Christian Science Monitor: The global energy crisis is overwhelming, but Americans are looking for ways to make small changes that add up. We install solar panels, buy hybrid cars, and turn down the thermostat. Yet when it comes to everyday shopping, we are conditioned to buy more than we need, new things made halfway around the world. Sometime within the last 100 years, we lost the power to dialogue with shopkeepers to define our own needs. Now, retailers “inform” us. This exact scenario was foretold by the …