Will the credit crunch bring a deeper shift in consumer attitudes?
On the train to New York, the anthropologist Grant McCracken sees a luxury ad defaced.
The New York Times reports that the mood on the charity circuit has turned against conspicuous consumption. The piece quotes the director of a market research company,
'Though the recession was always talked about in economic terms, we felt really strongly that, in fact, it was a crisis of culture'.
Meanwhile, Yan Pei-Ming's $100,000 portrait of Bernie Madoff remains unsold.
Water is at the heart of farmers’ struggle to survive in Benin
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This is a re-post from Yale Climate Connections by Megan Valére Sosou
[image: A photo of rows of plants that are climbing up stakes in the
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