Green Buyers Group
Organizing the dollar vote to support sustainable manufacturing
As pointed out in "Who Killed the Electric Car," consumers have not done enough to "pull" the market toward sustainability. Let's brainstorm ways to create intentional, regional consumer pull in the manufacturing sector of the New Economy (thereby co-creating sustainable jobs, ethical businesses, and regional, green manufacturing.)
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Created: Sep 13, 2008
Updated: Oct 21, 2009
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Richard Smedley
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What am I up to?
- Various techie bits for GaiaUniversity - a great place for Sustainability education: become a World changer :-)
- Social Media & The Accessible Web courses
Priced low for small businesses & community organisations - see http://www.goodgnus.org/courses/ - Starting up hackspaces in NW England
Join the list at http://groups.google.co.uk/group/NW-hack-space/ if you're interested. - Credit Unions
Starting a new social enterprise to write Free Software for Credit Unions
[4a & other financial software aimed at the Voluntary Sector] - Cloud computing
Involved in developing clouds for Voluntary Sector groups. - Permaculture
Growing, blogging [about to launch site], public speaking on sustainable growing. Just given three days of talks on "edible landscaping" at the Southport Flower Show. - Web
Spending much of the autumn producing websites