Code: 1.5
To understand how one’s behaviour as a digital consumer affects the community, society and environment. To use digital technologies to make socially and environmentally responsible choices.
Evaluating the effects of one's behaviour as a digital consumer on the environment and its ethical and social impacts
Knowing that the transport of goods purchased online has an impact on the environment
Understanding the environmental impact of computers and electronic devices and how they can be made to last longer (e.g. changing hard disks) or recycled
Being able to use digital tools to improve the environmental and social impact of one's consumer behaviour (e.g. by looking for local produce, by searching for collective deals, etc.)
Applying one’s understanding of socially responsible sustainable consumption to purchases in the digital marketplace
Choosing digital means that have less impact on the planet (e.g. reading an online newspaper instead of print; sharing, re-selling and recycling goods through P2P digital marketplaces)
Endorsing sustainable positions in the digital marketplace and advocating them (e.g. advocating sustainable production and/or consumption through social networking sites)
Positioning oneself as a sustainable digital consumer
Being critical about the excesses of consumption or unsustainable production and consumption