are you up to the challenge?
With a simple mission statement, “To live a more sustainable lifestyle by consuming less, cutting back on waste and learning the difference between wants and needs in our consumer culture,” BuyNothingNew.org encourages the utmost efficiency in personal spending, consumption, and waste, by discouraging mainstream consumerism. With over twenty thousand followers on Tumblr, the site (which freely admits to not being the originator of the movement), has inspired change in supporters and started a dialogue among critics. Last year, in a successful city-wide effort to promote reuse and recycling, Sydney, Australia even devoted the month of October to buying nothing new and retreating from retail.
