Gate Crasher

Not so long ago we used to be customers, today we see ourselves as ‘consumers’ and we perceive consumption as the basis of modern economics. Few of us grow or make useful items any more and we expect items on demand and dispose of them where we can not see them.

 All Natural Resources on our planet are limited an finite, to prolong our yields of the Earth we must seek in giving back to it for the next harvest. Market economics rests on the assumption that ‘the customer is always right’. You are the customer, or at least you used to be before we were lulled into being consumers.

 By making demands of suppliers to meet your environmental needs and expectations, you will find that more than likely the producer of the product will adapt. So next time you were thinking about making a purchase. Think about it’s life cycle and the environmental impact of the resources used to create, maintain and dispose of that product.

 So please take a look at the International Green Purchasing Network and purchase products that are approved with your national Ecolabel to help make a sustainable difference.