Module 9 Consumer education - APCEIU

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Sustainable consumption incorporates global issues of poverty, gender, human right, fair trade, appropriate development, peace and conservation - all those issues that contribute to a sustainable future - into the criteria for ethical purchases.
Sustainable consumption requires everyone - individuals and families, schools, hospitals, companies and government departments - to make efforts to think critically about ways of reducing the impacts of their consumer activities. However, these decisions need to be encouraged and supported by political and economic reforms; both 'top-down' and 'bottom-up' change is necessary. As UNESCO states: A willingness to change one's lifestyle or pattern of consumption is essential but insufficient in itself to bring about societal change. Similarly, one's action as a citizen, no matter how responsible and far-sighted, is inadequate if one's individual behaviour and lifestyle are wasteful or destructive. Sustainable development requires both individual enlightenment and responsibility and appropriate policies and action by public authorities and the private sector. If, for example, an individual wishes to use public transportation to reduce urban congestion and pollution, this choice can be effective only if such transport exists and, for most people, will become habitual only if the it is both economic and convenient. In short, the move toward sustainable lifestyles is not merely a matter of individual choice; it also requires collective action and responsibility. Source: UNESCO (1997) Educating for a Sustainable Future: A Transdisciplinary Vision for Concerted Action, paragraph 92, 95-96.
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Introduction As with issues of citi
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OECD (1997) Sustainable Consumption
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Population - Whose Problem Source:
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Page 11 and 12: World Bank economist, Herman Daly,
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Page 27 and 28: Why are the Resources Impacts of No
Page 29 and 30: Thus, while consumption may be a ca
Page 31 and 32: Wants Wants are the goods and servi
Page 33 and 34: Globalisation Globalisation is more
Page 35 and 36: Changing and Improving Products and
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Page 43 and 44: Q15: What is the size of your Ecolo
Page 45 and 46: The American Footprint ... Estimate
Page 47 and 48: Compound Footprinting The most robu
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Page 51 and 52: Country Population (1995) The Ecolo
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Page 57 and 58: Towards a Definition There are many
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Page 67 and 68: Q23: Explain how you could adapt th
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Page 71 and 72: The work-and-spend cycle Alienation
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