After discussions, our group decided that we would focus our blog post for the weekend on Consumerism.
Originally, I was not really sure what consumerism is exactly but after looking into it and doing more research I realized that it is the concept that the consumption of unnecessary goods is what helps our economy.
A family friend of mine works at the North Carolina Museum of Natural Sciences, so I figured she would be a good person to talk with about the blog and the topic. The museum does a lot of things to help the planet and nature, one of which is the Planet Earth Celebration each year. During this day long event, people are encouraged to bring plastic grocery bags that are then braided and wrapped around a giant "plastic bag ball" that the Museum has created. This ball is supposed to represent the number of plastic bags that are used worldwide per minute - 1 MILLION. This ball is then used as a bowling ball to knock down pins that are made from Culligan Water Bottles. She mentioned to me the importance of not buying plastic water bottles and instead using re-usable ones. This is because it takes almost a half of bottle of oil to make each plastic bottle...which is ridiculous.
This whole Planet Earth Celebration is directed towards focusing on recycling products and also only buying organic, environmentally friendly products.
So not only does this idea tie into our main group topic, but it also helps partially diminish consumerism.
Here is the Museums website that talks a lot about the celebration that takes place yearly......http://naturalsciences.org/about-us/news/?select=1043
Also, if you "like" the North Carolina Museum of Natural Sciences facebook page, they are having a contest to see who is the most green and reuses and recycles the most.... http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=1446401502#!/naturalsciences
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