November 25, 2008
'Tis the Season...BUY NOTHING DAY IS COMING!
By
Katherine Dodds
What's new at HelloCoolWorld? We are getting ready to close our webstore for the annual BUY NOTHING DAY event. (Created many years ago by Vancouver artist and activist Ted Dave and taken up by Adbusters, now an international out of control anti-consumer activism day!) It happens when Americans traditionally start their post-thanksgiving shopping orgy that lasts until Christmas.
In these times, it does seem that unfettered consumption as a way of life has reached it's own bottom line. The day after BND we are going to be urging you to do a little more "Think-Buying" as now, it's more important then ever to support the progressive people, organizations, and causes that are also feeling the crunch as the financial crisis trickles down to their funders and donors making fund-raising more precarious.
We're thrilled to be working with Inter Pares this year on their alternative giving campaign -- Give Something Big! We're making it part of our Campaign 4 Corporate Harm Reduction.
The day after BND when our store re-opens we will be donating all profits from our webstore proceeds to their campaign. Watch this blog for updates on what we are up to in this season.
Tag(s):
Alternative Economics,
Campaign 4 Corporate Harm Reduction,
Hello Cool World,
Marketing,
The Corporation
Recent Blogs by Katherine Dodds:
|
 |
Katherine Dodds AKA "Kat" is the founder of Good Company Communications and HelloCoolWorld.com. Trained in renegade advertising & branding through her work with Adbusters in the '90s, Kat's early induction into the possibilities of the web-world was inspired by the term hypertext, which she immediately found comforting. She is dedicated to cause-related communication and to the development and use of tools that promote democratic processes.
|
