A Rebel With a Cause is an online journal by Deja Dragovic, who says, I’m always traveling, even when still, and always have a thousand voyages in mind, some to the places I don’t even know exist, dimensions I don’t yet realize. My life sometimes feels like a roll of 35mm film, balancing between the experienced and yet-to-be-experienced. Or I just like to keep the wheel turning—passionate about adventure, education, and information and racing with the trends, online and off.
Deja orchestrates WARP Place sister site Jaguar Ambassadors Gang (JAG). Find her also on Facebook here and JAG on Facebook here.
The Choices We Make, by Deja
In recent years there have been louder and wider warnings about energy conservation, urging everyone to minimize consumption of resources by reducing the need for excessive energy use. Still, we consume. Still, we demand. We shop mindlessly, rampantly, grabbing sales...
Shifting From Conspicuous To Conscious Consumerism
The richest sentence I’ve ever read said that “wealth is not the possession of abundance, rather it’s the freedom from need”. Unfortunately, as long as the pursuit of money drives our society, and is synonymous with success, recognition, and even respect, we will...
You Are Not Your F!@* Khakis
“You are not your job. You’re not how much money you have in the bank. You are not the car you drive. You’re not the contents of your wallet. You are not your f’n khakis” (Palanhiuk. Fight Club) Why do we accumulate ‘stuff’? One side of the argument is that we have...
I Shop, Therefore I Am a Product Myself
Here’s an idea: brands should pay us to wear their clothes because we are walking advertisements: GAP across a chest, JUICY across a butt, a swish on a backpack, a puma on a foot – they are all free ads (no, not even free, they’re all endorsements: hey, this company...
You’re a Minimalist? What Does That Even Mean?
A few years ago I read a book called ‘Voluntary Simplicity’ (1977) by Elgin & Mitchell, which is about people who are living a simpler life, and why they are doing it. What’s the appeal there, hello, it’s the Millennium! NOT to be confused with the back-to-nature...
(Im)material, (in)valuable, (ir)replaceable
When the few possessions that have certain value to us go missing (are stolen, lost, damaged) – the problem lies not in replacing them or recovering their financial value. It is emotional value – and especially their worth in terms of memory or intellectual property...
Consumers of the World, Unite!
There are more and more collaborative and shared consumption projects in North America and the EU, and more people embrace them, or, at least, are curious about them. And some examples are really creative and fascinating! A reminder: collaborating consumption is a...