GoodGuide, a startup with a ranking system for consumer products based on environmental, health, and social data, has been acquired by a business division of Underwriters Laboratories. Read more »
GoodGuide, a startup that ranks goods on how sustainable they are, has released its latest green rankings for 576 cell phones. Does your phone rank at the top of the bottom of the pile? And do you really care? Read more »
We’re a little past the Wild West years of green marketing for sectors like carbon offsets, renewable energy, auto fuels and green building, but the sheriffs — the federal government and privately run certification programs — still have plenty of work to do. That was the […] Read more »
When GoodGuide — a web site that rates products based on how “good” they are, in terms of social and environmental practices — launched in September founder Dara O’Rourke told us that the company had raised an undisclosed amount of funding from New Enterprise Associates and […] Read more »
GoodGuide‘s recently released application for the iPhone provides you with instant access to their 65,000+ strong database of safe, green, and healthy products. Deemed the “world’s largest and most reliable source of information on the health, environmental and social performance of everyday products and companies,” this […] Read more »
There’s been a wave of green goods crashing over our heads in recent months. But how confident are you really that the eco-friendly toothpaste (shampoo, notebook, chair, etc.) you bought was green enough to justify that much more of your hard-earned wages? Turns out the green […] Read more »
Let’s face it, no matter how much you try to investigate where your products — be they shampoo, gadgets or processed food — come from, or what they’re made of, you never really know the whole story. While some web sites, like Jimmy Wale’s new Green […] Read more »
You can now invoice your 37Signals’ Basecamp projects using FreshBooks. Especially helpful for Web Worker crowd. More details and screen casts here. Read more »
Not mobile but certainly tech related- Poseidon Resorts plans to build the first ocean bottom resort in the Bahamas. The luxury hotel will be built in Florida and transported by barge to the assembly site. Suites are 550 m2 and will run a measly $1500 per […] Read more »
