Futures Forum: Citizens or consumers?
Is it really just about 'what we buy'?
Futures Forum: Can we bring about effective change through our shopping choices - or does consumer choice simply 'further entrench us within the mire of rampant consumerism'?
As the debate over plastic packaging demonstrates - is it about taxing or shopping it away?
Futures Forum: The truth about plastic: how to cure our addiction
Radio 4 this evening looked at our behaviours:
What's the difference between a consumer and a citizen?
Research suggests many of us talk in an environmentally conscious way outside the supermarket, then turn into ruthless bargain hunters once we're inside.
Charlotte Smith ends her look at global food value chains by exploring how we shop, and how much influence we have over where our food comes from.
BBC Radio 4 - The Global Farm, Series 1, The Good Consumer
It's quite a big debate:
Consumer or citizen? | openDemocracy
The difference between Citizens and Consumers: three suggestions | The New Citizenship Project Blog
Consumer or Citizen? Our power to change the world
The consumer is dead! Long live the citizen | Futures Centre
Displacing Democracy: Market Accountability and the Consumer-Citizen - Oxford Scholarship
Citizen vs consumer | Media Future Week
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