Consumerism bad, consumption good, abusing credit terrible, but in the battle of credit card ad campaigns sending a message that would make me want to use their card, American Express wins the battle with their new Members Project!
Where Discover Card BOMBED for their blatant brainwashing-themed “Buy More and Do So Soullessly” campaign and LG bit [...]
… Amazon.com that is. Don’t buy your books through your local bookstore. Order it online instead!
For the record, I am not trying to bash buying from your locally-owned independent bookstore. For instance, in previous posts, I have promoted locally-owned bookstores for getting your goods. And August 23rd (SATURDAY, AS IN GET OVER THERE BECAUSE THAT’S [...]
Gas prices have nixed my willingness to order delivery food any longer.
Last Thursday, Marc and I decided I would order myself chinese food for dinner, which thrilled me, as I rarely get to eat the stuff… Marc hates it. It was convenient, however, for we were travelling that weekend and wanted no mess to clean [...]
Literally, the granite countertop you stand over and breathe over may be leeching radon… poisonous (like lead) radon, right into the air of your home and the lungs of your family.
According to an article in Nat Geo’s The Green Guide, radon is not just poisonous, but it happens to be the number two cause of lung [...]
…or is Discover Card just one troll in the jungle of jerks advocating over-spending, under-consumption, throw-it-away-and-buy-a-new-replacement mindless drivel?
Have you seen their new commercial? It makes me sick.
First, you are full of it.
When the first words of your commercial are “We’re a nation of consumers… and there’s nothing wrong with that,” I KNOW you KNOW what [...]
So, after having other Green Grounded posts about getting a dozen unsolicited phonebooks last year (here and here), one phonebook of which is still lying in my trunk, I got an email from a very greenie colleague, NBC 17 Reporter Laura Barron, that Yellow Pages have gone green and you can register to STOP RECEIVING unsolicited phonebooks!
Score!
So you [...]
Perhaps those of you who used to frequent my other url (blogs.wncn.info/aallen) or even stop in occasionally have noticed that Green Grounded is no longer updating.
I’ve been in the process of creating my own blog ~ registered my domain, took entirely too much time figuring out what things like “root directory” and “hosting” actually mean [...]
