208-596-6500 | Today, the EcoSector Portal celebrates its 30th Public Profile, Sarasota Green Marketplace, one of the first green home and building retail centers in the country. I was especially fascinated by the sister site, Sarasota Green Connection, a green business and community building site just for Sarasota. In this one spot, over 200 green leaders, companies, and organizations can be found.
Discovering hotbeds of the Eco Sector is always exiting to me. One of my goals in building the EcoSector Portal is to help convey the depth of this shift in the economy to the general public, especially people who are discovering it for the first time. It’s been a great month for the Portal, with one new Profile added every other day, including one each from China and India. The number of green economic leaders collected by SGM’s founder Mary Anne Bowie gives a strong indication of just how huge the global Eco Sector is already.
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Mar 08
The Green Vblogger
The other day I mentioned how I added YouTube capability to Public Profiles. The person who inspired me to do this was Cheryl Janis of www.planetpinkngreen.com who had posted a Public Profile at the EcoSector Portal.
Cheryl calls herself a “an eco-citizen-journalist”. A big part of the green economy is the “mindspace” of it all — Cheryl captures a charming, funky, and fun side of the eco-sector by interviewing live eco-preneurs, making neat videos like this one, and posting them on her blogsite:
I enjoy this show immensely — watched it several times — and have spent quite a while on Cheryl’s site. I think planetpinkngreen gives a great sense of what’s possible in the green economy, and an deep view of how “new media” and the green economy are flowing together.