Consumerium
Consumerium is a not-for-profit project, developed under
GFDL licence, using
Wiki-software, to develop
free software and
infrastructure for storage, transport and display of product information to
consumers and
feedback to the producers to enhance the consumer experience, advance product development and to keep this planet as hospitable as possible in the future.
Website: http://www.consumerium.org/wiki/
Consumerium is proud to do most of its research work in Wikipedia to avoid redundancy and boost synergy.
Short timeline of Consumerium
List of Wikipedia articles listed as research work in Consumerium
These need most work:
- List of trade unions (Currently listing only UK, AU, FI, FR, NL)
- List of employer associations (Currently a stub with some info on AU, FI, FR, ME, NL, UK)
- Lists of companies
- List of who owns what (a skeleton at the moment)
- Economy of Earth (contains some interesting stuff, but it's not organised)
- List of company registers
These should be started:
- List of advertisement agencies (by country) (doesn't exist now)
- List of association registers (doesn't exist now)
- List of ethical funds (doesn't exist now)
- List of non-governmental organisations (doesn't exist now)
These are fairly complete:
Wikipedia:Wikiproject:
- Wikipedia:WikiProject Ecoregions
List of fairly complete wikipedia articles related to Consumerium
(From http://www.consumerium.org/wiki/Wikipedia. If these interest you, you might want to check Consumerium out.)
Understanding buying choices and their effects:
Understanding moral choices as expressed in the marketplace:
Directly relevant to consumerium mission, making actual moral buying choices:
- Slow Food - tied for third most relevant? buy local, organic, etc.
- Sweatshop - tied for third most relevant? often the target of
- Boycott - second most relevant? usually shorter term than
- Moral purchasing describes most exactly the consumerium.org mission
- local food
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