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In spite of the memoir's anti-consumerism message, a barrage of Eat Pray Love merchandise has hit the market.
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WATCH VIDEO: Eat, Pray, Love, and Shop?
Eat, Pray, Love, Shop?
Elizabeth Gilbert's best selling memoir Eat Pray Love opened on the big screen this weekend with its message that genuine happiness doesn't come from blind consumerism.
But Sony Pictures seem to be flatly contradicting Gilbert by unleashing a tsunami of merchandise that suggests we find inner peace through purchasing. From three new Fresh Perfumes to high-end Eat Pray Love travels tours, movie-themed jewelry to an entire range of ethnic trinkets from the Home Shopping Network.
Via: Walletpop
Automotive X Prize: Western Washington University
Damien Somerset reports from the Automotive X Prize, where entry #45 from Western Washington University is ready to take to the track.
Via: Damien Somerset
Greenest Schools
Sierra Magazine is betting on it with its list of the Top 20 greenest schools in the country. While Stanford made the list, as did Harvard, the number one went to Vermont's Green Mountain College with gets it power and heat from biomass and biogas—that's cow power people.
Via: Treehugger
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