Consumer Action
Since 1971, a national non-profit education and advocacy organization offering many free services to consumers. Check out Consumer Booknotes, On Our Radar, Take@ction, Hotline Alerts for scams and "Fee of the Week," and our newsletter, Consumer Action News.

Consumer Action Line: Looking Out for You
The Action Line blog for consumers, from the San Jose Mercury News.

Consumer Law
Aloha. This home page is for Hawai`i consumers. It is sponsored by the Consumer Action and Information Center of Hawai`i and Margery Bronster, Jeff Crabtree and John Hoshibata, Hawai`i attorneys who work on consumer issues and public interest law. If you think you might need free information or legal help concerning one of the areas discussed below, feel free to contact us. Our goal is simple: to post the most helpful information available for Hawai`i consumers.

Corporate Accountability International
A membership organization that protects people by waging and winning campaigns that challenge irresponsible and dangerous corporate actions around the world. For nearly 30 years, Corporate Accountability International and our members have scored major victories that protect people's lives by forcing corporations like Nestle, General Electric and Philip Morris/Altria to stop abusive practices. See: INFACT.

eco-labels
Learn more about products that are eco-labeled compared to those that are conventionally farmed or produced; keep track of labels recently added; and compare labels quickly with a shorthand report card and print easily to use while shopping.

Ethical Consumer Homepage (UK)
Ethical Consumer magazine publishes buyer's guides designed to help you find the products which best fit with your own values. Read the truth about the social and environmental records of the companies behind the brands you buy. Learn about alternative products and support smaller, more ethical companies

Ethical Consumer Research Association
A non-profit workers co-operative that produces a magazine, maintains a database of ethically-related corporate information, and conducts research for campaign groups and ethically minded organisations. The UK's only alternative consumer organisation looking at the social and environmental records of the companies behind the brand names.

Federal Citizen Information Center
A division of the U.S. government offers a free copy of the 2007 Consumer Action Handbook. Allow up to four weeks for delivery. This guide helps educate consumers on the steps to take after being "ripped off" by a merchant.

Green Seal
It says that a product or service has been tested according to science-based procedures, that it works as well or better than others in its class, and that it has been evaluated without bias or conflict of interest. The Green Seal of Approval has come to stand for reliability, fairness, and integrity. Evaluations are based on state-of-the-art science and information using internationally recognized methods and procedures. To earn the coveted Seal a product must meet the environmental standard for the category as demonstrated by rigorous evaluation, testing and a plant visit.

How To Spend for a Better World
GOOD MONEY article about socially and environmentally responsible consuming.

INFACT
In 2004, Infact changed its name to Corporate Accountability International to better reflect our purpose and to acknowledge decades of leadership in organizing for corporate accountability.

National Consumers League
Our mission is to protect and promote social and economic justice for consumers and workers in the United States and abroad. NCL is a private, nonprofit advocacy group representing consumers on marketplace and workplace issues. We are the nation's oldest consumer organization. NCL provides government, businesses, and other organizations with the consumer's perspective on concerns including child labor, privacy, food safety, and medication information.

OSHA DATA - Regulatory Compliance History Information Service
A public record information service which offers online and preprogrammed reports of federal Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) compliance and enforcement data for every business nationwide. Custom hard copy and electronic data extractions are available upon request.

Simple Living Network
Since 1996 has been providing resources, tools, examples and contacts for conscious, simple, healthy and restorative living.