Offer a public showing of videos such as Affluenza, and Escape from Affluenza. Copies of these videos are available on loan from Simple Living Initiatives, Center for Energy & Environmental Education, University of Northern Iowa. (For more information, contact us.)

Partner with your local library, county extension service, Farmer's Market or Community Supported Agriculture group, or a local industry to display one or more three-panel, table-top displays, available on loan from the Center for Energy & Environmental Education. There are three displays: one about clutter, titled, "If stuff taking over your life?"; another about financial matters, titled "Are you in control of your money?"; and a third about food issues, titled "You are what you eat. What are you eating?".  The only cost to use the exhibits is one-way shipping (about $15-25). To view the displays, click here. (For more informtion, contact us)

Help organizations such as TV-Free America, the Center for a New American Dream (CNAD), and Use Less Stuff (ULS) with their efforts. TV-Free America offers a Turn Off the TV Week campaign, the CNAD offers campaigns such as Kids and Commercialism and Simplify the Holidays, and ULS sponsors an annual Use Less Stuff Day.

Organize a style show featuring second-hand clothes, with a narrative describing the cost of the outfits and types of places (such garage sales, consignment stores, and Goodwill) where the clothes were purchased.

Simply mention waste reduction every time you talk about recycling, and belp your audiences understand the importance of prevention.

Click here to learn facts on consumption & waste.
Click here to go back to Waste Reduction:  Addressing the Overlooked "R" curriculum page.

For more information about the curriculum or to order a copy, contact:

Simple Living Initiatives
Center for Energy & Environmental Education
University of Northern Iowa
Cedar Falls, IA 50614-0293

ceee@cns.uni.edu . . . or . . . 319/273-2573