Halina Brown

The big questions on many minds are: will the current health and economic crises have a lasting effect on future consumption? Will they affect the forces driving overconsumption? Could there be a systemic change towards a less consumption-focused society?  We focus here mainly on the U.S. One thing we have abundantly seen in this crisis … Read more

Within the sustainable consumption community we have been talking for a long time about the need for system change. And there has been no shortage of ideas on that front: from reducing consumption by way of shorter working hours, to reducing competitive consumption by way of less inequality, to controlling advertising, to supporting stronger communities … Read more