Okay, but what do you do. . . NOW? Okay. For better (we hope) or worse (oof!) BND 2006 is now behind us. But what about 2007? Here are a small handful of follow-up questions that we would like to invite you to discuss in our monyeless (Buy Nothing Cafe here: What exactly did you accomplish, learn in BND 2006? What were its impacts in your community (and beyond?)? And what do you have in mind for 2007? (Finally, what should we be doing here at (I)BND to be more useful to you and the others in the future?) It would be great if you would accept to share your experience with the others, so that we can learn and do better ourselves in the year to come.

Buy Nothing Days in brief

BND occurs in Canada and the United States on the day after the fourth Thursday of November each year (the day after the annual US Thanksgiving gorge and a major shopping spree) -- while in the rest of the world it takes place on the following Saturday (a major consumer event starting the run-up to Xmas, etc.) The intent of the Buy Nothing Day movement has since its origins the early nineties been to provide a period of respite from the rigors of the consumption economy, which is the main thing that dominates the media and perhaps a few too many of our daily life choices and aspirations. A pause for reflection. That's it. Each of us who does it, will do it in our own way. That's the "I" in I(nterenational) Buy Nothing Day: >>> Click here for more

(I)nterenational Buy Nothing Day Support Project

A wide-open, informal, semi-organized, cooperative international network set up in The Commons in 1994 --originally initiated here as Consumer Holiday but within a year quickly merged (unofficially of course) to complement the better organized and funded Adbuster BND initiative -- to support and encourage the BND projects at all levels and in all places. A cooperative "co-learning and sharing" space, making use of free leading-edge communications technologies in an attempt to advance thinking and practice on the world Buy Nothing agenda. >>> Click here for more

The Buy Nothing Movement

The Buy Nothing movement is a sprawling, disparate, diversified, 100% anarchistic self-organizing system. Nobody tells anyone else what to do (and even if they did it is unlikely that any of them would listen and obey). That's the state of play in the movement around the planet -- like it or not. At the same time the movement is nascent, growing and diverse. It can and should be extended and improved, and one of the ways of doing this will be to communicate what we have done and then listen to what others have to say and suggest. Even if we may not like it the first time around. >>> Click here for more

Language Help and Extensions

The BND movement is now literally world wide, and as you might well suspect once you get out of the English langue world, well, people use their own languages to communicate about them. We have done our best to accommodate this reality on this site. Thus on the World News pages we have cast our net for items picked up in Dutch, Italian, German, Spanish and Portuguese as well as the usual English. In most cases you will see that simple machine translations are available at a single click. In addition in an attempt to open up this site, we are linking quick machine language translations to each page of this site. In each case these appear in the internal left menu and their uses are explained here. >>> Click herefor more.

The Dialogues

This site is presently being geared up to host a wide-ranging public dialogue on past accomplishments (achievements and shortcomings) and possible future developments of and for the BND movement. This is a 'big house' discussion -- a space on the web where diversity is not only permitted but also actively encouraged. To this end the supporting libraries and communications structure is intended to serve as a space not only to lodge good ideas and joyful accounts of success, but also a place where people can turn for informed critical opinions and even challenging negative views of what we are all trying so hard to achieve. For more on this open project click here. >>> Click here for more

The Commons

Unconstrained by bureaucracy, economic interests or schedules, The Commons was set up on the Internet in 1988 to offer a wide open, world-wide, non-government forum, which has as its sole goal to contribute as best it can to improving our collective understanding and control of technology as it impacts on people in their daily lives. The IBND site is one of more than three dozen cooperative programs supported here. In June 2000 The Commons was awarded the prestigious Stockholm Prize for its accomplishments in support of a major sustainable development initiative with the City of Bogota. >>> Click here for more