Buy Nothing Day

Event published by Green Action

Event date: November 28, 2009 11:00

Published by group: Group

Green Action

Tagged as: economic_crisis free_spaces

Briggate

Places: briggate ls1

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From http://www.greenactionleeds.org.uk/buy-nothing-day-09

Buy Nothing Day is trying to make people think about the goods they buy - think before you shop! We are NOT asking you to go without milk if you run out. Instead, before you buy think about where things come from, how they got here, what resources were used to make them and: do you REALLY need them?

The idea is to encourage people that instead of buying something for Christmas they could make something (see our alternative Christmas gifts for ideas). There is so much advertising saying BUY THIS we thought that there should be some saying BUY NOTHING.

Last year we had Christmas Carols, a free shop, food and all for free in Briggate. Lots of people interested in the concept and lots of cups of tea.

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