ABSTRACT
How does thinking about geography and place1-and the political and economic relationships between people and places globally-impact my own consumption? Everyday consumption and participation in the money economy connects consumers to a wide range of places where other people live, work, and die. Consumption begins with the biophysical and culturally shaped places of production, and the social and environmental conditions surrounding human labor. Extraction, production, consumption, and waste-each of these processes, and the points in between, connects consumers to a great many places and socioecological conditions that are generally and sometimes purposefully obscured from the consumer. An ethic of place requires that I know something about how my consumption is connected to other people and places, and that I endeavor to act, however imperfectly, on this knowledge.
