Andrew Nesbitt (aka. Atariboy) has just got a job as designer and evangelist at Greenvoice.com. Greenvoice is a site which provides social networking and information regarding the environment.
Greenvoice boasts a good design. Whilst the design is fairly heavy and not as light as I like sites to be, it is utilised to a really tasteful effect. By heavy, I mean it has many colours and a lot of content compared to many designs which appear to have much more whitespace.
A nice feature of signing up for Greenvoice is that they will pay for 1 year of carbon off-setting for your computer (well only if you’re a light user! They’ll only pay to off-set a total equivalent to 2 hours daily!). But still, even off-setting a fraction of your CO2 usage free of charge is nothing to complain about!
You can co-ordinate environmental campaigns on the site and allow other users to partake in it or donate money to help achieve it. For example, this campaign to try to get software manufacturers to stop using excessive packaging (which I personally despise) has raised about £120 (little bug here, it reports it as £120.0 when it should be just £120 or £120.00!).
The site also has groups, such as anti-whaling and even local ones like one for Herefordshire. Any user can create their own group.
Also, Greenvoice provide news on environment-related subjects.
The site is an interesting idea: social networking which helps the planet. If this site takes off, I could see it changing a few things!
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I tried signing up the other day but it got eaten. Maybe I’ll shoot him an email so it could get fixed? I like the idea behind Greenvoice but for me (not in the UK) I fear it’s going to be one more distant web service I’d like to participate in but will forget about. I’ll keep checking it out. Sounds like it could do a much better job than Do the Right Thing, for instance, which after all is just more talk.
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