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This is (was...) one of the aims I had in mind with creating a website with an overview for European consumers: a European-orientated internet hub of information on eco-friendly and eco-smarter applications.

Of course it died on the vein - because the scope of it is massive. But I still suspect it has potential - particularly when the next waves of high oil prices will roll in.

by Nomad (Bjinse) on Sat Nov 15th, 2008 at 11:42:34 AM EST
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do you know kevin kelly's 'cool tools' website?

i love it.

'The history of public debt is full of irony. It rarely follows our ideas of order and justice.' Thomas Piketty

by melo (melometa4(at)gmail.com) on Sat Nov 15th, 2008 at 12:34:21 PM EST
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Nomad:
I suspect you mean Do It Yourself Energy which was based on your own initiative and my attempt remains sorrily lacking in scope. I am, if you'd believe, thinking of a re-boot, which is slightly more Africa orientated and more personalised.

I still think that's a bankable idea if you'd start with a focus on renewables and completely green (say, cradle to cradle) products.

There are some basically non-sponsored sites doing consumer information. The site I linked to earlier, called zerofootprint.net, has basically shifted away towards only providing information about services it wants to sell business. Which is the main field to make money. It's also what the Carbon Trust website Sven linked to seems to do, if a bit more elaborately.

So right now I only know the website utopia.de. Which is interesting in that it is built on a community (it also has some questionable elements exemplified by the slogan Kauf dir eine bessere Welt). It's gotten over 30,000 people to register as users in a year. So there's definitely potential among the LOHAS* crowd.

* Because every 30 something trend needs an acronym

by nanne (zwaerdenmaecker@gmail.com) on Sat Nov 15th, 2008 at 01:31:49 PM EST
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