2. DEFINITION
Is a concept established by environmental organizations,
social and political that thought that humans would do
well to change their consumption habits adjusting to their
real needs and taking options on the market that
promote the environmental conservation and social
equality.
3. TIPS FOR THE
ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH
• Being green and avoid contamination.
• Before you buy something, think carefully if you really need
to buy it or if you're only leading by advertising.
• If you decide to buy something, well see what raw
material is manufactured, how its manufacturing process
impacts the environment and if it generates any damage
or social injustice.
• Also consider what impact the environment and the social
environment (especially close to you) has the use of what
you plan to buy.
• Every time you buy something, you must also consider the
impact caused by waste and garbage generated.
• Avoid products "disposable" if they are not strictly
necessary.
• Rejects plastic bags in supermarkets and leading retailers.
If you can, to do the shopping, bring your own cloth bags,
paper, cardboard or even plastic ones previously used
until they are worn out.
• Compra el contenido y no el envase. Muchas veces se
paga más por todo lo que implica la fabricación y la
eliminación de los envoltorios, que se tiran directamente a
la basura, que por el contenido.
4. TIPS FOR THE
ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH
• Recycled before buying, many of the things that are to pull can be
reused in other ways and forms (use your imagination).
• Avoid canned and packaged products too. Lunch boxes and glass
jars are a greener way to store food in plastic and aluminum.
• Prioritize products returnable or reusable containers.
• If use disposable items, which are compostable, biodegradable or, in
any case, recyclable materials. For example plates, glasses, cutlery,
bags, disposable pens compostable materials such as bioplastics,
instead of plastic.
5. TIPS FOR RESPONSIBLE
CONSUMPTION IN THE INFORMATION
REVOLUTION
Try to not only buy but also use free software when ever possible, use:
operating systems, applications, software, firmware, drivers, web
applications and multimedia codecs, open and free of proprietary
licenses code, as these deprive users, researchers and developers
around the world of the four fundamental freedoms associated with
software that makes the Free software Foundation:
1. Free to use the program for any purpose.
2. The freedom to study the program and adapt it to your needs.
3. The freedom to distribute the program the way you received it.
4. The freedom to modify the program and share their modifications.
6. VIRTUAL STORE IN PERU
SUPPORT VICTIMS OF TRAFFICKED
1. Your purchases will support various social programs. The first virtual
shop responsible consumption in Peru launched, leaves a mark on
the world (DUHEM), where the products are marketed as a common
factor contributing to society.
2. Products sold by DUHEM support a social cause, in various fields like
education, health, environment, human rights and development.
3. Each field is represented by an NGO Alternative CHS involved in the
field of human rights and social causes is called Protect their rights,
which is to support the educational reintegration of women and girls
who have been victims of trafficking.
4. As you know 94% of victims of trafficking in Peru are women, most of
them abandons his studies after an exploitative situation. The lack of
education puts them at serious risk, being a factor that often fall and
fall on trafficking networks.
5. Aware of this problem, it is intended that women and adolescents
who have been enslaved can resume their studies, moving them
away from the danger of exploitation and improve your chances to
get a decent job.
7. FAIR TRADE
Fair trade is an alternative form of trade promoted by non-
governmental organizations, the United Nations and by social
and political movements (such as pacifism and
environmentalism) that promote voluntary and fair trading
relationship between producers and consumers.
8. THE PRINCIPLES GOVERNED BY
THE FAIR TRADE ARE:
1. Producers are part of voluntary organizations and cooperatives or
work democratically.
2. Free enterprise and labor, to reject subsidies and welfare benefits
(hence the phrase fair trade: "Trade not Aid").
3. Rejection of child exploitation.
4. Equality between men and women.
5. We work with dignity while respecting human rights.
6. The price paid to producers allows decent living conditions.The price
paid to producers allows decent living conditions.
7. Quality and sustainable production values.
8. Caring for the environment.
9. Looking for ways to avoid intermediaries between producers and
consumers.It informs consumers about the origin of the product.
10.The process must be voluntary, so the relationship between
producers, distributors and consumers.
9. It is favorable to free trade under the same conditions namely abolish
discriminatory restrictions on products from developing countries, from
raw materials to manufacturing or technology. So discrimination and
protectionism is avoided. Try to avoid too large differences between the
price paid by a consumer product in the first world and the money paid
to producers in the third world and to prevent the exploitation of
workers. This also helps to offset the effects of consumerist obsession with
cheap, without further consideration, and its consequences:
• Progressive deterioration of the quality and durability of the products.
• Farm producers (see sweatshop).
• The right price, namely it does not contain interventions or influenced
by government subsidies that distort the concept of fair trade
ingredients. The distortions and consequent complaints in the market
due to high subsidies are by interested parties to the World Trade
Organization.
THE PRINCIPLES GOVERNED BY
THE FAIR TRADE ARE:
10. Fair trade can be considered a humanist version of free trade, which
like this between two parties is voluntary, and would not take place if
both parties do not believe that they would be beneficiaries.
Fair trade or alternative trade system is an initiative to create innovative
commercial channels, within which the relationship between the parties
is aimed at achieving sustainable development and sustainable supply.
The FT is oriented toward the overall development, economic, social
and environmental sustainability, respecting the idiosyncrasies of
peoples, cultures, traditions and basic human rights.
FAIR TRADE
