Center for a New American Dream
https://www.facebook.com/newamericandream
Contact: newdream@newdream.org
P.O. Box 797
Charlottesville, VA 22902
Mission is is to improve well-being by inspiring and empowering all of us to shift the ways we consume. We work with individuals, institutions, businesses, and communities to conserve natural resources, counter the commercialization of our culture, support community engagement, and promote positive changes in the way goods are produced and consumed. New Dream seeks to change social norms around consumption and consumerism and to support the local movement of individuals and communities pursuing lifestyle and community action. The Center for a New American Dream (now "New Dream") was founded in 1997 by a group of forward-thinking activists and philanthropists who sought to draw greater attention to the links between individual action, social justice, and broader environmental impacts, and between excess materialism and negative impacts on human well-being, including children’s development. With its founding, New Dream sparked a new and unprecedented national conversation on materialism, living in balance, and the hidden costs of a high-consumption society. The organization's focus on the intersections between consumption, environmental degradation, and quality of life have made it truly unique among environmental and social justice organizations.