Do individual consumer choices make a difference in creating a more sustainable society?

by Nathan Creitz

There are some things for which I cannot trust the government to ever solve. One of those issues is environmental sustainability. I'm grateful that these issues of sustainabilit...read more

by Lana Evans

In my household alone, there are five people. My garbage has to be taken out daily. Years ago, my former husband went on a TV dinner kick. The kids and I joined in. I tolerated ...read more

by Baja Raquel

"Give a hoot, don't pollute." Although that statement gives away my age group, it is also a statement that defines how individual consumer choices make a difference in creating...read more

by David Chaves

June 4, 2008 | By Dave In Conservation, Environment, political | Well my fellow enviromericans..we did it. We have been preaching to the choir for a decade about the ludicro...read more

by Julia Hollingsworth

Every day, every single member of our society is exposed to hundreds, if not thousands, of advertisements. We are all told that if we buy this makeup, we will be as beautiful as...read more

by Michael Greaney

It has become popular in recent centuries to heap abuse on the free market. Nevertheless, the fact remains that the market mechanism is the only direct manner in which individu...read more

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by David Nuttle

Americans represent 05 percent of the global population, but consume some 24 percent of all resources. In many areas of the world, the U.S. is known as the "Consumption Empire,"...read more

by Lindsey Feldman

To say that the choices of individuals does not matter is basically the equivalent to saying it would be fine for people to throw garbage and chemicals into a pristine lake and ...read more

by Tabren Wyldstar

Does a single stone make an avalanche? Sounds like a silly question, right? Unless one considers the effect a single stone, or consumer, has by influencing those around th...read more

by Joe V.

Individual consumer choices have to make a difference in sustainability. The sum of all the consumers in a society, and their choices, will determine how sustainable a society i...read more

by J. G. Chalfant-Popp

Anyone who thinks that the choices we make as consumers doesn't have an affect in sustaining our society, either suffers from severe economic ignorance or doesn't have a clue as...read more

by Francesca Collins

My Grandparents would always tell me, 'We live in a throw away world.' I heard these words, from the time I was too young to understand them until, they each passed from this wo...read more

by Travis Taylor

Of course individual consumer choices make a difference in creating a more sustainable society. The individuals may not realize that they are making up a large group that mak...read more

by Nadia Ghanny

A sustainable society is one that takes enough from nature but not an over abundant, which will deplete the natural resources of the planet. However, it is conclusive to say th...read more

by Morgan Johnson

Certainly individual choices have a huge impact on the overall health and sustainability of their society. Individuals create many of society's ills and contribute to their reso...read more