As mentioned previously, we’ve been assembling a Green-themed domain name bank.
We’ve sold a few here and there but nothing serious enough to really mention, so far. We’re working to change this and have recently posted a “for lease or sale” notice on most of them. Should you come across any of our domains listed or otherwise, please don’t hesitate to contact us. We can probably work something out…and if not the first time ’round, can always add you to our call list should our prices on a specific domain name you inquire about change.
We’ve got a number of other plans in the works regarding domain registration and much more so be sure to check back to see what else is happening with our services and products.
Green Gurus is on the prowl for some new tech-driven team members.
Our team is comprised of a wide-range of talents from sustainable energy systems designers, feature film miniature and mechanical engineers, sustainable architects, Second Life programmers, and a host of other skills. Our projects range from multi-thousand person events, to on-air consulting, to feature films, to eCommerce, to manufacturing, and much, much more.
We’re well connected and very active in the Los Angeles underground modern tribal scene (cliche yes, but it fits the part), utilizing a vast range of science, technologies and metaphysics.
Here are our current task priorities:
1. Our site: GreenGurus.net
We’ve got to nail down a site design fitting of our name and team’s skills. We’ll have a much better conversion rate in closing new clients if we get this locked down.
2. Our keyword domains
We’ve got around 500 domains, most of them green-themed: We’re looking into monetizing a bunch, selling some and building out others.
3. Green eCommerce platform
One of our other companies, Distinctivefabric.com has an extensive, proprietary code base that we’re looking to overhaul into a green eCommerce platform and then license and/or sell.
4. Solar powered web hosting
We’re working towards our own solar powered data center chain, but until we’ve raised the money to put that together, we’ll be running on a dedicated server through AISO.net, configuration with them happening right now, should be up and running within the next week.
If any of these projects appeal to you and you think you’d like to explore a potential partnership with us to help manifest any of these items, then please let us know. We’re only able to pay through profit-sharing, performance-based pay and/or sweat equity right now. Assuming we get our site up to snuff, we can really start creating some exciting and meaningful compensation opportunities.
We continue to receive steadily increasing inquiries, have got some great natural page ranking on Google, especially under “green consulting” search terms, our team member’s individual projects and companies continue to complement our own here, and much more.
You are adept in any of these programs/languages/CMS:
PHP, MySQL, Python, Perl, Ruby, RoR, Ajax, Java/JavaScript, XML/XHTML, Drupal/Joomla/etc., WordPress (including installs), Apache/Debian, Photoshop/The Gimp, Illustrator, Quark, InDesign, AutoCad, Maya, Flash, ActionScripting, API interfacing, version control systems, Unix, ProTools, Logic, Ableton Live, and any other language or science you’re competent with in producing results.
You have experience from school and/or on-the-job training, can provide live and close to or fully completed projects online, have a working/proficient understanding of iterative, agile and atomic coding techniques/philosophies, and are otherwise a bad-ass online.
Preferably: you work in open source, off a Mac or Linux box, but have some working understanding of PC to get around should the need arise; live within the US, ideally w/in CA > Los Angeles…if not, possibilities still exist. Telecommunicating okay.
Please submit any relative content, links, resumes, or other media format…just be creative, inventive, entrepreneurial, and socially/eco-conscious in your approach to contacting us.
Also, see our ad on Craigslist.
Shena, our Chief Green Officer, is scheduled to speak at the upcoming South By Southwest festival.
She’ll be speaking on the “It’s Not Easy Being Green” panel:
Room 12AB
Saturday, March 15th
12:00 pm - 1:15 pm
Here’s the panel description:
“Music business initiatives in the environmental field are gaining traction, most notably in the touring and recording fields. Great numbers of initiatives and solutions are offered, more than any one company can process. How does one choose which efforts to undertake?”
She’ll be joining Kelly Cox (Integrated Mktg, NRDC) and Neal Turley (Ringmaster, Who Is Guy Grand), who’ll be moderating the panel.
If you’re in the area or are already planning to go, be sure to check it out and say hi if you can.
Wish her luck!
The Great Pacific Garbage Patch is really, truly unconscionable.
It blows my mind that nearly every single article I’ve come across in my research states that “There’s nothing we can do about it now…” (Eriksen, October 19, 2007). What kind of asinine, uncaring and lazy response is this?
In case you haven’t yet heard of this man-made atrocity, there is a collection of human waste (mostly plastic trash), that has piled up into a floating island (some say two islands), twice the size of Texas, about 1,000 miles west of San Francisco. What’s even more astounding to me anyway, is that this has been known to exist for the better part of half a century now (though it was until the last few decades that it’s neared its current size).
An article from the San Francisco Chronicle states:
“Ocean current patterns may keep the flotsam stashed in a part of the world few will ever see, but the majority of its content is generated onshore, according to a report from Greenpeace last year titled “Plastic Debris in the World’s Oceans.”
This is just totally unacceptable.
Having just learned of this recently and then really took a hard look at it today, I can no longer, in good conscience, continue to write off this horrendous creation and let it continue unabated. To that end, I have just registered a domain which I hope to evolve into the official, leading source of information, activism and action against this atrocity. In the coming months, I hope to raise funds to start dismantling this floating island of trash, generate significant publicity, donate hundreds if not thousands of hours and dollars, both of my own and others, to turn the tides on this.
The GreatPacificGarbagePatch.com will serve as my central focus on what I hope grows into a massive wide effort to eradicate this abysmal by-product of our global industries. I hope that you will join me in my efforts, in whatever way you can.
Stay tuned for more info on this including a website, blog, donation system, and much more.
“A new study suggests that baby lotion, baby powder, and baby shampoo may be exposing babies to potentially harmful chemicals called phthalates.”
“Phthalates are used to make plastics flexible and stabilize fragrances, and are found in a plethora of consumer products including toys, personal care products and medical equipment.”
All the more reason to go green, organic and as sustainable as possible within your grocery and other supply shopping trips…some great alternatives you could use in place would be Jason’s, for instance. Otherwise, be sure to really do your homework online and if necessary, go so far as to contact the manufacturers directly before purchasing any products you’re uncertain of (or us if you’re not sure how to go about this).
A friend of mine pointed out recently that she thought that 2008 would be a year of uncertainty in within the ecological movement.
This was right on track with where we as a team here, think we can be of service: figuring out those next or even first steps on your path to becoming more green and sustainable.
Some of the simplest steps you can take to reduce and reuse throughout your day include:
- reusing store-bought drink containers such as the POM Tea* glasses: great for on-the-go drink containers (just be careful as they are glass and will break easily when dropped)
- reusing plastic grocery bags as trash bags, particularly in the bathroom, as well as a perfect use for changing your cats litter
- saving the twist-ties from produce for future use for tying up electrical cables (especially all those USB, TV and video game cables)
*Check out this great example of POM Tea glass containers being reused as household glass, from Doug’s cooking blog:
Anyway, these are just a sprinkling of easy and immediate steps you can take to start reducing your level of consumption and waste production. Of course, buying less and less newly made products are another great step, but that’s more of a sacrifice that still many aren’t ready to make.
Either way, 2008 is a great year to start spending less and when you’ve got to, try to shop for items produced as close to home as possible and, be sure to keep your eye out for free and fair trade merchandise. If you don’t see a label touting this, do some digging before you so readily hand over your money. The cost of whatever it is you think you need is more than likely many times more than what you’re actually dishing out, be sure to consider (or research if need be):
- where the materials were sourced from
- where the item was manufactured
- how they were transported (if any such logistics were involved)
- whether or not it’s recyclable and made from recycled materials
- whether or not the manufacturer / brand name is donating any of its profits back to the planet
Just remember that every little step does in fact make a difference and that it’s all actually quite a bit of fun, once you start peering under the hood of all your favorite brands, you can really learn a lot. Not only about your preferred book seller or MP3 player, but also the processes with which these companies utilize in producing their goods and then finally getting them to you.
No matter where you start, how extensive or narrow your first steps, it’s well worth the effort. And as Adam Wiggins states in his Heroku blog:
“Getting your head around it may hurt a bit, but the effort will pay off very nicely in the long run.”
So true.
Shena and I recently attended Co-op America’s annual Green Festiva, in San Francisco.
We drove up with The Do LaB twins (Josh and Jesse) in a Honda Civic Hybrid from LAX to downtown SF on one tank (…nice!) and then met up with some old friends for a long night of wide-ranging talks.
The next day we hit the Green Fest at about 12-pm, where we met up with an even older friend Brent Hurley, a fellow Twin Valley graduate of mine. I also ran into an old friend from LA, Onyay, who had performed the day before with the Shakti Tribe, which I was sorry to have missed. Most of the day was then spent nearly fighting through the ample crowd for numerous free samples of holistic goodness in all shapes, sizes and colors; examined nearly each and every vendor for the latest, innovative Green…stuff.
And boy was there stuff, so much productization in fact, that we were literally stumbling over it all to get from booth to booth. Not only had the event not evolved from last year’s nicely balanced collection of (yes) products (they’re still a hook-line-and-sink for many), new technologies, services, and speakers to this year’s onslaught of nearly pure products. It was really quite disappoint, at least to me.
From an event that claims to be the world’s leading expo in sustainability, I really expected some measure of progression, anything to keep things fresh and innovative, not inundated with the same ol’ recipe for products waste known the world over.
That all being said, it’s still a great time for those curious about all the fuss and in need of alternative resources.
Just like Burning Man, the Green Festival has seemingly reached a pinnacle or threshold for that genuine raw creative inspiration I admire in innovative, truly ground-breaking events such as The Do LaB’s own Lightning In A Bottle, an alternative event growing in mass appeal that combines both the latter two events prized distinctions: radical self-expression and sustainability, respectively.
Anyway, the event was worth attending at least to see first-hand, just how much the Green wave has spread in the last year alone. In terms of sheer publicity for this movement, Co-op America is doing a fine job at getting the word out.
While things have been pretty quiet on our website recently, we’ve been quite busy behind the scenes with the filing of our LLC status, redefining our mission statement and much more. Read on below for more info on all the latest…
First of all, we’d like to welcome our newest team member, Elizabeth Marley, our first resident, sustainable architectural designer. She’s a graduate of the Los Angeles-based school, the Southern California Institute of Architecture.
Also, our mission statement has been coming along and we’ve posted it on our about page here. Feel free to let us know what you think of it, we’d appreciate the feedback, just as we would on anything else about our company.
Lastly, we’ve begun work in earnest on our non-profit side of operations over the last few weeks, and things are moving along nicely. Our website is registered, hosting has been activated, a blog and other info will be up in a few days, and much more.
Check it out here, soon:
www.greengurus.org
We’ve created a 10 Steps 2 Green list for people and businesses to refer to when evaluating where or how to begin, on their own path towards sustainability.
Some of the items listed are quite simple while others quickly reach a level of
complexity and cost not all of us can yet obtain. So really it’s just a nice spring-
board from which one can quickly and easily evaluate and than implement those
steps most fitting to them.
We’ll be expaning upon this in the future with more detail, product and service
provider recommendations, and some similar lists of recommendations or steps,
for other area’s not mentioned already.
And of course, highly customizable plans based on your needs are available via
our consulting services. Feel free to contact us for a quote anytime.
Welcome to the first installment of many Green blogs to come from GreenGurus.net.
We’re very excited to begin sharing a wide range of information, experiences, insights,
opinions, and any other related content we feel pertinent regarding the rapidly growing
Green consciousness and awareness sweeping the Earth, the global warming crisis, and
so much more…
We hope to build a strong community of passionate, motivated and interactive Eco-lovers
here and look forward to everyone’s feedback.
In the meantime, we’re continuing to develop our team, website and a number of other details,
so if your eager for more info regarding our services, we’ll be happy to receive your questions
and get back to you just as soon as we can.
Thanks for reading and we look forward to hearing from you soon!
