Our Mission:
Here at Conscious Consumerism we believe that through purchasing power we, as consumers, can make a difference. Every time we make a purchase we are making a choice -- a choice to either perpetuate the dominant, exploitative system of consumerism or to support a system which is sustainable and socially responsible. We believe that through positive buying we can advance ethical production processes, and with enough participation, that we can take global action and move away from reliance on unsustainable and exploitative products.
Conscious Consumerism:
What is conscious consumerism and why do we care?
Conscious consumerism is known by many names such as ethical consumerism, green purchasing, moral purchasing, and green consumerism (among many others), and is a form of consumer activism. By making educated purchases that take into account environmental impacts, exploitation of workers, and other negative externalities that occur along the chain of production we can support good businesses and incentivize other businesses to adopt ethical practices. Every purchase we make serves as a vote towards a better future, so make it count.
Tools:
This website is non-profit and a hub for all goods produced in an ethical and sustainable way. The primary role of this site is as a virtual marketplace, where online shoppers can consume consciously with just the press of a button. Other features of this website serve to provide news and updates about company-based purchasing—companies that conscious consumers may want to boycott. A useful tool that this website offers is through Ethical Consumer and is a ethics measurement tool for companies: http://www.ethicalconsumer.org/ethicalcompanyratings.aspx. Additionally, you can join this site as a member and choose to be on our mailing list, in which we send out weekly spotlights and specials on various local, organic, eco-friendly, fair-trade, socially responsible, and charitable products and crafts.
Why "Marketplace":
Dictionary.com's definition:
"An open place or a covered building where buyers and sellers convene for the sale of goods; a marketplace: a farmers' market."
Here at Conscious Consumerism, while we do serve to make making ethical choices easier, we are more than just a screen at the other end of your mouse. We want to engage with you and create our own community. Please, head on over to "Get Involved" and join our Conscious Community!
How We Help:
In today’s society the average consumer has little-to-no knowledge of how the products he/she consumes come about. Consumers are often unaware of, or worse, apathetic towards, the production and in turn, exploitation, that goes into the products that they consume. Today, consumer culture is at an all time high, in which consumers can purchase goods with just the click of a button and have no knowledge of, or concern for, the negative externalities against workers, communities, and the environment that their uninformed purchase perpetuates. Yet this is not entirely at the consumer’s fault. Corporations do not want their costumers to see the negative and exploitative aspects that go into the production of their goods and especially, into keeping those goods at a competitively low price. This website, therefore, serves to promote transparency in product production and easy access to goods that are made in sustainable and exploitation-free ways.
Corporations do not want us to see the exploitation of workers, overseas sweatshops, and environmental consequences such as carbon emissions and waste dumping that are often a part of the supply chain. Since corporations work to keep these production chains hidden, Consumer Conscious has the crucial job of unveiling these injustices. Here, we do the legwork so you don't have to.
What is conscious consumerism and why do we care?
Conscious consumerism is known by many names such as ethical consumerism, green purchasing, moral purchasing, and green consumerism (among many others), and is a form of consumer activism. By making educated purchases that take into account environmental impacts, exploitation of workers, and other negative externalities that occur along the chain of production we can support good businesses and incentivize other businesses to adopt ethical practices. Every purchase we make serves as a vote towards a better future, so make it count.
Tools:
This website is non-profit and a hub for all goods produced in an ethical and sustainable way. The primary role of this site is as a virtual marketplace, where online shoppers can consume consciously with just the press of a button. Other features of this website serve to provide news and updates about company-based purchasing—companies that conscious consumers may want to boycott. A useful tool that this website offers is through Ethical Consumer and is a ethics measurement tool for companies: http://www.ethicalconsumer.org/ethicalcompanyratings.aspx. Additionally, you can join this site as a member and choose to be on our mailing list, in which we send out weekly spotlights and specials on various local, organic, eco-friendly, fair-trade, socially responsible, and charitable products and crafts.
Why "Marketplace":
Dictionary.com's definition:
"An open place or a covered building where buyers and sellers convene for the sale of goods; a marketplace: a farmers' market."
Here at Conscious Consumerism, while we do serve to make making ethical choices easier, we are more than just a screen at the other end of your mouse. We want to engage with you and create our own community. Please, head on over to "Get Involved" and join our Conscious Community!
How We Help:
In today’s society the average consumer has little-to-no knowledge of how the products he/she consumes come about. Consumers are often unaware of, or worse, apathetic towards, the production and in turn, exploitation, that goes into the products that they consume. Today, consumer culture is at an all time high, in which consumers can purchase goods with just the click of a button and have no knowledge of, or concern for, the negative externalities against workers, communities, and the environment that their uninformed purchase perpetuates. Yet this is not entirely at the consumer’s fault. Corporations do not want their costumers to see the negative and exploitative aspects that go into the production of their goods and especially, into keeping those goods at a competitively low price. This website, therefore, serves to promote transparency in product production and easy access to goods that are made in sustainable and exploitation-free ways.
Corporations do not want us to see the exploitation of workers, overseas sweatshops, and environmental consequences such as carbon emissions and waste dumping that are often a part of the supply chain. Since corporations work to keep these production chains hidden, Consumer Conscious has the crucial job of unveiling these injustices. Here, we do the legwork so you don't have to.
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