Sustainable consumption!

Even if we are simple consumers, we are affecting “chaotically” the Environment and participating – indirectly – in increasing Global Warming effects. It is our “duty” to be proactive consumers and act in a socially and environmentally responsible way: we have to look for sustainability. One way to do this is to have a basic knowledge of major environmental problems and concerns. Sustainable consumption tends to be formulated as follows:

• Choose energy and resource reduced products which were produced under socially acceptable conditions (often referred to as "fair trade" products).
• Where possible replace products by services and choose collective use of resources (such as car-sharing), and last but not least,
• Consume less.

If we as consumers do not increase our demand for sustainable products and services, and do not "buy" corporate efforts towards sustainability (thus modifying our consumption behavior) sustainability will not face a real breakthrough in the long run.