Sentences with phrase «with ethical consumerism»

My issue with ethical consumerism is not that it exists.

With ethical consumerism — whether you're buying fair trade, or local, or organic — you are impacting that invisible hand of the marketplace.

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but not enough is being said on youtube about workers in the fashion industry, human rights and how we are given the opportunity, every day, to vote for, or against them with our money... Ethical fashion and consumerism in general is so important and I feel it needs a lot more awareness than it currently has.

Through an extensive display of ephemera, including letters to Hugh Hefner and private collectors, glossy magazine advertisements, personal musings and sketches, My American Dream appears as a kind of bellwether for the art world's symbiotic relationship with consumerism, corporate sponsorship (a relic of another economy), and the market — political and ethical concerns that could not have been expressed in the sculptural objects she had made up until that point.

As Wicker says, «According to the lore of conscious consumerism, every purchase you make is a «moral act» — an opportunity to «vote with your dollar» for the world you want to see... Making series of small, ethical purchasing decisions while ignoring the structural incentives for companies» unsustainable business models won't change the world as quickly as we want.»

«Consumer democracy» means treating the voter as a consumer, whereas «ethical consumerism» means treating the act of consuming or buying as an act with the potential to create change.

Having posted on why corporate fat cats love ethical consumerism, and then followed up with a discussion of why voting and shopping are not the same thing, Kristen Marzocca over at Sustainable Speak posted a response in defense of ethical consumerism.

The other day I posted that corporate fat cats love ethical consumerism, taking issue with the idea that «every time you spend a dollar, you are casting a vote.»