Green consumerism : an A-to-Z guide / Juliana Mansvelt, general editor.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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

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.

English.

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