March 2009
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Cool Tribe. Would you join a green social...
As we develop econicLife.com, we’ve been looking at this question fairly closely. When you have options like facebook, twitter, linkedin et. al - why would you create yet another profile on cooltribe.com?
When it comes to creating a marketplace that competes with Etsy, yahoo stores, ebay stores and amazon. We’ve been extremely careful to ensure we answer that question.
Re Cover - AIA Award for Renovations
Kind of irrelevant - but we love great architecture. This is award-winning green living at its finest. Via DBLTHNK
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In case you were wondering - Is environmentalism...
econicLife co-founder and environmental leader, Simon Jackson, published a brilliant article on the state of the environmental movement. It discusses a question we’ve all been asking ourselves lately - Is environmentalism dead?
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Kiva
I’m sure everyone has heard of Kiva - an organization that helps donors connect with, and lend money to, entrepreneurs and small businesses in developing countries. This is yet another example of web application development being created to produce real, tangible good. Kiva’s founders developed a simple interface, with a basic set of tools and an important, but focused premise. And...
Bonanzle social marketplace blows up
Bonanzle web traffic has been exploding in recent months, as seen from the chart above. A start-up we have just recently begun to follow - Bonanzle is gaining significant traction as a niche online marketplace. To us, this is yet another organization proving the model works when it comes to using best in class social shopping tools, combined with a transparent marketplace to reach a niche...
February 2009
3 posts
“The econicLife founders are meeting this week to discuss our future. We are...”
WatchGoodGuide.com
The team at econicLife have been following these guys closely for the past couple weeks, and feel that this is definitely an organization to watch going forward. GoodGuide has set out on a massive project with a simple idea - aggregate and rank all consumer products in a way that allows people to find safe, healthy, and green products.
This kind of transparency and verifiable...
“On January 29th, GoodGuide won a Crunchie award – Silicon Valley’s version of...”