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Green consumerism is viewed by some in the green movement as an oxymoron. For others, it is the easy way to save the planet. Green consumers now have a huge variety of goods available for purchase that vary in the depth of the “greenness” of the product. Their consumer choices can make a difference in environmental effects. One effect is the “greening” of a growing array of products, although how green these products are varies significantly from one catalog product line to another.
Retailers spend billions of dollars each year distributing 17 billion catalogs through the mail because they believe that this form of advertising works. The catalogs come at a rate of 55 per person per year, which amounts to millions of tons of garbage, ...
- 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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