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ConSiDER:

… the implications of your needs, the impacts of your choices, the consequences of your actions
… the consumer power you wield to bring about a healthy and desirable future
… that together, with will and vision, we can create a positive, sustainable, & equitable world!

ConSiDER Program Description

ConSiDER (Consumers for Sustainable Development and Ethical Responsibility) is a program of Syntony Quest that helps people create a sustainable and positive future through their power as consumers.

ConSiDER has three main objectives:

  • Communicate the potential for positive change that our collective power as consumers holds.
  • Educate about consumer choices that are good for our personal wellbeing, community development, ecological sustainability, and the stewardship of generations to come.
  • Investigate the needs and aspirations of both consumers and corporations so that together we can nurture economies that support sustainable development and ethical responsibility.

ConSiDER embraces a multi-level ethics that strives for consumer and citizen choices that promote

  • Human well being
    • holistic health, learning, and personal development
  • Community development
    • celebration of diversity, collaboration, peace and conflict resolution, social transformation, and partnership forms of social organization
  • Ecological sustainability
    • environmental stewardship, conservation of natural resources, eco-efficiency and resource efficiency, recycling, and sustainable development
  • Responsibility for the future
    • prospective thinking, proactive planning and design, evolutionary vision, welfare of future generations of all species, strengthening of the life support systems of planet earth.

 

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In this space of EL Center, you will find relevant information to help you participate as a ConSiDERate consumer and member of society. The Resource Center section lists practical and useful suggestions for applying the ConSiDER knowledge base in terms of where you shop, what you eat, how you live, and other day-to-day practices. The Knowledge Base section includes links to general information websites to help you learn about the issues and solutions around consumption and sustainability.

To interactively engage in dialogue with other individuals committed to create a better world, join us at our virtual learning space.

The paradox of our time in history is that we have
taller buildings but shorter tempers, wider
freeways, but narrower viewpoints. We spend more,
but have less. We buy more, but enjoy less. We
have bigger houses and smaller families, more
conveniences, but less time. We have more degrees
but less sense, more knowledge, but less judgment,
more experts, yet more problems, more medicine,
but less wellness.
We have multiplied our possessions, but
reduced our values. We talk too much, love too
seldom, and hate too often. We've learned how to
make a living, but not a life. We've added years
to life not life to years.
We've been all the way to the moon and back, but
have trouble crossing the street to meet a new
neighbor. We conquered outer space but not inner
space. We've done larger things, but not better
things. We've cleaned up the air, but polluted the
soul. We've conquered the atom, but not our
prejudice. We write more, but learn less. We plan
more, but accomplish less. We've learned to rush,
but not to wait. We build more computers to hold
more information, to produce more copies than
ever, but we communicate less and less.
These are the times of fast foods and slow
digestion, big people and small character, steep
profits and shallow relationships. These are the
days of two incomes but more divorce, fancier
houses, but broken homes. These are days of quick
trips, disposable diapers, throwaway morality, one
night stands, overweight bodies, and pills that do
everything from cheer, to quiet, to kill. It is a
time when there is much in the showroom window and
nothing in the stockroom.
- (Author unknown)

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ConSiDER logoConSiDER resource center

In this section you will find a collection of links to educational and informative resources to help YOU become a more conscious world citizen and make responsible and sustainable consumer choices – for you, your family, your society and your planet!

Your values, your impact

cowResponsible Shopping and Investing

fruitFood and health

Home and office

Education for a better world

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Positive and Ethical Media

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ConSiDER logo ConSiDER knowledge base

In this section you will find resourceful websites that provide important and relevant information for understanding the complex and dynamic situation of our societies and of our planet as a whole. It also spotlights organizations generating and applying knowledge to facilitate the transition toward a sustainable society.

“The Global Village”

If we could shrink the Earth's population to a village of precisely 100 people, with all existing human ratios remaining the same, it would look like this:
There would be 57 Asians, 21 Europeans,
14 from the Western Hemisphere (North and South) and 8 Africans.
51 would be female; 49 would be male.
70 would be non-white; 30 white.
70 would be non-Christian; 30 Christian.
50% of the entire world's wealth would be in the hands of only 6 people
and all 6 would be citizens of the United States.
80 would live in substandard housing.
70 would be unable to read.
50 would suffer from malnutrition.
1 would be near death, 1 would be near birth.
Only 1 would have a college education.
No one would own a computer.

[The original “State of the Village Report” by Donella H. Meadows (which appeared in The Global Citizen on May 31, 1990), can be found at www.questconnect.org]

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