At Sustainability Cubed, we encourage you to make thoughtful purchases by considering what you really need, what your budget allows and the impact your purchases have on the environment and society.
Lower Impact Shopping
We suggest supporting local, low-impact companies that focus on quality rather than quantity. Read our reviews, recommendations and guides to find sustainable products and services near you.
Zero Waste
Zero Waste is a growing movement that encourages eliminating or reducing waste that would otherwise go to landfills.
We support the idea that the most sustainable thing you can do is stop purchasing non-essential items; instead reusing, repairing, recycling and upcycling what you have.
When you do make a purchase, consider the waste that may be created in the production and delivery process, the packaging, the supply chain and the impact your purchase has on the environment.
Read our guide to selecting sustainable products for the home that you can use as a checklist to be sure you're limiting your environmental impact when purchasing essentials.
Circular Economy
Like zero waste, a circular economy eliminates waste and pollution by circulating materials and resources. It's focused on renewable energy and resources while also working to regenerate nature.
These are the principles we search for when recommending products and services.
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Conscious consumption simply means to engage in the economy with more awareness of how your choices impact the environment and society as a whole. As a conscious consumer, every purchase reflects your core values and is an opportunity to vote for the world you want to see.
Conscious consumerism is sometimes also called ethical consumerism or green consumerism. All of these terms refer to taking a more mindful approach to buying and using products.
Ethical consumerism aims to harness the power of consumer choices to drive positive change in business practices, social justice, and environmental sustainability. It boycotts unethical products and businesses. It motivates businesses to use ethical and environmentally friendly means to run their businesses.
Shopping for green cleaning products and fair-trade coffee. Opting for a small electric vehicle instead of a gas-guzzling truck. Boycotting fast-fashion brands or companies that treat workers unfairly. Purchasing books from Black-owned retailers instead of from Amazon.
When enough consumers shop in an ethically conscious way, it can cause companies to take notice and address their supply chain practices. These changes can in turn help parents around the world earn a living wage and reduce the likelihood that their children end up in dirty, dangerous and degrading jobs.
These consumers base their purchasing decisions on ethical values – such as human rights, environmentally-friendly and sustainable production, and animal well-being – even if that means paying a little more for the products.
The benefits of ethical consumerism include environmental protection and health benefits, while challenges include higher costs and the need for behavior change. The benefits of ethical consumerism include supporting sustainable practices and promoting social responsibility.
Most people don't have the time to research ethical alternatives to the products and services they use daily, nor do they have the liberty or time to reject the accessible (and often unethical) options easily available to them.
There are myriad criticisms to be levied against ethical consumerism, ranging from the use of the free market to advance causes of justice to the claim that the onus of justice shouldn't and can't fall solely on individuals, from the fact that it's a privilege to be able to choose to consume ethically to the idea that ...
A sustainable ethic can be either anthropocentric or biocentric (life-centered). An advocate for conserving oil resources may consider all oil resources as the property of humans. Using oil resources wisely so that future generations have access to them is an attitude consistent with an anthropocentric ethic.
The roots of ethical consumerism are deep, but the tree has only recently begun to flourish. A confluence of factors has contributed to this rise. The digital age has ushered in unprecedented access to information, enabling consumers to peek behind the curtain of brand operations like never before.
Being ecologically conscience requires people to treat the environment with respect and not exhaust or over strip the environment of its capacity to support life. For example, not clearing a forest that is hundreds of years old to build an industrial complex reveals an ecological conscience.
Eco-friendly products made using natural materials and ingredients are better than those manufactured using plastics and synthetic materials, and/or chemicals and dangerous substances. Examples: toys made entirely of wood, clothes made of linen, hemp, wool, etc.
For example, environmentally conscious consumers who purchase a car may consider the car's impact on the environment. They may perceive that electric cars have better quality and produce less pollution. Therefore, these consumers may prefer to purchase electric cars. The logic is also similar in the food market.
An environmentalist is a person who is concerned with protecting and preserving the natural environment, for example, by preventing pollution. Synonyms: conservationist, ecologist, green, friend of the earth More Synonyms of environmentalist.
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