{"id":1562,"date":"2007-07-01T12:08:36","date_gmt":"2007-07-01T10:08:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/en.greenmedia.md\/?p=1562"},"modified":"2007-07-01T12:08:36","modified_gmt":"2007-07-01T10:08:36","slug":"privatizing-responsibility-the-times-on-green-consumerism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/salvaeco.org\/privatizing-responsibility-the-times-on-green-consumerism.html","title":{"rendered":"Privatizing Responsibility: the Times On Green Consumerism"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>   <a href=\"http:\/\/www.worldchanging.com\/archives\/006975.html\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.worldchanging.com\/postimages\/toparticle\/6693_toparticlephoto.jpg\" alt=\"Article Photo\" align=\"right\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a>Getting misunderstood by the New York Times is a strange experience: it&#8217;s a bit frustrating, but you have to still be kind of flattered that it happened at all. So I certainly have a mixed emotions about the Times&#8217; story today, Buying Into the Green Movement: HERE\u2019S one popular vision for saving the planet: Roll out from under the sumptuous hemp-fiber sheets on your bed in the morning and pull on a pair of $245 organic cotton Levi\u2019s and an Armani biodegradable knit shirt. Stroll from the bedroom in your eco-McMansion, with its photovoltaic solar panels, into the kitchen remodeled with reclaimed lumber. Enter the three-car garage lighted by energy-sipping fluorescent bulbs and slip behind the wheel of your $104,000 Lexus hybrid. Drive to the airport, where you settle in for an 8,000-mile flight\u2014 careful to buy carbon offsets beforehand \u2014 and spend a week driving golf balls made from compacted fish food at an eco-resort in the Maldives. That vision of an eco-sensitive life as a series of choices about what to buy appeals to millions of consumers and arguably defines the current environmental movement as equal parts concern for the earth and for making a stylish statement&#8230; (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.worldchanging.com\/archives\/006975.html\">more<\/a>)<\/p>\n<p>(Posted by <b>Alex Steffen<\/b> in <i><a href=\"http:\/\/www.worldchanging.com\/search\/?category=65&amp;search=Go\">Media<\/a><\/i> at 12:44 AM)<\/p>\n<p>  <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/worldchanging_fulltext\/~4\/129435354\" height=\"1\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Getting misunderstood by the New York Times is a strange experience: it&#8217;s a bit frustrating, but you have to still be kind of flattered that it happened at all. So I certainly have a mixed emotions about the Times&#8217; story today, Buying Into the Green Movement: HERE\u2019S one popular vision for saving the planet: Roll [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1562","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/salvaeco.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1562","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/salvaeco.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/salvaeco.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/salvaeco.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/salvaeco.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1562"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/salvaeco.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1562\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/salvaeco.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1562"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/salvaeco.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1562"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/salvaeco.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1562"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}