'ethical consumerism' is correct and can be used in written English.
You can use it when discussing how individuals, businesses, and states can reduce their ecological footprint through consumer choices. For example, "An increasing number of people are turning to ethical consumerism as a way to reduce their environmental impact."
Critics see ethical consumerism as a dangerous marketization of ethics whereby the values of wealthy consumers "go global," unfairly constraining the freedom of others.
Ethical consumerism entails two key shifts in how markets are conceived.
You might dismiss this kind of ethical consumerism as mere gesture.
It has many names: "buycotting," ethical consumerism, moral economics, latte activism, critical consumption.
It will also explore the trends towards ethical consumerism and increased regulation of financial markets spurred by the credit crisis.
Whether ethical consumerism becomes an effective means of economic governance in the postnational order remains to be seen.
The book focuses on five areas: how young adults make ethical decisions; what role consumerism plays in their lives; why they drink so much; why they have sex so indiscriminately; and why, despite optimistic claims that Barack Obama awakened young people in 2008 as John F. Kennedy did their parents or grandparents, they are in fact disengaged from civic and political life.
It's consumerism with an ethical edge.
Vatican officials said that he had chosen the Czech Republic for a mission central to his papacy: fomenting a continentwide spiritual revolt against what Benedict labeled Saturday as "atheist ideology," "hedonistic consumerism" and "a growing drift toward ethical and cultural relativism".
Of course, there is a growing movement of people everywhere to effect incremental, cumulative change, such as local cooperatives, ethical sustainability, ethical treatment of animals, environmental protection, responsible consumerism, community volunteerism, and so on.
Now, they must disentangle and consumerism must lead industry out of planetary and ethical degradation.
