Shrink Your Footprint: What We Buy

The goods we buy and the services we use matter. Our consumer behavior drives climate change; however, buying less does not necessarily imply a lower quality of life. Learn about the latest advances in sustainable consumption and how you can reduce your carbon footprint.

Our panel of experts included:

• Alexandra Bar-Cohen, Vice President, Board of Trustees, Sustainable Princeton. View the opening slides from our moderator.
• Michael Chung, Sr. Manager Product Stewardship, Johnson & Johnson. View these “Environmental Product Stewardship” slides.
• Maurie Cohen, Professor of Sustainability Studies, New Jersey Institute of Technology. View these “How to Really Shrink Your Footprint” slides.

This program, held on February 5 2020, was the third of four focused on practical, actionable, and evidence-based steps to reduce the footprint of our daily lives.

Click here to view the live stream of the event on Facebook.

For a deeper dive on this topic, check out our Purchases web page as well as the Ellen MacArthur Foundation, USDN Sustainable Consumption Toolkit,
CoolClimate Network, New Dream & So Kind Registry, and
Sustainable Consumption Research and Action Initiative (SCORAI).