Comments on: U.S. Green Product Council Debated

By: Shannon

Shannon — Fri, 03 Jul 2009 03:35:12 +0000

I think the website for disclosures on the different products is actually goodguide.com

By: Environmental Leader

Environmental Leader — Thu, 25 Jun 2009 17:31:25 +0000

I don’t see a reference to greenguide.com in the story. Do you mean the FTC green guides that are being updated? You can find those at http://www.ftc.gov/bcp/grnrule/guides980427.htm

By: Laura

Laura — Thu, 25 Jun 2009 14:40:53 +0000

Tried to find the greenguide.com but it doesn’t appear to be a live site. Is there another url?

By: Jeff9

Jeff9 — Fri, 19 Jun 2009 02:49:55 +0000

Yep that’s what we need, more government or quasi-government regulation and intervention to tell us what’s what; what’s green, what’s good and bad and how much government we need to take care of us too. I have a very green product and I submitted it to Green Peace and the Sierra Club(2 overly bureaucratic entrenched entities) and neither of them saw it as being green enough for their point of view. The point is large organizations are traditionally slow moving and more interested in their own preservation than they are in trying to advance new ideas and your suggested Green Council would do more harm than good. Let the people decide for themselves….they have a brain afterall.

By: Tom Larsen

Tom Larsen — Thu, 18 Jun 2009 12:35:59 +0000

Dara O’Rourke from the University of California, Berkeley with a wide range of colleagues from multiple disciplines and campuses has already created the GreenGuide.com a website with full disclosure on many, many products. He just launched an iPhone app that reads the bar codes and provides the data.
It would appear this work is already done, it just needs to be embraced and expanded. That sounds like a funding issue.