anti-consumption Archives - Shaping Youth

How Can We Use Media To Gift Without Buying?

December 11, 2011 by Amy Jussel 7 Comments

Update: Dec. 12, 2018 Open Call...for any and all ideas to give the gift of TIME to teachers, elders, family and friends and reduce consumption/increase heartfelt meaning in the process! Hit me up … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Consumerism, Counter-marketing, Emerging trends & STEM, Interactive Games, Marketing Shaping Youth, Media Literacy, Mobile Media, Apps & Gaming, Positive Picks, Pro-Social & Positive Picks, Shaping Youth Tagged With: anti-consumption, battling cancer, Buy Buy Baby, buy nothing, catalog shopping, CCFC, Coming of Age In a Crap Economy, commercial free, Consuming kids, consumption, critical thinking, don't buy it, eco literacy, family tradition, financial literacy, freebies, freecycling, gift of time, gift without buying, gifts, giving vs receiving, Good Night iPad, holiday debt, holiday rituals, kids gifts, Me to We, mindfulness, neuroscience of shopping, not buying it, regifting, shop til you drop, student debt, Think Geek, thought that counts, thrifty gifting, virtual gifting

Green Toys and Fun Finds With Big Kid Appeal: Ten Under $10 Pt. 2

December 22, 2009 by Amy Jussel 4 Comments

Dec. 23, 2009 Shhhhhh...I'm snagging one of the new "Smencils" that just arrived today 'cause I figure 'less is more' and 'variety is the spice' when it comes to stocking stuffers...She doesn't need a … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Consumerism, EcoKids-Environment, Emerging trends & STEM, Interactive Games, Marketing Shaping Youth, Media Literacy, Nutrition & Wellness, Positive Picks, Pro-Social & Positive Picks, Shaping Youth Tagged With: 10 eco-friendly toys, adventure trading cards, anti-consumption, Baby Honu, budget, children, Digital, eco, eco literacy, eco-friendly, EcoChilds Play, edu tech, education, Elf-Island, Everett Peacock, frugal, geckos, Get 'Em Outside, Gill McBarnet, Good Quests, green, green goods, green shopping, green toys, Hawaii, islanders, kidlit, leatherback turtles, literacy, migration, My Daddy Taught Me to Surf, Nature-Deficit-Disorder, NCLI, New Dream, outdoor play, penguin, Plan Toys, reach and teach, Richard-Louv, Room to Read, stocking stuffers, surf, Sustainability, Tammy Yee, Teens Turning Green, Ten under $10, The Goodnight Gecko, The Great Turtle Race, The Parrot Talks in Chocolate, TikiBar, Tiwaka, Toys, TTG, Turtles, Xeko

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