Better Consumer Choices Make a Difference

According to Widmeyer Polling, 71 percent of American consumers would purchase socially and environmentally responsible products if they were easy to find.  Fortunately, the Center for a New American Dream offers a new website to help consumers do just that.

The Conscious Consumer website helps consumers make responsible consumption choices to lighten their social and environmental "footprint"... ultimately helping protect communities and the environment around the world. 

In addition to offering links to on-line and local retailers of green products and goods that benefit communities (instead of multinational companies), the Conscious Consumer site provides:

• Detailed information about the products we buy, where they are made and who makes them;
   
  
• Guidance to help you make the choices that will make the biggest difference to communities and the environment;
   
  
• Environmental track records of companies;
   
  
• And consumer guides to home energy and information on electronics and appliances -- products that contain metals extracted from hardrock mines that negatively impact communities around the world. 

Whether you're looking for a place to recycle your computer, more information on the companies you buy from, or other guides to responsible consumer behavior, the Conscious Consumer is a good place to start.