Contents -- Preface -- 1 - Confronting Consumption -- I - The Consumption Angle -- 2 - Consumption and Its Externalities: Where Economy Meets Ecology -- 3 - Individualization: Plant a Tree, Buy a Bike, Save the World? -- 4 - Commoditization: Consumption Efficiency and an Economy of Care and Connection -- II - Chains of Consumption -- 5 - Distancing: Consumption and the Severing of Feedback -- 6 - Consumption and Environment in a Global Economy -- 7 - The Distancing of Waste: Overconsumption in a Global Economy -- 8 - Environmentally Damaging Consumption: The Impact of American Markets on Tropical Ecosystems in the Twentieth Century -- III - On the Ground -- 9 - In Search of Consumptive Resistance: The Voluntary Simplicity Movement -- 10 - Jamming Culture: Adbusters' Hip Media Campaign against Consumerism -- 11 - Think Globally, Transact Locally: The Local- Currency Movement and Green Political Economy -- 12 - Caveat Certificatum: The Case of Forest Certification -- 13 - Citizens or Consumers: The Home Power Movement as a New Practice of Technology -- 14 - Conclusion: To Confront Consumption -- Notes -- Contributors -- Index.