Use Less Stuff — The ULS Report

The ULS Report ("Use Less Stuff") started off as a primitive bimonthly web publication in 1994. Five years on, in 1999, it decreased frequency to quarterly. There were two last-gasp issues in 2000, and then it was dormant for 8 years. In 2008, a new issue came out, followed by another for the first quarter of this year. Page 4 of that phoenix-like 2008 issue has an editorial about plastic bags — a topic I posted about here yesterday. It doesn't follow the same logic I did, and it nicely expands the scope of the situation quite a bit, yet arrives more or less in the same place. And I'm OK with that. The more of us there are that are heading in more-or-less the same direction, the less overall resistance we're going to face and the more easily change will happen — unless we get caught up in sniping about the little things that divide us instead of working with the enormous things that unite us. (Well, that was nearly Obama-esque, wasn't it? Maybe I've got some lingering inauguration giddiness.) There are new people getting inspired every day to start looking for this kind of knowledge about how to address consumer bloat, so I'm glad The ULS Report is back. It presents generally straightforward info in digestible chunks... not necessarily bleeding-edge, but it doesn't have to be to be effective. Having said that, however, those waters can and sometimes do run deeper: Currently on the Use Less Stuff homepage, you'll find links to peer-reviewed LCI Studies on the consumer packaging for tuna, coffee, and milk.