Consumerium list of lists

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    Welcome to Consum(er)ium lists of lists

    Consum(er)ium lists of consumer convenience services

    Consum(er)ium list of sites for the ethical consumer

    • The Ethical Consumer - The UK's only alternative consumer organisation looking at the social and environmental records of the companies behind the brand names.
    • Fairtrade Labelling Organizations FLO International (fairtrade.net)
    • The Good Shopping Guide - UK
    • Responsible Shopper A project run by Co-op America that has very convergent goal with us and they actually have a searchable DB online with 350 big companies investigated.
    • Transnationale(.org) - Consumer guides to Multinationals and shopping. Transnationale.org provides comprehensive information on more than 13,000 companies around the world. We report social and environmental behaviour, financial data, list of brands, membership to the most influential lobbies, public relations and opinion making, managers name and position, shareholders and subsidiaries, plants locations and offshore centers, brand and corporate image management.

    Other consumer oriented sites

    Consumer on the move


    Activist oriented sites

    • Greenpeace - Agenda: Environmentalism, safe trade, oceans, climate, opposing dangerous technology
      • http://act.greenpeace.org - Greenpeace cyber-activist community weblog, has hundreds of thousands of users, searches on almost any topic will yield something (Google searches will only show official documents). Active discussion of features for activist sites, how to integrate email chat and web, whether to use wikis or annotation, etc. Active discussion of many different projects. Probably the most advanced activist network anywhere on Earth - a good place to recruit trolls!
    • Human Rights Watch - Agenda: Human Rights
    • Infoshop.org is a portal linking content on the net of interest to the anarchist and anti-authoritarian community. In the spirit of anarchism, it is a collaborative project that encourages participation and networking of resources. Part of this network is the often updated Infoshop News.
    • The International Federation of Organic Agriculture Movements - IFOAM(.bio) is the worldwide umbrella organization for the organic agriculture movement, which represents close to 800 affiliates in 117 countries. ( Wikipedia )
    • SourceWatch (.org) - Propaganda and no body detection, since these always work to the detriment of some body. - A collaborative effort to investigate public relations operations and operatives by The Center for Media and Democracy. Formerly known as Disinfopedia. It is a collaborative project to produce a directory of public relations firms, think tanks, industry-funded organizations and industry-friendly experts that work to influence public opinion and public policy on behalf of corporations, governments and special interests. And yes, it's in the GFDL part of the world (Running MediaWiki, under GFDL)
    • http://www.theyrule.net/ - Topic map style visual presentations of interrelations of Companies Executives and stuff in the US mostly. They Rule aims to provide a glimpse of some of the relationships of the US ruling class.
    • Transparency International - Agenda: Fighting corruption, checkout their extensive links collection Lot's of good stuff on sustainable development, good corporate citizenship and lots more
    • Worldwatch Institute - An independent research organization working for an environmentally sustainable and socially just society. Special: Check out their Consumption portal

    Business ethics sites and other sites for businesses

    List of social media where you can like Consum(er)ium

    Techical solutions and information sources useful to Consum(er)ium

    (note: Meta-Wikipedia is now devoted to software imperialism and mediawiki hegemony, and cannot be considered a valid forum to discuss any such "standard"; As an example of a failed attempt to organize against a cabal, see theUnited Wikipedias Forum - how to get a huge 40-language project governed in Simple English without a cabal taking it over completely. Obviously this has failed.

    List of interesting not-for-profit projects

    GFDL corpus sources of information

    • Wiktionary - A spin off from wikipedia. The free dictionary and thesaurus in every language if it gets done someday. GFDL also. Not much happening there now. - (Running MediaWiki, under GFDL)
    • http://wikibooks.org - Yet another great idea being put forward by WikiMedia Foundation. Wikibooks is dedicated to developing and disseminating free, open content textbooks and other classroom texts - (Running MediaWiki, under GFDL)
    • Cookbook - One of the wikibooks that is of particular interest is the cookbook. Includes information on vegan and vegetarian food as well as other moral purchasing. - (Running MediaWiki, under GFDL)


    More may be located via the WikiApiary(.com) that tracking 8,000+ MediaWiki wikis

    Non-GFDL

    • openDemocracy.net - an online global magazine of politics and culture. They publish clarifying debates which help people make up their own minds.


    Miscellaneous projects

    • The Open Co-op - "... To build a worldwide commmunity of individuals and organisations committed to creating a collaborative sustainable economy." - Tikiwiki, copyright unknown.

    Feeling frustrated? Do something useful, it'll make you feel better

    • http://www.worldcommunitygrid.org - Donate your spare CPU cycles ( processor time ) to work for good of the world at the price of the added electricity consumption of burning your CPU hot instead of it kicking back and lowering electricity consumption when it has much idle time.

    All of the above are essential since not doing them leads to the wrong result, or no result (also wrong) at the point of purchase. For instance to not know who owns who can let a company that is truly horrible compete simply by creating a front company. To not have Adbusters helping to create and publicize the standard barcode we agree on, means we lose essential publicity and help from them, and their programs of anti-propaganda billboards and truth-telling. To not include travel is to have no influence on the largest discretionary decision people usually make in a year - where to spend their vacation. The ability to check which tourism packages are best or worst with a single click or code is a huge edge for a happy future! Letting no body convince you that some body doesn't matter, or matters less than the no body who says so, is a sure way to help no-body corporations and ideology destroy some-body apes, dolphins, forests and this planet.

    The following has recently moved under the umbrella of an enemy project:

    • Simple English Wikipedia simple.wikipedia(.org) - educating people all over the world, finding out what they care about, recruiting those who can keep opinion wiki up to date. This is the translation base for all Wikipedias, and may be necessary for use to provide background notes in any language for Consumerium advice.
    Now it will be necessary to fork this project, perhaps working with a valid and neutral international agency such as UNHCR which actually cares about the providing of essential survival and liability and risk information to people in simple language, and which probably has good resources for dealing with this.


    Strange projects

    The Consum(er)ium eternally incomplete list of stuff by country

    Africa

    Asia

    Australia

    Japan

    • "Earth Reforesting System" - not sure if this is going to work, but, at least they started with mediawiki, so maybe they are just waiting for others to chip in, just like Consumerium did. Mostly in Japanese.

    Europe

    Austria

    Belgium

    Finland

    • http://kulutusjuhla.fi/ ( Consumption Celebration ) which inherited the now defunct Consumer Gadget association's funds

    Lithuania

    • Minciu Sodas, http://www.ms.lt open laboratory for serving and organizing independent thinkers



    United Kingdom


    North America

    US

    South America

    Assortments of links

    and finally Consum(er)ium alphabetical list of projects and stuff that doesn't exist any more.

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