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towards the territories in question. doesn't add lines and coming up next back to basics a special report on which r t explores consumerism in moscow. the month is one of the millions of young hopefuls who came to moscow in search of success wealth and fame at the age of twenty six he was already in charge of the p.r. division of a major corporation we should write a list of the drinking coffee on one of the top floors and looking down at a city sprawling below. it was an exhilarating experience. to get a sense that everything was in your power that you work part of such a big brand. by thirty he'd gotten married fathered a child and been deforest but one day he realized that all those ambitions or alternately pointless this excess full p.r.

specialist suddenly knew that he himself had fallen victim to a massive p.r. campaign truly i was getting nowhere in my life it was a monotonous drum brake systems of women wine and shopping and then came a new sign for those women one and shopping and it just went on and on. the big city is a matrix this siphons often a-g. it's all about money and routine office work. they browse shop windows as if in a trance shopping is their drug they suffer from a great form of addiction but these young women prefer to be up to their ears in debt rather than give up their insatiable appetite and even the brits i can't possibly pass by beautiful interests i often say to myself don't squander money i

hope and just look around but leave it with the goods i've spent all my money but i feel good that indeed i'm happy. olga is thirty one years old she works as a clerk for one thousand dollars a month and runs a single room flat where she lives with her boyfriend but her idea of happiness goes far beyond the small apartment. i'd like to have the big house the opportunity to work for myself or my husband at my own company. and like to have enough money to buy anything i want. olgas dreams are fuelled by advertising in a society bent on consumption everybody is supposed to think alike and go on a buying spree without a second thought about why they are buying something. you know months novel and no longer wanted to be part of the rat race he set up

a so-called eco loft with like minded friends the group rents a rundown communal flats not far from the kremlin the idea is to use that as the springboard for a radically new lifestyle they formed an anti-consumer community with the motto reduce reuse recycle you can make a bicycle out of six hundred seventy recycled tins and you can save six hundred fifty kilograms of oil by recycling one ton of plastics the young men take containers loaded with plastics glass paper and metal to a recycling station it's not. normal in russia to separate garbage man and his friends are guided by the wisdom of the indian guru mahatma gandhi he urged people to bring about the sort of change they wanted to see in the world and a man has given up his prestigious corporate job now his mission is to show others the way to a clean lifestyle. when i moved here i found there wasn't enough space for all my

stuff so while out to others to do some of the things even that didn't make much of a dent i sold a few things but gave most of it away. to see you go oh i. am free but it is wearing new things handbags and shoes as usual i know really you know i am good just in to where. all good clothes an entire neighborhood with the dresses and skirts and her closet most of them she has only worn once. because the kind needs a different pair of shoes to mention every address these issues don't mention any of this. i rushed to the shop as soon as i get my salary i can spend it all there and then there are several shopping sprees said to me empty my pockets

for example i spent my entire salary on a pair of shoes made of. these beautiful things are so classy and comfortable i just couldn't pass them as di when i saw them. a shopaholic is someone who will stand in front of a full closet firmly believing that there is nothing to wear these people relieve nervous tension by heading to the mall but often regret making the purchases afterwards. each friday after work hundreds of strangers get together at this plaza to give and take gifts a new social networking site offers everything from t. shirts to washing machines for free all contributed by users the idea is that the people who keep the necessary things or normally throw them away can give them to others instead of. my kid played with it and know we want to give it to someone else. you can make

a gift to some service the museum. a money mentioning. a community of donors has created a virtual second hand shop giving things away free of charge a utopia created with the help of modern technology could become a reality if millions rather than hundreds behave in the same manner. that if you accept as something as a gift you must be thankful for it and must feel you are juicy bound to do likewise and share what you have with somebody else because you are in a sense of responsibility that must prompt you to do so without being courted by anyone. site creator might seem kind of cool of is a product manager and professional economist by training when he was still university student he came to the conclusion that there should be alternatives when it comes to money and trade daria is a fashionable woman without any worries when it comes to money she joined the

community to bring a stop tour of morning habit that she began by giving away clothes and she likes giving gifts so much that she began offering things that were less material at one point she posted a notice inviting people to share a trip to the countryside with her. she wrote that she was sick and tired of spending all her weekends in the city and mentioned that anyone who wants to head out of town is welcome to do so in a car there's a cool video attached. this is always there was a huge response when he said they liked the deer but my plan wasn't just to pass the time with people. told them over the phone some fellow travelers. but smoke seem turned up and

away but only as in you he was the guy behind the guest side so the of us united to meet him intrigued me. she would be fresh from the beauty salon sporting a new dress and stiletto heels meanwhile he'd be wearing large glasses and corduroy trousers along with an impressively untidy head of hair but that was all three years ago. so i was pretty scruffy wasn't i. daria i've never noticed such glamorous girls driving around as. cause. they came from different social spheres and had no common interests aside from the desire to improve the world if only just a little two and a half years later maxime and got married but we wanted to break the mold in order to create a mechanism to allow for people to exchange ordinary everyday things but when

others join the project to give it inspiration i saw well from my own experience that not only were people exchanging things they were also interacting so easy to meet in order to get rid of things they no longer needed each gift as a sign of sympathy for a stranger that's what's most important. still shortages in russia gave way to a consumer boom about a decade ago at a time when you can buy anything you like old and her friends don't understand why they should wear secondhand clothes and deny themselves life's pleasures. culture is that so much different and there is a huge decision on the flip side of the time to leave should the protest and even

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. but i'm taking the trees that have already fallen to the ground. in the american style. or that any leftovers from the construction news just fun would that our. a month ago. his wife and their three sons left moscow to live in a forest now their home consists of a tb dwelling and a small flipping tent they buy food in a nearby village the force provides them with fuel and they get water from the spring solar batteries are their main source of electricity. they intends to build warm corners for his family before the onset of winter next on the docket is an eco

hotel. we want to take. from the local authorities and build an ecological center which takes care of people living with psychological disorders. natural environment of this place will allow guests to recover from stress. and forget about their experiences and in general. of the life. alexi and the rufina came to moscow from a provincial town in search of a better life they found employment with a leading magazine and rented a flat in the city center but their first son was born with an illness and they had no wish to stuff him with modern medication choosing instead to cut out chemicals from their daily life. yeah. i was overjoyed to know that i had cast away

a heavy load of totally unnecessary things. such just having to lead here to certain rules to live up to the expectations of society conform to accepted notions of high class or the middle class and so want and so forth what's the difference you need to be what you are rather than put on a show. alexei's still travels to moscow for work after giving up his magazine job he went into the business of giving apartments ecological facelift this means using clay solutions with coloring agent instead of paints and a mixture of paper sand and clay a place this pastor natural materials are only just beginning to be fashionable in russia so i would say he hasn't got many customers so far but for him it's not just business it's

a life philosophy. of the plaster work in this room and even throughout. most of the walls. appearances it will last. plastering the mantra. helps us see of materials time. refuses to be defined as an idealist on the contrary he thinks people need to be as progressive as he is for instance he's used a combination of old and new technologies to make the first break for his ego hotel . i'm turning this plastic bottle into a brick. he's got the room with it to do this fairly inside warm clay. but then i cover it with

a mixture of clay straw and him. then finally before dries out we wrap steel mesh around it to give it some extra strength. in the. the idea that children need a lot of money is a myth. what they really need are healthy and happy parents the kind that provide them with tender love and care. i think sane and rufino hope that these simple truths will be obvious to their children don't fear starting from scratch don't be ashamed of being on fashionable and you don't have to rely on money. life is like in a forest. many see a says living to the extreme or things that were just plain crazy because we have no proper home but when we found ourselves in this forest i felt so calm

so fissured addys and happy that i realized that i hadn't experienced anything like it for a long time. former p.r. director of a month albelin used to earn three thousand dollars a month now he's learned to make do with not more than three hundred six months ago he made a shopaholic named you will see the young woman mike and her training session with him on called how to live a thrifty life to visiting a psychotherapist i think he won't give up her addicted to begin living together. it was only until quite recently that it would be cramming our supermarket chillies full obviously it was more convenient that way because if you completely stuffed the fridge then you have no worries on that front the trouble is that this lifestyle generates lot of rubbish especially plastic containers most of them wished to pay you are treated like a customer you can even taste the tapes it's just one can supermarkets hey you're

not pestered without burtis most telling you to buy things in this particular place origin you to buy three items instead of one. they eat at home rather than going to restaurants or cafes instead of visiting clubs this one time. with friends who like them don't smoke or drink they prefer to look forward to the future we've got rid of the electric cattle in favor of a stove top one with a whistle electric cars waste a lot of electricity detergent has given way to mustard powder makes five bricks from plastic containers they can be used any construction. such bottles can be used to help build fences the steel mesh and concrete is poured over them. the last three hundred years. to this day the war is still tossing out unnecessary reminders of our past also to strappy top i bought a couple of years ago is one example of shopping addiction i haven't put on one

thing in the past six months or so i've even given away more than fifty enormous bags filled with all sorts of things to say nothing of she's clayson various other things. bags are taken to a charity called the zebra which collects second hand goods do both and i'm on help out as volunteers and they also buy clothes for next to nothing. but this is a job with a long history and i like it i like you t. is made a comeback to his i've lost weight. and among has been trying to visualize how they will leave town to settle somewhere close to nature but he's not sure the board is ready for that she thinks this kind of escapism will just be another romantic adventure. you question is not what you want to escape from it's where you settle down that's

important. you should find a space where you're free to build a house. far would things like that money shouldn't be an issue but the work itself out. you can get by in different ways but above all we must overcome all fears and weaknesses. and kicking the shopping habit is hard one radical method is to go cold turkey and just go someplace where there are no shops although he's agreed to conduct an experiment by spending a day in the forest far from shopping. welcome to our forest. guests can sleep here in this tent you too can spend the night on this soft cozy bed inside they and rufino welcome to their ego hotel even though it's still under construction they want to show her that you don't need that much to be happy. these are your clothes. i haven't worn any of these shirts and suits

since i brought them from the city. you know you don't have much. well yeah but i actually never even knew where these few things. here you don't need an iron to iron something if you want to smooth out a shirt you just take an ordinary garden sprinkler spray the shirt evenly and expose it to the sun and wind. olga begins to suffer from withdrawal after only a couple hours of fresh air. so i don't really want to stay here any longer i want to go home. this session of natural treatment has not helped the fact is that anyone wishing to be chopping addiction will need every bit of determination they can muster all that ole girl wants now is to buy a new pair of shoes and forget about her nightmarish adventure into the forest.

guests pay with time not money the delicacies served in this restaurant ideally each guest is supposed to pay back with the service provided to a stranger these services are advertised on the international time bank site. it was moved to the. troops anyone can open an account in a bank post and you can see some of them on the board. money is an old abstraction . it creates the impression that you can buy anything you like with it. when i pay you money for something i'm quite oblivious to the fact that you're a human being. once i've paid the money i'm no longer responsible for anything as far as you're concerned. nor do you have any claims on me. but i'm always mindful of the fact that i'm dealing with human beings that's why we exchange something apart from money. to turn food restaurant is

a temporary art installation but for some the concept of bartering has become key to survival in the midst of a global economic crisis. this big. english teacher type is a v.i.p. customer of the time bank she earns an average of twenty five hours a month by teaching english to private students and they can exchange those hours for any of the services listed in the bank's database. among other things they've made repairs to my kitchen. i have also ordered a manicure pedicure and cleaning service. and i have no problems with this although i believe my service as a private tutor costs more would you. a retired naval architect parties of her teachers flot as payment for two hours coalition. when you don't doing english has been my lifelong ambition it's all the more important as

a time when people visit foreign countries and there are a lot of resources available in foreign languages. no doubt i am retired my pension can cover the cost of such lessons. and i'm on persuaded the war to leave the city to see how it feels when you don't have money for both of them it's truly a departure from their previous lives. so i wasn't supposed to happen. so you tell me he's killed. just slippery. they have come to help build an eco settlement two hundred fifty meters from moscow the number of people wishing to escape the bustle of the metropolis has been growing lately. the landfill project has been leased from the government free of charge for forty nine years

it's hoped that a whole community with its own farms will settle here within the year. started for people believe that if you want to build a house you need to buy all the necessary building materials but in fact there's no need to buy anything until you can find everything locally that there. was no if there are plans to create an education center here for tourists. people will come here with their children to take in the air and taste the local honey. i'm on and go through a lengthy ordeal and their first attempts to find their place in the world after leaving behind urban comforts. the day i'm going i found some firewood you need to be dried out first. oh no. i hate. we're creating the opportunity for people to come here and see for themselves that life is possible outside the city in your blood to their enthusiasm lasts

a week you wolf is now missing her mother hard shower and her cozy warm bed her mom has decided he's not yet ready to leave civilization he has unfinished business in the city teaching people how to live in harmony with nature and finding a harmful addiction called consumerism.

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