Shopping with the Environment in Mind
Friday, November 21st
4:30 — 5:30pm
McDonald Farm
Clow House
10S404 Knoch Knolls Rd
Naperville, IL 60565
Are there harmful toxins in your food and body care? Who makes the products you purchase and under what conditions? What impact does the production of these items have on the environment? If 70% of the U.S. economy is driven by consumer spending, then every purchase we make has a physical and social impact on the world. Unfortunately, our shopping choices can unintentionally contribute to climate change and social injustice. Many people wish they could do more to combat these unjust and unsustainable outcomes. So what is the connection between our purchases and this impact? ‘Your Shopping Superpower’ explores this important question and offers a comprehensive guide that navigates toward positive and sustainable shopping practices by providing pragmatic tips, tools and revealing how our habits can help reduce climate change, support companies with equitable workplace conditions, and foster diverse, local businesses.
Join Diane Osgood, author of ‘Your Shopping Superpower,’ to explore how your purchasing power can work for the environment instead of against it. How can you reconsider your shopping this holiday season?
Event will include an Author’s Talk, interactive demonstrations, and light refreshments. This event is free and all are welcome to join.
Speaker:
Diane Osgood, PhD, discovered her shopping superpower while studying wild orangutans in Kalimantan, Indonesia. Watching the tropical forest cut down before her eyes, she realized that if people stopped buying products made from tropical wood, the deforestation would stop. This realization led her to earn a Ph.D. in Environmental Economics at the London School of Economics and become an authority on sustainable and ethical products.
Sustainability isn’t just her work. It’s her passion. She’s a nerd with a knack for translating complex issues into plain words.
For more than 30 years, she has helped Fortune Global 500 companies create products that are better for the planet and all people, integrate sustainability into everything they do, and develop strategies to bring sustainability stretch goals to life.