Five Things to Say to a Teen With a Shopping Habit
TweetPin It As back-to-school season approaches (and with it back-to-school shopping season), you may find that your teenager suddenly turns from a perfectly well behaved and responsible young adult to...
View ArticleTips for Sustainable School Lunches
TweetPin It In some parts of the country, you may be lucky and be in a school district that is working to create healthier, more natural and more sustainable school cafeteria lunches. But in most...
View ArticleEco Teen Advice: How to Start an Environmental Club at Your School
TweetPin It The youth generation is becoming more and more eco-friendly, and that’s a great thing. In many high schools, junior highs and even middle schools, environmental clubs for students already...
View ArticleHow Pets Can Teach Your Kids About Environmentalism
TweetPin It Are you a parent debating whether or not to get your child a pet? There are certainly pros and cons in both directions – but one that you may not have considered is that pets can actually...
View Article10 Ways to Get Your Teen to Let Go of Holiday Consumerism
The association of consumerism with the holiday season is, unfortunately, something that society begins to instill in individuals as early as young childhood. By the time the teen years roll around,...
View Article10 Opportunities to Raise Postconsumer Children: The High School Years
Learning to separate from the consumer machine isn’t much different than learning other languages in that the earlier you begin the more fluent you’ll be in the language of postconsumerism. That’s why...
View Article10 Opportunities to Raise Postconsumer Children: The College Years
Learning to separate from the consumer machine isn’t much different than learning other languages in that the earlier you begin the more fluent you’ll be in the language of postconsumerism. That’s why...
View ArticleThe Best College Majors If You Want to Change the Planet
This month, hundreds of thousands of lucky young adults will head off to college (and are hopefully doing so without having to strip their finances to the bone or go into un-repayable debt). More so...
View ArticleThe Hidden Consumerism of … Higher Education
This month at Postconsumers, we’re shining the light on some activities, hobbies, niches or even social norms that are ridden with consumerism but are often thought of as being postconsumer...
View Article7 Easy Ways to be Green in High School
We get it. For many high school students, being green isn’t the top priority. Particularly in today’s day and age, there’s so much stress for your average high schooler that the state of the planet...
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