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In The News Greenopolis In The NewsAugust 21, 2008Green Web AwardsBelow is an except from Nigel's Eco Store's Green Web Awards, featuring the category of Green Online Communities:
Online CommunitiesWhich is your favourite Green online community? » read more
 August 2, 2008Greening Hollywood: Green Geeks 2.0Feel like getting social while going green(er)? Launched earlier this summer is Greenopolis, a social networking site that functions like the others, i.e., Facebook and MySpace, just with a green twist. The site connects people and businesses on green issues and is sponsored by WasteManagement, a $20 billion company.  July 25, 2008New Reuse Site Offers Financial Rewards to MembersBy combining features of Craigslist, eBay and Freecycle, the new Free’N Exchange program is providing reuse options for thousands of members to keep items out of landfills. The program is part of Greenopolis, a new site developed by Waste Management. Here’s how the program works: » read more  July 18, 2008Green Link LoveWelcome to another packed edition of the wonderfully named (if I do say so myself) Green Link Love, where we send links out to other green websites and articles. You can read the previous editions here: one, two and three. » read more July 8, 2008BlogHer Conference is Setting a New Green Standard
Bloggers across the globe are preparing to converge on San Francisco at the end of next week to attend the fifth annual BlogHer
conference. Conferences are wonderful, and there is no replacement to
face-to-face time to meet others and share ideas. But conference
travel, hotels and meeting places are notorious for producing landfills
of waste and creating a huge carbon impact in their wake.  June 26, 2008Get Your Green Fix Without Going Nuts: 25 Environment-Friendly Sites You Must BookmarkThe beyond-fad lifestyle of "going green" is nearly a pandemic by this point. The following sites are some great starting points for those looking for some fantastic tips, articles, pics, and more relating to environmentalism.With climate change no longer in just the history books, but now hitting the daily newspaper and the web, it's not just trendy to becoming an environmentally aware citizen, but a necessity. These twenty-five websites will help you being your trek to turning yourself into that person. » read more  June 19, 2008Greenopolis.com Offers Green Social Networking Site
Greenopolis is a social networking site that develops online relations between everyday people, communities, organizations, schools and businesses. As an environmentally-focused social networking site, Greenopolis was created to engage users on green issues so that they might learn, explore and participate in an open dialogue about the present and future of our environment. » read more  June 19, 2008Greenopolis, Social Networking for the EnvironmentIf there’s one social networking niche that we all should support, it’s got to be something that advocates and focuses on green issues or the environment-friendly sites. Environmental awareness involves people and needs the power of people to successfully carry out its mandate. Hence, we should all support Greenopolis.Greenopolis is an environment-friendly social networking site which was created to engage users on green issues to make them learn, explore and participate in an open dialogue about the present and future of our environment. » read more  June 18, 2008Waste Management Backs Green Social Networking SiteTrash-hauling giant Waste Management is sponsoring a new social networking website that encourages people to "learn, act, and earn rewards for making a positive impact on the environment. Greenopolis.com, currently in beta, aims to connect people and businesses on green issues. » read more  June 17, 2008Waste Management takes green message to the Web with new siteWaste Management Inc. has launched a new Web site. Greenopolis.com is designed as an online meeting place for the environmentally conscious and includes features commonly found on social networking sites, such as the ability for members to create profiles or keep track of peers. Houston-based Waste Management's (NYSE: WMI) new site also offers online tools for community action groups and provides local environmental services directories. » read more |
Featured Thought Leader This week I was inspired to write about the common solutions to high fossil energy prices and climate change, and the column was picked up by the progressive news service, Common Dreams. You can read the ... Speaking of GreenLatest Post
Pack a No-Waste Lunch Box
The idea of lunch brought to and from school in a paper or plastic bag seems so '80s, but the use of an actual lunch box or reusable sack (although they've been around for years, too) is back in style, and choi... Latest Forum Topic Sign this petition calling on theClorox Company (parent corporation of Brita) to expand its water filterrecycling program in the UK to all countries in which it sells itsproducts. ... Latest Poll dirty water 0% (0 votes) dead trees 0% (0 votes) this is a weird thing to ask 33% (1 vote) niether 67% (2 votes) Total votes: 3 |
