consumptionliteracy.org

created in 2015, clp is building change with youth across the spectrum, educators, and communities by learning to see where we consume resources and how we produce waste so that we can innovate ways to switch it up.     we innovate ways to not produce waste and to limit consumption in the classroom, in our backyards, and everyday life. we find ways to utilize waste as a resource. we spread understanding about the social and environmental effects of what we buy, what we eat, and how we choose to live so that we can learn to modify our habits to create change. we reclaim unused school gardens, we foodscape school campuses, and we relearn how to grow food with our educational and neighborhood communities. we teach about food justice, food literacy, and how healthy soil leads to healthy food - which grows a healthy body. most importantly, we mobilize with youth, communities, and educators through consumption literacy education, action, and spreading what we know, so others