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New Green Shopping Website

by Jennifer on December 2nd, 2007

Deb from Simply Thrifty sent me a heads up about this ultra cool and easy to use new green shopping experience website. The site, called EVO reviews and rates green products in a way that makes it easy for consumers to make quick and green decisions. It doesn’t look like you can buy anything at their actual site but they refer you to a company’s site after you look at the rating.

The EVO rating system works like this…

They consider “What it’s made from, how it’s produced, the distance it travels to reach the consumer, and what type of energy is used to power it.” Next to each product you’ll find 1 to 5 little leaves.

The more green leaves EVO gives the product, the greener it is. EVO products must have a minimum of one Green Attribute to be featured.

Below are some examples of what EVO calls Green Attributes.

• Natural Fibers
• Energy Star
• Solar
• Pure Beeswax
• Eco Packaging
• Bamboo
• Sustainable Wood

EVO also has a great little grow a tree quiz on their homepage that you can take. When you start the quiz your tree is leaf free. As you answer questions your tree grows leaves according to how green you live. It’s pretty fun. Additionally, and here’s the best part, if you register at EVO they will plant a real live tree. To do this EVO partnered with Trees For The Future. In honor of their website launch, they are committing to planting 100,000 trees. Nice. I already registered so that’s one tree planted. How many of you can sign up?

Oh, one note, it’s hard to find where to sign up but I found it — it’s in the top right hand corner of the site. In spite of this design flaw this is one handy site. In fact, later I’ll show some cool stuff I found there.

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