I spent this year’s Spring Break in Utah with a group of 11 other University of Michigan students, most of whom I hadn’t met before. We embarked on a trip with the Michigan Backpacking Club, and had ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. @selfcarebeautyyy via TikTok, @glamzilla via TikTok, @maiphammy via Instagram In a recent TikTok video with over 21 million views, ...

In the last few years, a new trend has emerged on social media: De-influencers. Instead of selling, de-influencers encourage their followers to stop buying things they don't actually need.

Professor of Marketing at the Anderson School of Management, Catherine Roster, provides insight into the marketing world of overconsumption and a shift in mindset to sustainability long-term. Roster, ...

Nikoosh Carlo makes many valid points about climate change mitigation (“It’s time to do a 180 in our thinking about the climate crisis,” Dec. 24, Opinion). But, like most opinion pieces about this ...

Is it me, or has overconsumption gotten even worse this past year? I’m amazed by the number of content creators still doing hauls after hauls on Instagram. And then some post what they buy every month ...

The last few weeks of the year are always a special time — for shopping. According to the National Retail Federation, a United States trade group, Americans will spend nearly $1 trillion on clothes, ...

What prompted me to reflect on consumerism and especially the extent of over consumerism was a recent conversation with an old friend. She was dressed in all the designer brands – head-to-toe labels, ...

As the Los Angeles Port faces record backlogging of some 200,000 shipping containers, Californians are looking at a holiday shopping season that seems to promise more empty store shelves and gifts ...