The Ethical Consumer Group
The Ethical Consumer Group is a community based, not-for-profit network set up to facilitate more sustainable purchasing practices for consumers.
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- United Nations Development Programme
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Ethical Supermarket Shopping Guide 2010
Revised and expanded. Who's behind your shoppng?
The Guide to Ethical Supermarket Shopping has come out of a shared concern that many people, although eager to make changes in their buying habits for the better, do not have access to information to make informed choices.
Every time we buy something, the money we spend endorses a company and its activities, whether we like it or not. This guide provides information on the environmental and social record of the companies behind the brand names of common supermarket products, drawing from sources like Greenpeace, Choose Cruelty Free, Corporate Monitor, Responsible Shopper and Sustainability Victoria. The information allows evaluation of the social and environmental impact of these companies on the earth and our society, and gives insight into the ever-increasing concentration of company and brand ownership.
It also highlights broader issues of concern to all of us as consumers, providing practical advice and links to more information on topics like ethical investment, organics, natural cleaning, buying local, food additives and many more.
This guide is the completely revised, expanded and updated third edition, published in February 2010. It is specific to Australia, and allows you to make wiser choices in your purchases and open up a dialogue with companies. It also enables you to more fully understand the connection between how we act and what is going on in the world around us.
The guide's aim is to:
- inform shoppers of more ethical or less ethical choices in their buying
- empower people and create awareness about consumer power
- provide a means for consumers to give feedback to companies and government, and so encourage change
In doing this the publishers seek to make all information:
- freely accessible
- transparent and well sourced
- easy to use for the everyday shopper
All information has been based on the sources referenced in the booklet with a view to accuracy at time of printing, however, as is the nature of a guide such as this, changes become apparent almost immediately upon printing.
While the pocket guide is great for keeping in your bag for quick reference while shopping, updates to the the guide are regularly placed on the website of the Ethical Consumer Group, the publishers, so you can make changes in your pocket edition.
147 x 107 mm, 80 pages, paperback, indexed.
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