Consumerium is a not-for-profit project, developed under GFDL licence, using Wiki-software, to develop free software and infrastructure for storage, transport and display of product information to consumers and feedback to the producers to enhance the consumer experience, advance product development and to keep this planet as hospitable as possible in the future.
Website: http://www.consumerium.org/wiki/
Consumerium is proud to do most of its research work in Wikipedia to avoid redundancy and boost synergy.
These need most work:
Short timeline of Consumerium
List of Wikipedia articles listed as research work in Consumerium
These should be started:
These are fairly complete:
Wikipedia:Wikiproject:List of fairly complete wikipedia articles related to Consumerium
(From http://www.consumerium.org/wiki/Wikipedia. If these interest you, you might want to check Consumerium out.)
Understanding buying choices and their effects:
- Conversion of units
- GTIN
- EAN (European Article Numbering)
- UPC (Universal Product Code)
- List of countries
- List of timelines
- List of reference tables
- List of stock exchanges
- List of supermarkets
- Commodity markets - buying on the largest scale
- Money - what it is and how it works, commodifying everything even you
- Arms trade (needs a lot of work!)
- list of ethics articles - why would you care what you buy?
- Globalization makes it harder to know what your money does
- Transparency International tries to make it easier to find out
- Greenpeace has six campaigns to affect buying choices, and advocates
- Accounting reform which would make more liabilities visible to you
- Full cost accounting in particular would make waste visible
- Productivism assumes that everything humans make is good
- Consumerism assumes that everything humans want is good
- Slow Food - tied for third most relevant? buy local, organic, etc.
- Sweatshop - tied for third most relevant? often the target of
- Boycott - second most relevant? usually shorter term than
- Moral purchasing describes most exactly the consumerium.org mission
- local food
External links
- http://www.consumerium.org/wiki/ is the R&D wiki for the project and it's running Wikipedia Phase III software