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== Consum(er)ium list of sites for the ethical consumist ==
== Consum(er)ium list of sites for the ethical consumist ==
If you want to find out about [[product]]s and [[companies]] '''NOW''' (not in X years ;) please go try these. '''Consumerium makes no guarantees about the validity of information offered at the sites.''' These links are here to save you from hours of search-and-miss-annoyance:


=== Business ethics websites ===
=== Business ethics websites ===
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* http://adbusters.org/ - Website of Adbusters Media Foundation, a global network of artists, activists, writers, pranksters, students, educators and entrepreneurs who want to advance the new social activist movement of the information age. Their aim is to topple  existing power structures and forge a major shift in the way we will  live in the 21st century.   
* http://adbusters.org/ - Website of Adbusters Media Foundation, a global network of artists, activists, writers, pranksters, students, educators and entrepreneurs who want to advance the new social activist movement of the information age. Their aim is to topple  existing power structures and forge a major shift in the way we will  live in the 21st century.   
* [http://Appropedia.org Appropedia.org] copyleft source of instructional capital for the consumer (and the entrepreneur)
*'''[[Consumer Reports]] [http://www.consumerreports.org/ (.org)]''' - offers comparisons of various [[product group]]s. Online since at least [[1998]] according to [http://web.archive.org/web/*/http://www.consumerreports.org/ Archive.org]. [[Nonprofit]] and Independent
*'''[[Consumer Reports]] [http://www.consumerreports.org/ (.org)]''' - offers comparisons of various [[product group]]s. Online since at least [[1998]] according to [http://web.archive.org/web/*/http://www.consumerreports.org/ Archive.org]. [[Nonprofit]] and Independent
* [http://www.consumerservicesguide.org/ Consumer Services Guide (.org)] a hefty guide of consumer information mostly for US by http://www.consumer-action.org/
* [http://www.consumerservicesguide.org/ Consumer Services Guide (.org)] a hefty guide of consumer information mostly for US by http://www.consumer-action.org/


=== Other wikis ===
=== Other wikis ===
* [[SourceWatch]] [http://www.sourcewatch.org (.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. 
* [[Wikitravel]] [http://www.wikitravel.org/ (.org)] - a travel guide - boycotts should include not going places where people do rotten things, since tourism has an eco-impact and sends messages of approval too. [[Licensing|Licensed]] under the [[Creative Commons licenses|Creative Commons CC-A-SA license]]. A wiki to discover new places to eat, stay, enjoy and experience.
* [[WikiApiary]] - tracking 8,000+ [[MediaWiki]] [[wiki]]s
* [[WikiApiary]] - tracking 8,000+ [[MediaWiki]] [[wiki]]s
* [[SourceWatch]] [http://www.sourcewatch.org (.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.
* [[GFDL Corpus]] despite the various thugs trying to control it for their own commercial interests - [[Wikipedia]] [http://www.wikipedia.org/ (.org)], [[Simple English Wikipedia]] [http://simple.wikipedia.org/ simple.wikipedia(.org)], [[Wikidata]] [http://wikidata.org (.org)], [[Wikibooks]] [http://wikibooks.org (.org)] (especially [[Cookbook]] mjam ) and [[Wiktionary]] [http://wikitionary.org (.org)]


=== Social networks ===
=== Social networks ===
* [[Diaspora]] - a decentralized ad-free and cost-free social network software and social network. '''https://d.consumium.org''' serving the consumer informedness effort. http://podupti.me is a site dedicated to provide various views of the pods currently active.
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== Lists of convergent efforts and projects ==
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'''Essential efforts and projects''' are doing things that we have to do, and we are far better off working with them, than ignoring them. In many cases they will be doing something before we do it here, and maybe better. So tracking them closely is useful.
* [[Diaspora]] - a decentralized ad-free and cost-free social network software and social network. '''https://d.consumium.org''' serving the consumer informedness effort. http://podupti.me is a site dedicated to provide various views of the pods currently active. Share with us. We are consumium@d.consumium.org.
 
=== Techical solutions useful to Consum(er)ium ===


* [[GFDL Corpus]] despite the various thugs trying to control it for their own commercial interests - [[Wikipedia]] [http://www.wikipedia.org/ (.org)], [[Simple English Wikipedia]] [http://simple.wikipedia.org/ simple.wikipedia(.org)], [[Wikidata]] [http://wikidata.org (.org)], [[Wikibooks]] [http://wikibooks.org (.org)] (especially [[Cookbook]] mjam ) and [[Wiktionary]] [http://wikitionary.org (.org)]


* [[Translatewiki]] [http://translatewiki.net/ (.net)] for doing / receiving translations of wikis and other softwares.
* [[Translatewiki]] [http://translatewiki.net/ (.net)] for doing / receiving translations of wikis and other softwares.
 
* [[Internet UPC Database]] [http://upcdatabase.com/ (.com)]]  - Database of [[manufacturer]]s and [[product]]s with [[UPC]] codes, searchable online and downloadable version which is not as up-to-date as the online version but is strangely [[license]]d under [[GPL]]. Internet UPC Database released a [[barcode]] read-via-camera enabled iPhone app in 2015.
* [[Wikitravel]] [http://www.wikitravel.org/ (.org)] - a travel guide - boycotts should include not going places where people do rotten things, since tourism has an eco-impact and sends messages of approval too. [[Licensing|Licensed]] under the [[Creative Commons licenses|Creative Commons CC-A-SA license]]. A wiki to discover new places to eat, stay, enjoy and experience.
 
 
* '''[[Internet UPC Database]] [http://upcdatabase.com/ (.com)]]  - Database of [[manufacturer]]s and [[product]]s with [[UPC]] codes''', searchable online and downloadable version which is not as up-to-date as the online version but is strangely [[license]]d under [[GPL]]. Internet UPC Database released a [[barcode]] read-via-camera enabled iPhone app in 2015.
 
 
:This is a primarily social effort, it seems. They have open space meetings called WTF and interact with large groups of people. It's a pro-[[democracy]] group, actively working to organize people. They are interested in things like community currency, flash mob, and open space.
 
* [[DBpedia]] [http://dbpedia.org (.org)] - http://wiki.dbpedia.org/ data extraction of information in [[Wikipedia]] to an [[w:ontology]] and datasets.  
* [[DBpedia]] [http://dbpedia.org (.org)] - http://wiki.dbpedia.org/ data extraction of information in [[Wikipedia]] to an [[w:ontology]] and datasets.  


* Appropedia.org


*[[wikitext standard]] efforts
*[[wikitext standard]] efforts
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