I'm tired of consuming more than I create

What are we financially and energetically buying into as we consume?

Earlier this month my love and I spent a week back in Mexico City. We catsat in a friend’s treasure-filled apartment, perched at the top of an enormous historic home like a treehouse. The perfect space for morning writing and other creative fun, I thought upon entering.

There was an oversized desk formed by a big, polished slab of wood. A full-sized picn…