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Magazines
Published periodically, magazines have been issued as serial publications since 1731, when The Gentleman's Magazine was first published in London. They are often financed by newsstand purchase, subscriptions, and advertising. The distribution costs for magazines are similar to those of newspapers and are normally paid for by the retail price of the magazine. The bulk of the operating costs and profits from magazines are met by advertising revenues.
Many shoppers' magazines are distributed free of charge. Shoppers' magazines can include periodicals devoted to real estate sales and automotive sales. Some are targeted to people seeking tourist information. The goal is to reach consumers who seek the goods or services offered in the advertising information. This can be thought of as a green activity because it provides ...
- Green Consumer Challenges
- Affluenza
- Air Travel
- Carbon Emissions
- Commuting
- Conspicuous Consumption
- Disparities in Consumption
- Dumpster Diving
- Durability
- Electricity Usage
- Energy Efficiency of Products and Appliances
- E-Waste
- Food Additives
- Food Miles
- Genetically Modified Products
- Greenwashing
- Healthcare
- Insulation
- Lawns and Landscaping
- Materialism
- Needs and Wants
- Overconsumption
- Pesticides and Fertilizers
- Pets
- Pharmaceuticals
- Positional Goods
- Poverty
- Pricing
- Quality of Life
- Resource Consumption and Usage
- Solid and Human Waste
- Super-Rich
- Symbolic Consumption
- Waste Disposal
- Windows
- Beverages
- Bottled Beverages (Water)
- Coffee
- Confections
- Dairy Products
- Fish
- Meat
- Poultry and Eggs
- Slow Food
- Tea
- Vegetables and Fruits
- Water
- Green Consumer Products and Services
- Adhesives
- Apparel
- Audio Equipment
- Automobiles
- Baby Products
- Books
- Car Washing
- Certified Products (Fair Trade or Organic)
- Cleaning Products
- Computers and Printers
- Cosmetics
- Disposable Plates and Plastic Implements
- Floor and Wall Coverings
- Fuel
- Funerals
- Furniture
- Garden Tools and Appliances
- Grains
- Home Appliances
- Home Shopping and Catalogs
- Homewares
- Internet Purchasing
- Lighting
- Linen and Bedding
- Magazines
- Malls
- Mobile Phones
- Packaging and Product Containers
- Paper Products
- Personal Products
- Recyclable Products
- Seasonal Products
- Services
- Shopping
- Shopping Bags
- Sports
- Supermarkets
- Swimming Pools and Spas
- Television and DVD Equipment
- Tools
- Toys
- Green Consumer Solutions
- Biodegradable
- Carbon Credits
- Carbon Offsets
- Certification Process
- Composting
- Consumer Activism
- Downshifting
- Ecolabeling
- Ecological Footprint
- Ecotourism
- Environmentally Friendly
- Ethically Produced Products
- Fair Trade
- Gardening/Growing
- Gifting (Green Gifts)
- Green Communities
- Green Consumer
- Green Consumerism Organizations
- Green Design
- Green Discourse
- Green Food
- Green Gross Domestic Product
- Green Homes
- Green Marketing
- Green Politics
- Local Exchange Trading Schemes
- Locally Made
- Markets (Organic/Farmers)
- Morality (Consumer Ethics)
- Organic
- Plants
- Product Sharing
- Public Transportation
- Recycling
- Regulation
- Secondhand Consumption
- Simple Living
- Sustainable Consumption
- Vege-Box Schemes
- Green Consumerism Organizations, Movements, and Planning
- Advertising
- Commodity Fetishism
- Consumer Behavior
- Consumer Boycotts
- Consumer Culture
- Consumer Ethics
- Consumer Society
- Consumerism
- Demographics
- Diderot Effect
- Environmentalism
- Fashion
- Final Consumption
- Finance and Economics
- Frugality
- Government Policy and Practice (Local and National)
- Heating and Cooling
- International Regulatory Frameworks
- Kyoto Protocol
- Leisure and Recreation
- Lifestyle, Rural
- Lifestyle, Suburban
- Lifestyle, Sustainable
- Lifestyle, Urban
- Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD)
- Production and Commodity Chains
- Psychographics
- Social Identity
- Taxation
- United Nations Human Development Report 1998
- Websites and Blogs
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