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. just to 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 a big house the opportunity to work for myself or my husband at my own company even though we. 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. 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 but a 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. and when i moved here i found there wasn't enough space for all my stuff so i allowed 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 because of. glad to see you go. i hung. it is wearing new things handbags and shoes as usual i'm not really you know i'm good just in to wear. all good clothes an entire neighborhood with the dresses and skirts in her closet most of them she has only worn once. because the kind needed 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 there are several shopping sprees says and they 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 bear stearns that i 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 guess 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 to. a money q. and. 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. if you accept as something as a gift you must be thankful for it and must feel you are duty 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 to her of morning habit that she began by giving away clothes and she like 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 so often 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 idea 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 unity 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 never noticed such a 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 got married. we wanted to break the mold in order to create a mechanism to allow for people to exchange ordinary everyday things but when others joined the project to give it inspiration i saw from my own experience that not only were people exchanging things they were also interacting so eager to meet in order to get rid of things they no longer needed each gift is a sign of sympathy for a stranger that's what's most important. shortages in russia gave way to a consumer boom about a decade ago at a time when you can buy anything you like older and her friends don't understand why they should wear secondhand clothes and deny themselves life's pleasures.

like millions of americans i've lost thousands of dollars in retirement funds and i haven't had as bad as many it's not just about them it's about me too. me man brown the ya gotta show. some. myths am. jeev otaku saying. you. need it.

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market why not count on the. find out what's really happening to the global economy with mike stronger for a no holds barred look at the global financial headlines tune in to conjure reports . yes. i'm taking these young pine trees that have already fallen to the ground. in the minute if american style. or. any leftovers from the construction would be used as far would there was. a month ago. his wife and their three sons left mosco 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 forest 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 chorus family before the onset of winter next on the docket is an eco post. we want to take a slow lease from the local authorities and build an ecological center which will take care of people living with psychological disorders. but then with the natural environment of this place will allow guests to recover from stress. and forget about their traumatic experiences and in general get a new lease of 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 just to show. such just having to hear to certain rules to live up to the expectations of society conform to accepted notions of. 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 facelets this means

using clay solutions with coloring agent instead of better paints and a mixture of paper sand and clay the place is plaster 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. of appearances it will last. plastering the natural kind of way helps us here 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 brick for his ego hotel

. i'm turning this plastic bottle into a brick. boardroom with to do this fairly inside warm clay. well then i cover it with a mixture of clay straw and hemp. then finally before dries out we wrap steel mesh around it to give it some extra strength. 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 thing 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 made a shopaholic named wolf the young woman i can turn training session with him on called how to live a thrifty life to visiting a psychotherapist as soon as he won't give up her addiction to to begin living together. it was only until quite recently that would be cramming our supermarket

trolleys 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 it's what you. pay you're treated like a customer you can even taste it saves. supermarkets hey you're not pestered with albertus most telling you to buy things in this particular place or urging 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 got rid of the electric kettle 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 on the last three hundred years. to this day the war is still tossing out unnecessary reminders of our past and also to the strappy top i bought a couple of years ago is one example of shopping addiction i haven't put 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 which collects second hand goods you bought and armani help out as volunteers and they also buy clothes for next to nothing. but it's a long history and i like it i like you t. is made a comeback i've lost weight. but i'm on has been trying

to visualize how they will leave town to settle somewhere close to nature but he's not sure a newborn is ready for that she thinks this kind of escapism would 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. i would things like that money shouldn't be an issue but then work itself out. you can get by in different ways but above all we must overcome our fears and weaknesses so. 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 ok 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. 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 olga the fact is that

anyone wishing to be chopping addiction will need every bit of determination they can muster all that old 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. the international time banks fight. with. anyone can open an account in our bank post and you can see some of them on the board. money is an odd obstruction. 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 a human being that's where we exchange something apart from money or. time 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. english teacher taught is of the ip 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 just among other things they've made repairs to my kitchen and i have also ordered a manicure pedicure and cleaning service. i have no problems with this although i

believe my service as a private tutor costs more to do you. a retired naval architect parties of her teachers fought as payment for two hours. when you're doing english has been my lifelong ambition it's all the more important as a time when people does it. 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. but i wasn't supposed to happen. so tell me he's killed.

by u.s. . troops just slippery. they have come to help build an eco settlement two hundred fifty kilometers from moscow the number of people wishing to escape the bustle of the metropolis has been growing lately. the land for the 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 discourteous 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 in darling i found some firewood a nice to be dried out. own lives. i hate. we're creating the opportunity to people to come here and see for themselves that life is possible outside of the city in their blood to their enthusiasm lasts a week you wolf is now missing her mother shower and her cozy warm bed mon has decided he is not yet ready to leave civilization he has unfinished business in the city teaching people how to live in harmony with nature and finding harmful addiction called consumerism. the sun rises over what seems like and lowest forest to here in new directions cry

for hundred kilometers north of light of all stalk as in much of the world it's disappearing at a catastrophic rate. mortgages both illegal and those finding ways to outsmart the system filing down the forest of the region for them profit goes well beyond the future of our planet and the result could be an ecological crisis the world wildlife fund for nature makes regular trips to help local rangers do what little they can to stop the logging but it's not easy lager set up trucks making them hard to reach in an already rough terrain and have mastered ways to jump through legal loopholes this is a nature reserve we're only sanitary logging of disease trees is allowed according to law and not a single berry can be picked but loggers like this use their sanitary logging permit to cut down absolutely healthy trees and sell the profitable timber over the

border in china we are on the hunt for illegal loggers and it's not going to be easy to forests. and our chances are slim now for now we can stay in our dreams but as soon as we find solid tracks we'll have to drop our wheels and get out silently in order not to scare the loggers off alexander some morning call has been a ranger for over twenty five years he can spend weeks at a time tracking a single group of loggers easier to work when snow falls in autumn it's impossible to find human tracks and even transport tracks are hard to see after hours of driving we get sent in the right direction by word of mouth you can see that the ground just soft here which means that the twelve the tractor trails are very fresh which in fact means that we need to be quite. or to not scare them off as we get closer. this team says they're legal but have no documents now xander can now call the police to take over his work here is done he

is overwhelmingly outnumbered there are too few rangers working in the promote the region and the w w f says the government isn't doing enough to stop it i guess the government now is a start of the new form or whole forest legislation so assume the pals and settle in regards a new forest court and according to be a little off for us that's the guys in waltham in the in the forest to the still forest courts still doesn't work just. as no one tries to stop them in just five years the force will be gone they'll sell it all to china what will the people who live after us do but it's a question more and more people are aware of today climate change and the safety of our environment as a whole are being discussed around the world and perhaps it's those small steps that might be a start to people living in harmony with nature. wealthy

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