Hey all!
We are a free-to-use sustainability rating system and shopping network. Our goal is to create a one-stop-shop to find sustainable products in your area and get connected to great vendors.
Imagine knowing how much energy, water and resources it took to make something - shopping all the local farmer markets from your couch and knowing about their products down to the pesticides they use - seeing a map to show where all the materials came from - having a consolidated place to ask questions and learn about sustainability - that's eco-locals.com!
Here's what a transparent sustainability listing looks like - we're still updating UI but feel free to give us input!
We're like etsy, kijiji or ebay but listings have to meet our three minimum requirements to get listed.
Our minimum requirements are covered in another post, Is Carbon Management or Vague Labeling Ever Going To Be Enough? But, for the sake of saving you a minute, the three min reqs
1 ) Over 50% extracted and harvested within 1,000 km from the final manufacturing
2 ) Over 50% recycled, re-used or upcycled if
3 ) Cannot contain environmentally or biologically harmful chemicals (e.g. palm oil, corn syrup, msg, artificial dyes, etc.)
Our unique sustainability reporting tools are also covered in another post, Holistic Sustainability Reporting for Consumer Product and Meals But, for the sake of saving you a minute, the two types of voluntary labels are:
A. Environmental Product Declarations: Based on ISO Standardized (or equivalent) reporting of:
-Energy use (in kwh) per unit or kg – exempt if 100% rain and sunshine grown
-Blue, grey and black water use per unit or kg – exempt if 100% rain and sunshine grown
-Recycled content percentage per unit or kg
-Renewable energy percentage per unit or kg
-Regional content percentage per unit or kg
-CO2 equivalent per unit or kg
-Company diversion rate
B. Green Commitments: Proprietary sustainability labels developed by our team which cover sustainability topics that are often forgotten. Such as: waste diversion, rapidly renewable material use, container recycling, renewable energy use, etc. There are ~three promises per category ranging across:
-Beauty Products
-Chemicals
-Electronics
-Produce Farming
-Animal Farming
-Manufacturing
-Restaurants.
-(Businesses and Services coming soon!)
These are dynamic and updated to reflect community feedback and needs.
We learned about partiko and the steempower incentive through @d00k13's post.
Thank you to @pennsif for including us in the weekly sustainability roundup.
Shout-out to @homesteaderscoop for doing great work in the community as well!
Check out some of our other posts, follow and resteem if we have your interest! Stay tuned for our dtube sustainability lessons and content coming soon!
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Sustainable Purchasing: The Missing Piece
Thanks Team!