Local Spotlight: Life Unplastic Promotes Sustainability in Gainesville
Gainesville’s very own plastic-free shop is ready to help you live more sustainably.
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Feeling Overloaded with New Makeup Launches? Same, But Here’s How I Navigate the Pressure to Shop
I love makeup, but someone's gotta say this.
Queer Eye is Problematic
Queer Eye is truly an amazing show. Every episode has me cheering, crying, and laughing all in the episode span of 40 minutes. If you are...
Christmas without Consumerism?
Worried about your savings account this year? Christmas doesn't have to be all about the money.
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The Importance of Small Business Saturday & Shopping Local
Each year, the Thanksgiving holiday weekend brings with it the concept of excess. Excess food, excess television—and in the last decade—...
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So Whose Responsible For Cleaning Up The Planet Anyway?
Just because some people live less sustainable lives than you does not mean you get a free pass to damage the environment.
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Euphemisms. They're All Around Us.
Almost everything we see when we look around us is a lie, and we are being manipulated at all times. I don’t want to sound that cynical,...
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How Rom-Coms Change How We See the Real World
The ugly truth does exist.
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American Consumption: The Overview
Are we heading towards a Hunger Games-like future?
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Throw Out Your Feminist T-Shirts
Seriously. Throw them in the trash (but actually, please recycle). Or do one better, boycott the brands trying to sell you feminist t-...
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Black Friday Ruins Thanksgiving
Thanksgiving is a holiday in which people get to celebrate the things and people they are truly thankful for. It’s a holiday when family...
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Why Christmas Needs to Wait
Let Halloween do it's thing.
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Gal Gadot and American Holidays
Two weeks ago was definitely one of the busiest weeks of my life as I had both midterms and lots of ROTC training events. In all my...
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Why is Consumerism so Prominent in Today’s Society
After reading “My Life with Things” by Chin, I started thinking about how much “stuff” I own, most of which is bought brand-new from chain...
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The 5 Best Places to Shop For Feminist Merchandise
By: Leila M Via That Cheap Bitch In my last article for HerCampus , I talked about how companies are using feminism to exploit their...
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What My Hatred of Online Shopping Says About Me as a Person
I’ve been thinking a lot about online shopping lately. I don’t really know why. Maybe it’s because I’m becoming increasingly aware of the...
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Change Your Shopping List, Save the World!
While you may not think about it day to day, the things that you purchase have a huge impact on the environment. Because we don’t see how...
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Cork or Capped? Which Wine You Should Be Buying
Will you enable the destruction of one of the Earth's most biodiversified ecosystems or will you put a cork in it?
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Let's Not Forget About "Love" In This World Of Chaos
Do we care more about our things than our relationships?
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GlobeIn World: Changing the Way We Buy
Note: This is not a sponsored post or an advertisement. When we go shopping, we don’t exactly pay attention to where each item is made. We...
