Green consumerism : an A-to-Z guide /

Green consumerism : an A-to-Z guide / Juliana Mansvelt, general editor. - Thousand Oaks, CA : Sage, ©2010. - 1 online resource (xxxi, 525 pages) - The Sage reference series on green society ; v. 6 . - Sage reference series on green society ; v. 6. .

Includes bibliographical references and index.

About the editors -- Introduction -- Reader's guide -- List of articles -- List of contributors -- Green consumerism chronology -- Articles A to Z -- Green consumerism glossary -- Green consumerism resource guide -- Green consumerism appendix -- Index. Adhesives -- Advertising -- Affluenza -- Air travel -- Apparel -- Audio equipment -- Automobiles -- Baby products -- Beverages -- Biodegradability -- Books -- Bottled beverages (water) -- Carbon credits -- Carbon emissions -- Carbon offsets -- Car washing -- Certification process -- Certified products (fair trade or organic) -- Cleaning products -- Coffee -- Commodity fetishism -- Commuting -- Composting -- Computers and printers confections -- Conspicuous consumption -- Consumer activism -- Consumer behavior -- Consumer boycotts -- Consumer culture -- Consumer ethics -- Consumerism -- Consumer society -- Cosmetics -- Dairy products -- Demographics -- Diderot effect -- Disparities in consumption -- Disposable plates and plastic implements -- Downshifting -- Dumpster diving -- Durability -- Ecolabeling -- Ecological footprint -- Ecotourism -- Electricity usage -- Energy efficiency of products and appliances -- Environmentalism -- Environmentally friendly -- Ethically produced products -- E-waste -- Fair trade -- Fashion -- Final consumption -- Finance and economics -- Fish -- Floor and wall coverings -- Food additives -- Food miles -- Frugality -- Fuel -- Funerals -- Furniture -- Gardening/growing -- Garden tools and appliances -- Genetically modified products -- Gifting (green gifts) -- Government policy and practice (local and national) -- Grains -- Green communities -- Green consumer -- Green consumerism organizations -- Green design -- Green discourse -- Green food -- Green gross domestic product -- Green homes -- Green marketing -- Green politics -- Greenwashing -- Healthcare -- Heating and cooling -- Home appliances -- Home shopping and catalogs -- Homewares -- Insulation -- International regulatory frameworks -- Internet purchasing -- Kyoto Protocol -- Lawns and landscaping -- Leisure and recreation -- Lifestyle, rural -- Lifestyle, suburban -- Lifestyle, sustainable -- Lifestyle, urban -- Lighting -- Linen and bedding -- Local exchange trading schemes -- Locally made -- Magazines -- Malls -- Markets (organic/farmers) -- Materialism -- Meat -- Mobile phones -- Morality (consumer ethics) -- Needs and wants -- Organic -- Organisation for Economic Co-Operation and Development (OECD) -- Overconsumption -- Packaging and product containers -- Paper products -- Personal products -- Pesticides and fertilizers -- Pets -- Pharmaceuticals -- Plants -- Positional goods -- Poultry and eggs -- Poverty -- Pricing -- Production and commodity chains -- Product sharing -- Psychographics -- Public transportation -- Quality of life -- Recyclable products -- Recycling -- Regulation -- Resource consumption and usage -- Seasonal products -- Secondhand consumption -- Services -- Shopping -- Shopping bags -- Simple living -- Slow food -- Social identity -- Solid and human waste sports -- Supermarkets -- Super rich -- Sustainable consumption -- Swimming pools and spas -- Symbolic consumption -- Taxation -- Tea -- Television and DVD Equipment -- Tools -- Toys -- United Nations Human Development Report 1998 -- Vege-box schemes -- Vegetables and fruits -- Waste disposal -- Water -- Websites and blogs -- Windows.

This title covers the consumption, availability, and distribution of energy and other resources in the personal consumer environment.


English.

9781412973809 (electronic bk.) 1412973805 (electronic bk.) 9781452266190 1452266190 9781412996853 (cloth) 1412996856 (cloth) 1849727449 9781849727440

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