We are incredibly excited to introduce you to the GoodGuide Blog. We have been working away quietly for the last two years – first at the University of California, Berkeley, and most recently in GoodGuide’s world headquarters in downtown San Francisco – building the world’s largest and most reliable source of information on the environmental, social, and health performance of products and companies. The goal of this work is simple: to help you find safe, healthy, and green products.
And this week – finally – we get to show you what we have been building. Last Wednesday, we launched our beta Web site at the TechCrunch50 conference. Check out our presentation:
As you will see, this is a very early beta. But the feedback we have been getting has been amazing. We even won a Jury Award at the conference last week. Read more on our press page.
But does the world really need one more blog? It turns out… yes.
One of the amazing things about the years of research we have been conducting is that we are constantly uncovering surprising facts about products and companies we thought we knew.
This blog will take you beyond our data and ratings, digging into some of the surprising stories we find as we look beneath the label of the products we consume every day. From shampoos to laptops to frying pans to the food we eat, there are a host of surprises. This blog will focus in part on product contents, looking at what is actually inside many common products, what functions those ingredients play, what risks they pose, and what alternatives there are to these chemicals.
We also want to dig into production networks: who actually makes the products we are buying? What corporation owns the brand you thought you knew? What are their policies and practices? And what were the impacts of making the product on the environment? On workers? On our health?
We will also provide quick summaries and commentary on breaking news stories and recent scientific studies. As news stories emerge about lead paint on kids’ toys, toxic chemicals in toothpastes, health impacts of baby shampoos, or sweatshop scandals in clothing and electronics firms, we want to help put them in context. And as always, we will be working to help you find safer, healthier, and greener products.
We also want to hear from you. We would love for you to participate in this conversation. Leave us comments. Ask questions. Disagree with us.
But most importantly, look beneath the label, and then Find What’s Good For You!
Michael Odza
on Sep 25, 2008
at 08:44 PM
Michael Odza
on Sep 25, 2008
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ofelia manship
on Sep 28, 2008
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Scott O'Brien
on Mar 14, 2009
at 11:30 AM