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Shopping to save: green consumerism and the struggle for northern Maine

[journal article]

Harrison, Blake

Abstract

Between 2001 and 2003, Roxanne Quimby-then the sole owner of a natural personal-care products company named Burt' Bees-invested millions of dollars of her company' profits in tens of thousands of acres of forestland in northern Maine. Her intention was to... view more

Between 2001 and 2003, Roxanne Quimby-then the sole owner of a natural personal-care products company named Burt' Bees-invested millions of dollars of her company' profits in tens of thousands of acres of forestland in northern Maine. Her intention was to donate that land to the United States government on behalf of a controversial national park proposed for the region-the Maine Woods National Park. Quimby' actions set off sharp debates between policy makers, environmentalists and residents of northern Maine. As this article suggests, those debates were informed in part by their association with green consumerism. When consumers purchase ‘environmentally friendly’ products like those made by Burt' Bees, they typically envision their actions as having positive consequences for places associated directly with the production and consumption of that product. In this case, however, profits from a green consumer product were reinvested outside its immediate commodity chain, thereby implicating green-consumer decisions in a politics of identity and landscape control beyond that product' lifecycle. This paper explores that process, suggesting that even the most well-intended consumer choices can carry social and environmental consequences into new and perhaps unexpected terrain. When we shop to save, we can never be quite certain of what it is that we are saving.... view less

Document language
English

Publication Year
2006

Page/Pages
p. 395-420

Journal
Cultural Geographies, 13 (2006) 3

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1191/1474474006eu365oa

Status
Postprint; peer reviewed

Licence
PEER Licence Agreement (applicable only to documents from PEER project)


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