Stop the Shopocalypse!

There’s a plethora of websites with ideas for simplifying life and consuming ethically. This is just a handful.

• Cadbury Dairy Milk to go Fairtrade
  Fairtrade Australia & New Zealand has revealed a historic plan for Australia and New Zealand’s favourite chocolate Cadbury Dairy Milk® to achieve Fairtrade Certification by Easter 2010.

• Buy nothing

  If you've got to shop but want to see the global temperature drop, buy the green thing that took lots of love to create but zero energy to make.

• JustHolyHardware
  You can help ensure that the fundamental human dignity of those who make Christian-related products are respected.

• Maximised choice is a form of maximised control
  The Archbishop of Canterbury’s lecture on Ethics, Economics and Global Justice.

• www.ibreathe.org.uk
  Articles, resources, prayers and reflections on living simply and generously.
• Tribes&Nations
  Aims to provide a market bridge between poor communities and the West.
• www.unitingearthweb.org.au
  A network of Uniting Church people working for a greater connection between ecology and Christian faith and practice.
• www.fairtrade.com.au
  Buying accredited fair trade products is one way of ensuring that the people who produce the things you buy received a fair price.
• www.abc.net.au/rn/encounter
  Transcripts and audio downloads of ABC Radio National’s 2006 feature on Christians, consumerism and the west.
• www.adbusters.org (Buy Nothing Day)
  An informal day of action to draw attention to the harmful effects of over-consumption by industrialised nations on the rest of the world. This year, it falls on November 29.
• www.freecycle.org.au
  A worldwide network aimed at diverting reusable goods from landfill.
• wwjbmovie.com/save.html
  Resources to help you tackle over-consumption.
• www.newint.org/features/2006/11/01/action/
  A useful checklist on ethical consumption.
• www.worldvision.com.au
  A World Vision article on child labour and ethical consumerism, with links to some good resources on those topics.
• Food for Thought: Renewing the culinary culture should be a conservative cause

Any other links or ideas? Mail your own ideas to stephenw@nsw.uca.org.au.