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Resources

For Adults

Hands-On Advice

• The Book of New Family Traditions by Meg Cox (Running Press, 2003)
• EcoKids: Raising Children Who Care for the Earth by Dan Chiras (New Society Publishers, 2005)
• Families for Conscious Living
• Family Fun magazine
• Good Times Made Simple: The Lost Art of Fun
• Living Simply with Children : A Voluntary Simplicity Guide for Moms, Dads, and Kids Who Want to Reclaim the Bliss of Childhood and the Joy of Parenting by Marie Sherlock (Three Rivers Press, 2003)
• More Mudpies: 101 Alternatives to Television by Nancy Blakey (Tricycle Press, 1994)
• Prodigal Sons and Material Girls: How Not to Be Your Child’s ATM by Nathan Dungan (Wiley, 2003)
• What Kids Really Want That Money Can’t Buy: Tips for Parenting in a Commercial World by Betsy Taylor (Time Warner, 2003)

Issue Awareness

• Affluenza: The All-Consuming Epidemic by John De Graaf et al. (Berrett-Koehler Publishers, 2002)
• Born to Buy: The Commercialized Child and the New Commercial Culture by Juliet Schor (Scribner, 2004)
• Branded: The Buying and Selling of Teenagers by Alissa Quart (Perseus Books, 2003)
• Can't Buy My Love: How Advertising Changes the Way We Think and Feel by Jean Kilbourne (Free Press, 2000)
• Captive Audience (video)
• Consuming Kids: The Hostile Takeover of Childhood by Susan Linn (The New Press, 2004)
• Last Child in the Woods: Saving Our Children from Nature-Deficit Disorder by Richard Louv (Algonquin Books, 2005)
• More Fun, Less Stuff: The Challenges and Rewards of a New American Dream (video)
• No Logo : Taking Aim at the Brand Bullies by Naomi Klein (Picador, 1999)
• Reviving Ophelia: Saving the Selves of Adolescent Girls by Mary Pipher (Ballantine Books 1995)
  

For Educators

Curriculum Guides

• Smart Consumers: An Educator’s Guide to Exploring Consumer Issues and the Environment
• Healthy Children – Healthy Planet

For Kids and Teens

Books and Magazines

• The Gift of Nothing by Patrick McDonnell (Little, Brown, & Company, 2005)
• Henry Hikes to Fitchburg by Donald B. Johnson (Houghton Mifflin, 2000)
• The Lorax by Dr. Seuss (Random House, 1971)
• Made You Look by Shari Graydon (Annick Press, 2003)
• New Moon magazine, edited by and for girls ages 8 to 14

Non-Commercial websites

• Consumption Gumption – a game that tests kids’ awareness as consumers.
• Don’t Buy It! – PBS site for kids to evaluate and analyze media messages.
• The Great Green Web Game – A game to test kids’ knowledge of how consumer choices affect the environment.
• I Buy Different – A website sponsored by New Dream and World Wildlife Fund dedicated to helping kids be, live, and buy differently to make a difference.

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