![]() Look for products with fair trade/sustainable/organic certifications. It’s a traditional search engine, ads and all, but the money raised is used to make the world a greener place. Really cool! (Don’t forget to search “is ecosia legit” on some other search engine first!)īuy the same product you were going to buy but find a local option or buy in bulk to reduce the environmental impact. Ecosia takes an entirely different approach. It’ll tell you how many trees are planted with your own searches. You don’t need to buy a physical product, you can use Ecosia as your search engine and you’ll be helping plant trees where they’re needed the most. Read the story/info: sustainable, ethical brands tend to tell their story, read it and spend 5 minutes doing further research or visit their website. Gratitude is a powerful force for goodness and well-being.īreak the habit of impulsive, mindless shopping, hence breaking the hedonic treadmill.Ĭhoose and investigate the product before you go out shopping (one of us here often does the research on the mobile phone in the middle of the aisle…) It boosts your gratitude levels through realising and appreciating the complexity of the process and the huge amount of people involved in making possible the product you are holding in your hands, from the farmer and the soil to the person stocking the shelves. ![]() Helps cultivate compassion and connectedness by reflecting on the lives of the people that make the product possible. It puts you more in control of your shopping choices. So this week we propose you choose a product that you would normally buy (nothing new) and make the effort to investigate its process cycle, impact, benefits and risks, and then make a conscious choice about buying it, or not, or changing brand, or whatever you decide to do.Ĭonsciously purchasing an item is a process that brings many benefits, here are some of them:Īcting in alignment to values that benefit the larger community increase our levels of happiness. ![]() The reality is that although most of us would always choose to do what’s good for ourselves, for others and the planet, convenience often plays the winning hand. It’s a lot of hassle and many even secretly admit not wanting to know, so they don’t have to give up a particular item or brand. Kids’ ideas about where food comes from may make us chuckle but, do we really know where the stuff we buy comes from? And would we choose to buy it if we truly understood the impact of a particular item on local communities, the environment, and our health? We assume there are enough government controls out there so we can safely eat, wear and use pretty much anything sold in the supermarket, but it’s very rare that we will investigate all the way to the source, the people involved in the production, and the real impact of the items in our shopping bag.
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