Conscious gear buyer

Unintentional hypermaterialism.

"Ha Nick – I was just going to say that I seem to be buying gear while unconscious more often these days."

What color is your hair — is it blond?

Sorry, couldn't resist :)

There's also Nomadic stoves, the guy who mentored under Fritz, to take over production of the Bushbuddy. He says on his site that:

"The entire stove is handcrafted in USA with 100% of the raw materials made here in the US from the stainless steel all the way down to the packaging, tape, paper for the instructions, and even the printer ink. There is absolutely nothing that is outsourced."

If we were all super-conscientious about justice, fairness, animal rights, environmental impact, pesticides, GMO, etc ad infinitum, and had the ability to do an excruciatingly thorough cradle-to-grave analysis of all the products we buy and use (backpacking and otherwise), we wouldn't buy anything.