Escape from Affluenza

Escape from Affluenza is a 1998 PBS 56-minute documentary film produced as a sequel to the 1997 documentary Affluenza. While the original concentrates on affluenza--consumerism and materialism in modern society, the sequel focuses on how to avoid this.[1] It looks at stories of how to reduce debt, stress, time-pressure, and possession-overload.[2]

Anti-consumerism
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Theories and ideas Affluenza Alternative culture Anti-Capitalism Autonomous building Billboard hacking Bioeconomics (biophysical) Buddhist economics Buy Nothing Day Collaborative consumption Collapsology Commodification Commodity fetishism Commons Commune Compulsive buying disorder Conspicuous consumption Consumer capitalism Consumerism Criticism of advertising Culture jamming Degrowth Do it yourself DIY ethic Downshifting Ecofeminism Ecological economics Eco-Marxism Ecovillage Ethical consumerism Environmental justice Feminism Feminist political ecology Freeganism Gift economy Green consumption Hyperconsumerism Local food Microgeneration Overconsumption Planned obsolescence Political Ecology Post-consumerism Post-growth Post-normal science Right to repair Self-Organization Simple living Slow Food Spectacle Steady-state economy Subvertising Sustainable consumer behaviour Sustainable consumption
Notable works Walden The Theory of the Leisure Class Brave New World The Affluent Society One-Dimensional Man The Society of the Spectacle (book · film) The Consumer Society: Myths and Structures Steal This Book Small Is Beautiful To Have or to Be? Future Primitive and Other Essays Fight Club (novel · film) Escape from Affluenza No Logo Profit over People: Neoliberalism and Global Order The Cultural Creatives Affluenza: The All-Consuming Epidemic Evasion The Corporation Surplus: Terrorized into Being Consumers So, What's Your Price? What Would Jesus Buy?
Organizations and groups Adbusters Crass CrimethInc. Deep Green Resistance Democracy Now! Earth Liberation Front Fifth Estate Freecycle Green Anarchy Institute for Social Ecology Monthly Review Rage Against the Machine Reverend Billy The Venus Project The Yes Men 350.org
People André Amar André Gorz Bruno Clémentin Donella Meadows Edward Goldsmith E. F. Schumacher Erich Fromm Federico Demaria Filka Sekulova François Schneider Giacomo D’Alisa Giorgios Kallis Henry David Thoreau Ivan Illich Ivo Rens Jacques Grinevald Jean Baudrillard John Ruskin Mauro Bonaiuti Nicholas Georgescu-Roegen Noam Chomsky Paul Ariès Paul Goodman Pierre Rabhi Serge Latouche Vincent Cheynet
Related social movements Alter-globalization Amateurism Anarcho-communism Anarcho-primitivism Anarcho-punk Anti-capitalism Anti-corporate activism Anti-globalization movement Diggers (theater) Eco-socialism Environmentalism Food Not Bombs Green anarchism Green left Green politics Hippie Libertarian socialism Neo-Luddism New Left Occupy Wall Street Postmodernism Punk Situationists Slow movement Social anarchism Social ecology
See also Works about consumerism Advanced capitalism Advertising Barter Capitalism Consumer behaviour Consumption (economics) Consumption (sociology) Cooperative Counterculture Cultural hegemony Ecological economics Economic materialism Economic problems Frugality Green economy Gross National Happiness Heterodox economics Influence of mass media Informal sector Intentional community Left-wing politics McDonaldization Mutual aid Natural resource economics Non-monetary economy Permaculture Post-materialism Productivism Shopping Social movements Subsistence economy Sustainability Sweatshops Veblen good Workaholic

Escape from Affluza
Narrated by	Wanda Urbanska
Release date	1998 (1998)
Country	United States

The cast includes Wanda Urbanska as the host and Cecile Andrews, author of "Circle of Simplicity".[3]

References

"Escape from Affluenza: Program on Simpler Living on PBS". Pbs.org. Retrieved 2012-02-10.
"Escape from Affluenza | Bullfrog Films: 1-800-543-3764: Environmental DVDs and Educational DVDs". Bullfrog Films. Retrieved 2012-02-10.
Escape from Affluenza on IMDb

Simple living
Practices	Barter Cord-cutting DIY ethic Downshifting Dry toilet Fasting Forest gardening Freeganism Frugality Gift economy Intentional community Local currency Low-impact development No frills Off-the-grid Permaculture Regift Self-sufficiency Subsistence agriculture Sustainable living Sustainable sanitation Veganism Vegetarianism Voluntary childlessness War tax resistance WWOOF
Religious and spiritual	Asceticism Aparigraha Cynicism Detachment Distributism Jesus movement Mendicant Mindfulness Monasticism New Monasticism Plain dress Plain people Quakers Rastafari Temperance Testimony of simplicity Tolstoyan movement
Secular movements	Back-to-the-land Car-free Compassionate living Environmental Hippie Open Source Ecology Slow Small house Tiny house Transition town
Notable writers	Wendell Berry Ernest Callenbach G. K. Chesterton Duane Elgin Mahatma Gandhi Richard Gregg Tom Hodgkinson Harlan Hubbard Satish Kumar Helen Nearing Scott Nearing Peace Pilgrim Nick Rosen Dugald Semple E. F. Schumacher George Skene Keith Henry David Thoreau Leo Tolstoy Valluvar
Modern-day adherents	Mark Boyle Rob Greenfield Jim Merkel Peace Pilgrim Suelo Thomas Varg Vikernes
Media	"Anekdote zur Senkung der Arbeitsmoral" Escape from Affluenza The Good Life The Moon and the Sledgehammer Mother Earth News The Power of Half Small Is Beautiful Walden
Related topics	Affluenza Agrarianism Amateurism Anarcho-primitivism Anti-consumerism Appropriate technology Bohemianism Consumerism Deep ecology Degrowth Ecological footprint Food miles Front Porch Republic Green anarchism The good life Global warming Hedonophobia Intentional living Itinerant Low-technology Nonviolence Peak oil Sustainability Work–life balance

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