to your topic.

Regards,
Bina

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Something content specific to your work:
http://www.verdant.net/society.htm

Something content specific to your work:
http://www.verdant.net/society.htm

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In the "consumer-culture" we live in, what doesn't please me in many advertisements is that they create false needs in consumers. I don't want this to seem as though I'm an anti-consumer advocate, because I'm not. I believe in free choice, and what those ads are trying to do is persuade people to buy their product.. they are trying to do their job. (and some ads are quite funny).
However, we can change the world we live in.. first, by thinking wisely if we really need "that" product. And if we really need it, we should try to seek for better alternatives. We might even come to the conclusion that we don’t need it at all.

AC, your mobile phone example reminds me of a situation I went through two years ago in which I went to a store to buy a battery for my phone. I held up my phone to the store clerk and asked him if he had a battery for my phone. His response was that, because of the price of a new battery, I would be better off with a new phone (the phone was 6 years old).
He kept on insisting me to buy a new phone (even though I knew that a new phone costs more than a battery)
"yeah, but these new phones have this and that and this and that.." he would reply, after I told him that my phone was just fine and all it needed was a new battery.
When fully charged, the phone worked fine, but once it got down to 3 slashes, the phone would turn off (of course it would, it was 6 years old).
But to make a long story short, I was in a hurry and I left the store.. I bought a new battery the next day in another place.

Anyway, change is not a simple task. But we can change the world by sharing what we know. Change will take discipline, creativity and collaboration. And to me, the return in that investment is worth every moment of effort.

Thanks for helping out, Bina. Good luck with your article, AC.

In the "consumer-culture" we live in, what doesn't please me in many advertisements is that they create false needs in consumers. I don't want this to seem as though I'm an anti-consumer advocate, because I'm not. I believe in free choice, and what those ads are trying to do is persuade people to buy their product.. they are trying to do their job. (and some ads are quite funny).
However, we can change the world we live in.. first, by thinking wisely if we really need "that" product. And if we really need it, we should try to seek for better alternatives. We might even come to the conclusion that we don’t need it at all.

AC, your mobile phone example reminds me of a situation I went through two years ago in which I went to a store to buy a battery for my phone. I held up my phone to the store clerk and asked him if he had a battery for my phone. His response was that, because of the price of a new battery, I would be better off with a new phone (the phone was 6 years old).
He kept on insisting me to buy a new phone (even though I knew that a new phone costs more than a battery)
"yeah, but these new phones have this and that and this and that.." he would reply, after I told him that my phone was just fine and all it needed was a new battery.
When fully charged, the phone worked fine, but once it got down to 3 slashes, the phone would turn off (of course it would, it was 6 years old).
But to make a long story short, I was in a hurry and I left the store.. I bought a new battery the next day in another place.

Anyway, change is not a simple task. But we can change the world by sharing what we know. Change will take discipline, creativity and collaboration. And to me, the return in that investment is worth every moment of effort.

Thanks for helping out, Bina. Good luck with your article, AC.

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Btw, you might find this pdf file interesting. Its from a book called Consumer responsibility-taking and eco-labeling schemes in Europe

Btw, you might find this pdf file interesting. Its from a book called Consumer responsibility-taking and eco-labeling schemes in Europe

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A current and future example will be the environmental tragedy that is taking place with the change from analog to high def television signals in the US. This will/is effecting other parts of the world as well.

For the last couple years in preperation for the switch, scheduled for February 2009 I believe, tv manufacturers and retailers have been noting the fact of the switch to consumers, yet as of now this change over really isn't going to affect the millions of cable subscribers....in other words millions of US homes don't really have to go buy new tvs and dispose of the hazardous waste(chemicals, lead glass, plastic etc.) of their old sets, but they will due to ads that aren't giving the whole story.

Incidentally, there doesn't seem to be any consistant program in place for the recycling of the phenomenal waste this will generate.....this will be a crisis that should be layed straight at the feet of the EPA and FCC, they should have been considering funding and putting programs into place immediately with the announcement of stopping broadcasts in analog and certainly should be doing public service announcements about recycling old sets.

A current and future example will be the environmental tragedy that is taking place with the change from analog to high def television signals in the US. This will/is effecting other parts of the world as well.

For the last couple years in preperation for the switch, scheduled for February 2009 I believe, tv manufacturers and retailers have been noting the fact of the switch to consumers, yet as of now this change over really isn't going to affect the millions of cable subscribers....in other words millions of US homes don't really have to go buy new tvs and dispose of the hazardous waste(chemicals, lead glass, plastic etc.) of their old sets, but they will due to ads that aren't giving the whole story.

Incidentally, there doesn't seem to be any consistant program in place for the recycling of the phenomenal waste this will generate.....this will be a crisis that should be layed straight at the feet of the EPA and FCC, they should have been considering funding and putting programs into place immediately with the announcement of stopping broadcasts in analog and certainly should be doing public service announcements about recycling old sets.

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