Category “Green”

• Oct 03, 2008 Eco-friendly hotel search with WholeTravel

  On TechCrunch (emphasis is mine): The “green” incarnation of travel, called ecotourism, mandates that travelers minimize their cultural, economic, and environmental impacts as much as possible to promote sustainability. But while there are thousands of hotels worldwide that promote themselves as “green”, many of them are only partially fulfilling these requirements – they might not be wasting [...]

• Apr 24, 2008 Greenzer launched

  Greenzer – a new shopping engine focused on green goods I briefly talked about some weeks ago – has launched its public beta. It has all the “design patterns” of a classic CSE (full-text search ; navigation per product; filtering to refine selection; product pages with offers…), but what makes it different is the editorial [...]

• Feb 27, 2008 Greenzer – A new green shopping engine is coming

  Greenzer is a new green shopping engine that is expected to go live in Q1 08. Read on ecommerce-guide.com: The new site is partnering with Channel Intelligence Inc., which is contributing its data classification know-how to filter a wide selection of environmentally preferable consumer products available on Greenzer.com’s shopping engine.The company says the collaboration will help [...]

• Oct 04, 2007 Green shopping by TheFind

  TheFind has recently launched a new variation of their main site: after releasing the new Glimpse, they have put their focus on green products. In a move that is similar to ShopGreen by PriceGrabber, TheFindGreen is basically a view of the classic TheFind site with only green / eco-friendly / fair-trade products. As explained in [...]

• Jun 04, 2007 New green shopping site by PriceGrabber

  PriceGrabber has launched a new green section – at shopgreen.pricegrabber.com – where you can find and shop eco-friendly products, from organic clothes to Energy-Star compliant electronic devices. PriceGrabber considers a product as green if it follows one of the following rules: “Energy Star-compliant products” “Products made from organic or recycled materials” “Products made from environmentally-friendly materials including hemp, [...]

• May 11, 2007 Greenify the shopping experience: Real Costs

  RealCosts is “is a Firefox plug-in that inserts emissions data into travel related e-commerce websites. The first version adds CO2 emissions information to airfare websites such as Orbitz.com, United.com, Delta.com, etc. Following versions will work with car directions, car rental, and shipping websites. Think of it like the nutritional information labeling [...]

• Feb 25, 2007 Yahoo! launches 18Seconds.org

  Yahoo! has just launched 18Seconds.org. 18 seconds is the time needed to change a bulb and replace it by a CFL bulb. As described on Yahoo! Anecdotal: Yahoo! has built a powerful tool in www.18seconds.org, which tracks data for CFL purchases nationally and locally. You will be able to see the amount of CFLs sold across [...]

• Nov 18, 2003 La décroissance soutenable

  Ce week-end, j’ai assisté à une conférence sur la “Diminution de la Ressource en Eau, Catastrophe Ecologique ou Humanitaire?” dans le cadre du 18ème Festival International du Film Nature et Environnement. Les deux interlocuteurs étaient très pertinents ; le premier présentant un état des lieux alarmiste sur la situation internationale et les batailles engagées autour [...]