Category “Green”

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 on the back of [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]