Buy Nothing Day in Budapest
This video is part of cafebabel.com’s 2010-2011 cities feature focus on ‘Green Europe’, by ©Maximilien Van Aertryck - vimeo.com/maxvanaertryck , by ©Daniel Mandic
‘Buy Nothing Day’ (BND) - 24 hours dedicated to ‘examining the issue of over-consumption’ - has become one of the biggest campaigns to promote anti-consuming way of thinking all over the world, since its foundation in 1992 by an artist from Vancouver, Ted Dave. Also known as Black Friday, BND has been celebrated on the Friday immediately following one of the biggest shopping days in the US, Thanksgiving, while in Europe it is held in the last days of November. Other versions now include Buy Nothing
Christmas, Cyber
Monday (promoting online shopping), Advent
conspiracy (‘Worship Fully, Spend Less, Give More, Love All’) and Steal something
day. While broadcast media traditionally boycotts BND, cafebabel.com covered the event in one of Budapest’s biggest crossroads, the Blaha Luiza Square.
Translation: Daniel Mandić
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14/01/11
Updated on: 26/07/11
Tags : Green Europe on the Ground, Villes, shopping, Société, consommateurs, Budapest, Hongrie, écologie, style de vie.
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