"Hungry Planet" and "Material World"

[Julie5150]

Hungry Planet - book that covers 30 people across the world: what they eat in a week, rather embarassing (me being in the US) and quite interesting.
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/s...toryId=5005952


"Material World" Book that covers a guy's travels throughout the world - he asked people to empty their house of their belongings and pose with their possessions outside their home, quite fascinating.
http://www.menzelphoto.com/recent/geomw2001p1.htm

[US_Ranger]

Good thread.

We went over this in my world civilizations class. An Ameircan family generally eats more and has more **** than en entire community in a lot of countries.

I lived out of a bag for over a year and I rather enjoyed not having a lot of stuff. I try to not accumulate a lot of stuff. (minus the ol' computer)

As for food, I've been starved before and I didn't enjoy it so now I like to eat healthy and consume over 2,000 calories a day. Sorry........

[Rambo26]

the Melander family have some serious food in a week judging by the pic, damn Im hungry now

[Julie5150]

See how their items are laid out ... I wonder how much that reflects the way they do things every day.

simplistic
organized
and disorganized.

[The-Stig]

Originally Posted by US_Ranger

Good thread.

We went over this in my world civilizations class. An Ameircan family generally eats more and has more **** than en entire community in a lot of countries.

I lived out of a bag for over a year and I rather enjoyed not having a lot of stuff. I try to not accumulate a lot of stuff. (minus the ol' computer)

As for food, I've been starved before and I didn't enjoy it so now I like to eat healthy and consume over 2,000 calories a day. Sorry........

X2. The best days of my life were when I had the least number of material possessions.

[concept]

I would love to be so rich to see that material possession is of the least importance.