GreenShopping.com: A Environmentally Conscious Front-End to Amazon (and a Few Others)

Greenshopper.com, the “world’s largest environmentally friendly super store,” looks quite a bit like Amazon. There’s a reason for that: it’s basically just a front end for Amazon, except the products displayed are “green.” What makes a product green, according to GreenShopper?

We have often wanted to come up with a list of criteria that makes a product green, but it’s very difficult because we have almost 1,000 different categories of products (and the list grows daily). For example, we focuse on products made from pesticde-free sustainable materials, such as organic cotton, bamboo, hemp, recycled, etc materials. However, we also include products that reduce your energy consumption, such as CFL light bulbs and weatherization products. A light bulb by itself is not necessarily made from sustainable materials, but it reduces our coal burning fossil fuel consumption and is the best current green alternative. The bottom line is that any products you find on this website will be the best current green alternative that we could find and as new technologies replace old ones, we update the inventory accordingly.

More or less it’s a giant hand-picked product list, but the sheer number of products they’ve punched into the database is worth something. Might want to spellcheck the F.A.Q., though.

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