https://padlet.com/kaliematherly/jn9sx16gdstj4sfi This timeline shows how consumerism is imbedded into American culture. en-us 2022-02-04 18:55:08 UTC 2026-03-21 11:26:16 UTC hello@padlet.com kaliematherly https://padlet.com/kaliematherly/jn9sx16gdstj4sfi/wish/2030003189 American soldiers returned home to a country quite different from the one they had left. Wartime production had helped pull America's economy out of depression, and from the late 1940s on, young adults saw a remarkable rise in their spending power. Jobs were plentiful, wagers were higher, and because of the lack of consumer goods during the ware Americans were eager to spend.]]> 2022-02-04 19:00:07 UTC https://padlet.com/kaliematherly/jn9sx16gdstj4sfi/wish/2030003189 kaliematherly https://padlet.com/kaliematherly/jn9sx16gdstj4sfi/wish/2030004813 Allowed many young families to purchase their own homes, often located in rapidly expanding suburbs.]]> 2022-02-04 19:01:18 UTC https://padlet.com/kaliematherly/jn9sx16gdstj4sfi/wish/2030004813 kaliematherly https://padlet.com/kaliematherly/jn9sx16gdstj4sfi/wish/2030009803 In 1932, some 250,000 households lost their property to foreclosure. A year late, half of all U.S. mortgages were in default. The foreclosure rate stood at more than 1,000 per dat]]> 2022-02-04 19:04:51 UTC https://padlet.com/kaliematherly/jn9sx16gdstj4sfi/wish/2030009803 kaliematherly https://padlet.com/kaliematherly/jn9sx16gdstj4sfi/wish/2030013236 Which began purchasing and refinancing existing mortgages at risk of default. HOLC introduced the amortized mortgage, allowing borrowers to pay back interest and principle over twenty to thirty years instead of the then standard five-year mortgage that carried large balloon payments at the end of the contract.]]> 2022-02-04 19:07:03 UTC https://padlet.com/kaliematherly/jn9sx16gdstj4sfi/wish/2030013236 kaliematherly https://padlet.com/kaliematherly/jn9sx16gdstj4sfi/wish/2030017078 Levitt & Sons planned a community for returning WWII veterans. Regarded as the archetype for postwar suburbs throughout the country.]]> 2022-02-04 19:09:59 UTC https://padlet.com/kaliematherly/jn9sx16gdstj4sfi/wish/2030017078 kaliematherly https://padlet.com/kaliematherly/jn9sx16gdstj4sfi/wish/2030058390 The increased mobility offered by the automobile, suburban development began to fill in the star-shaped city created by streetcar lines. Development on the periphery became more dispersed as workers were able to commute longer distance to work, as businesses moved away from the center city, and as factories, warehouses, and distribution centers were able to locate outside the railroad corridors due to the increased use of rubber-tired trucks.]]> 2022-02-04 19:39:06 UTC https://padlet.com/kaliematherly/jn9sx16gdstj4sfi/wish/2030058390 kaliematherly https://padlet.com/kaliematherly/jn9sx16gdstj4sfi/wish/2030059014 2022-02-04 19:39:35 UTC https://padlet.com/kaliematherly/jn9sx16gdstj4sfi/wish/2030059014 kaliematherly https://padlet.com/kaliematherly/jn9sx16gdstj4sfi/wish/2030059464 2022-02-04 19:39:59 UTC https://padlet.com/kaliematherly/jn9sx16gdstj4sfi/wish/2030059464 kaliematherly https://padlet.com/kaliematherly/jn9sx16gdstj4sfi/wish/2030065255 by Henry Ford's Ford Motor Company, which introduced electric motors to the then-well-known technique of chain or sequential production. Craft Production started to decline and craftsmanship along with it.]]> 2022-02-04 19:44:23 UTC https://padlet.com/kaliematherly/jn9sx16gdstj4sfi/wish/2030065255 kaliematherly https://padlet.com/kaliematherly/jn9sx16gdstj4sfi/wish/2030069441 Mass Production of tanks, airplanes, ambulance and munitions. WWI was the first conflict to benefit from this fast and efficient means of mass production. The US government enlisted auto manufacturers to help crank out airplanes and engines, spearheading production. 
These World War I-era production systems laid the groundwork for factory processes in place today—from Germany’s highly efficient car factories to China’s fast-moving consumer technology plants. Now as global centers of manufacturing shift to new emerging markets in Latin America and Asia, the movement of assembly lines continues to wind on, snaking its way onto ever more factory-room floors.]]> 2022-02-04 19:47:47 UTC https://padlet.com/kaliematherly/jn9sx16gdstj4sfi/wish/2030069441 kaliematherly https://padlet.com/kaliematherly/jn9sx16gdstj4sfi/wish/2030072583 2022-02-04 19:50:20 UTC https://padlet.com/kaliematherly/jn9sx16gdstj4sfi/wish/2030072583 kaliematherly https://padlet.com/kaliematherly/jn9sx16gdstj4sfi/wish/2030073275 2022-02-04 19:50:52 UTC https://padlet.com/kaliematherly/jn9sx16gdstj4sfi/wish/2030073275 kaliematherly https://padlet.com/kaliematherly/jn9sx16gdstj4sfi/wish/2030074769 2022-02-04 19:52:05 UTC https://padlet.com/kaliematherly/jn9sx16gdstj4sfi/wish/2030074769 kaliematherly https://padlet.com/kaliematherly/jn9sx16gdstj4sfi/wish/2030115632 Inclusion of the Motor Vehicle in Master Suburban Plans]]> 2022-02-04 20:26:49 UTC https://padlet.com/kaliematherly/jn9sx16gdstj4sfi/wish/2030115632 kaliematherly https://padlet.com/kaliematherly/jn9sx16gdstj4sfi/wish/2030170951 Formed gradually as a result of ocean or marine pollution gathered by ocean currents. It occupies a relatively stationary region of the North Pacific Ocean bounded by the North Pacific Gyre.]]> 2022-02-04 21:22:59 UTC https://padlet.com/kaliematherly/jn9sx16gdstj4sfi/wish/2030170951 kaliematherly https://padlet.com/kaliematherly/jn9sx16gdstj4sfi/wish/2030175330 Before the first municipal dumps appeared on the map in the 20th century, humans either burned their garbage or buried it on the outskirts of town to avoid disease. This landfill is considered the first modern, sanitary landfill of its kind, and future landfills followed suit.]]> 2022-02-04 21:28:16 UTC https://padlet.com/kaliematherly/jn9sx16gdstj4sfi/wish/2030175330 kaliematherly https://padlet.com/kaliematherly/jn9sx16gdstj4sfi/wish/2030177564 Each year we produce nearly 300 million tons of plastic and by 2050 there will be more of it than fish in our oceans by weight. ]]> 2022-02-04 21:30:39 UTC https://padlet.com/kaliematherly/jn9sx16gdstj4sfi/wish/2030177564 kaliematherly https://padlet.com/kaliematherly/jn9sx16gdstj4sfi/wish/2030180137 Unless CO2 emissions drop significantly, global warming will make the Amazon barren, the American Midwest tropical, and India too hot to live in by 2500.

https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2021/10/climate-change-could-make-some-areas-of-earth-uninhabitable-by-2500/ ]]> 2022-02-04 21:33:46 UTC https://padlet.com/kaliematherly/jn9sx16gdstj4sfi/wish/2030180137 kaliematherly https://padlet.com/kaliematherly/jn9sx16gdstj4sfi/wish/2030183155 The first-ever domestic goal to reduce food loss and waste. The goal seeks to cut food loss and waste in half by the year 2030]]> 2022-02-04 21:37:03 UTC https://padlet.com/kaliematherly/jn9sx16gdstj4sfi/wish/2030183155 kaliematherly https://padlet.com/kaliematherly/jn9sx16gdstj4sfi/wish/2030187992 2022-02-04 21:42:46 UTC https://padlet.com/kaliematherly/jn9sx16gdstj4sfi/wish/2030187992 kaliematherly https://padlet.com/kaliematherly/jn9sx16gdstj4sfi/wish/2030194928 Legally binding international treaty on climate change. ]]> 2022-02-04 21:51:04 UTC https://padlet.com/kaliematherly/jn9sx16gdstj4sfi/wish/2030194928 kaliematherly https://padlet.com/kaliematherly/jn9sx16gdstj4sfi/wish/2030196394 2022-02-04 21:52:48 UTC https://padlet.com/kaliematherly/jn9sx16gdstj4sfi/wish/2030196394