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Cellphones: the making of a necessity
Bangladesh's necktie ban from yesterday's post got me thinking about the role of custom in consumption. This weekend I finally had to face the fact that my much-battered cell phone is on its way out. Forced to look through the overwhelming number of models out there, I began harking back to the p...
Tags: Cell phones, Connection, Identity, Symbol
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Myths About Mother Earth and Why They Matter
The United Nations has just instituted an International Mother Earth Day--does it matter? Why do we need another "day," you might ask, when the planet is in crisis and we all need to be composting or protesting or finding ways to make do with less, as the occasion warrants? Rather than a useless...
Tags: Anthropology, Legend, Mother, Myth, Story, Symbol
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Earth Hour: The Right Way (and the Right Reason) to Participate
Saturday, March 28, at 8:30Pm is Earth Hour. Why should you join Earth-aware people across the world and turn all your lights off for an hour? I like this reflection from Time Magazine after Earth Hour 2008: Because climate change is essentially a political problem, and the language of politics...
Tags: Air quality, Candle, Earth hour, Energy, Lighing, Soot, Statement, Symbol
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