"conscious consumption" is a correct and usable phrase in written English.
It is often used to refer to the practice of being aware of the environmental and social consequences of one's purchasing decisions. For example, "The company encourages its employees to engage in conscious consumption and make purchases that have a positive environmental impact."
"We can raise money even as we promote environmentally conscious consumption," he said.
The Levi's initiative underlines a fact that could keep cause marketing on track as conspicuous consumption becomes conscious consumption.
Conscious consumption refers to purchasing electronics from companies that do not buy products containing Congolese minerals from conflict mines.
Sixty-two andriCanadiancolleges colleges have already come out in support of conscious consumption of electronics.
But it is true that the rise of ethical shopping, or what US sociologist Juliet Schor calls "conscious consumption", has made limited headway in fashion.
This entry was posted in Education, Green living, Policy and tagged campus advocacy, Conscious Consumption, Consumer Activism, Human Rights, students on October 26, 2011 by Shelby Layne.
An assessment method that disregards the location of wood usage ignores any climate-conscious consumption and investment decisions impacting the CO2 footprint of a region or a country, rendering them irrelevant.
As one way to address this problem, Hynjung Lee's research investigates the effect of gratitude on a consumer's decision to engage in environmentally conscious, charitable consumption behavior.
But even more importantly, for the conscious consumer consumption is a necessary evil at best, and a scourge on the Earth at worst.
Instead of promoting consumerism and using metrics like GDP, move toward conscious collaborative consumption and metrics that focus on well-being like Gross National Happiness (GNH) and the Genuine Progress Indicator GPII, which is now being developed in about 20 U.S. states).
Eko-community, eko-conscious, eko-consumption … Ekocycle!
