Green Consumerism

As consumers’ and voters’ representative, the Green Consumerism project of SSNC covers several approaches to deal with environmental aspects of consumption levels and kind.

The active members that devotes their interest to local activities of the nation-wide campaigns such as the Annual Greening Campaign etc. are of vital importance to the work with green consumerism and ecolabelling. Together they form the green consumerism network.

Bra Miljöval is the ecolabel of SSNC. It is referred to as "Good Environmental Choice" in English. SSNC started ecolabelling in 1988 on laundry detergent and paper. See more about the work to get the market forces to take the environment into account. Currently the system covers 12 product areas.

The ecolabelling also includes the internationally introduced labelling system of TCO ‘95 and ‘99 on computers.

Procurement at all the various offices all over Sweden, is focus of SSNC’s Green Office project. Decisions on whom to contract and what to buy due to environmental aspects, are important as a driving force towards sustainability. Greening Office Project helps to put up relevant environmental criteria for procurement purposes.

SSNC’s ecolabelling of electricity delivery contracts started at the very beginning of 1996. Both supply and demand of the labelled services are expanding rapidly, also geographically. Since May 1998, the same criteria are working in Norway and Finland in cooperation with SSNC’s sister organizations, Norwegian Society for the Conservation of Nature. Today You can sign up for admission to a new conference on green aspects of energy markets. The labelling of electricity is a part of the overall energy project of SSNC.