{"id":407620,"date":"2010-03-09T12:04:25","date_gmt":"2010-03-09T17:04:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.greenrightnow.com\/?p=9730"},"modified":"2010-03-09T12:04:25","modified_gmt":"2010-03-09T17:04:25","slug":"ebay-opens-green-shopping-hub","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/407620","title":{"rendered":"eBay opens green shopping hub"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>From Green Right Now Reports<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>eBay, that giant online garage sale, announced today that it will offer a new green shopping hub.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_9731\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"width: 176px\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-9731\" title=\"EYPA000020002_lt\" src=\"http:\/\/www.greenrightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/EYPA000020002_lt.jpg\" alt=\"Mandala Record Clock made from an old vinyl album, and sold on eBay\" width=\"166\" height=\"166\" \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Mandala Record Clock made from an old vinyl album, and sold on eBay<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>The hub will help shoppers identify products that are green by virtue of being vintage or used; made of sustainable materials or designed to save energy.<\/p>\n<p>The new shopping hub was formed as a response to eBay\u2019s \u201cGreen Team\u201d shoppers who\u2019ve taken a pledge to be green. This online community, which eBay says is about 150,000 strong, has \u201ccommitted to making greener lifestyle choices.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Concurrently, eBay is partnering with Team Earth, a coalition of NGOs and private sector companies, to protect rainforests. For the first 250,000 people who pledge to reuse on eBay through its \u201cGreen Team Challenge\u201d the company will protect an acre of rainforest in their name.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe are delighted that eBay continues to demonstrate their strong support for the environment by becoming a member of Team Earth,\u201d said Julie Blackwell, Senior Director of Team Earth at Conservation International. \u201ceBay\u2019s passionate community has changed the way we shop and we have no doubt that they can change the way we consume. They are a perfect partner to rally collective action around some of the most pressing environmental issues of our day.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>To stress its point about reusing consumer goods, eBay worked with Cooler, Inc., which calculates the carbon footprint of goods and activities, to develop some comparisons between recycled or reused items and the carbon cost of their new counterparts.<\/p>\n<p>Cooler Inc. found that:<\/p>\n<p>\u2022\tChoosing a previously-loved leather handbag saves as much energy as a flight from London to Paris<\/p>\n<p>\u2022\tSelecting a previously owned watch saves the energy equivalent of 39 days of refrigerator use<\/p>\n<p>\u2022\tChoosing previously-worn leather shoes saves more energy than an average household uses in a day<\/p>\n<p>For more details on using eBay more greenly, and on supporting the rainforest preservation, see the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ebay.com\/greenteam\" >Green Team webpage<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From Green Right Now Reports eBay, that giant online garage sale, announced today that it will offer a new green shopping hub. Mandala Record Clock made from an old vinyl album, and sold on eBay The hub will help shoppers identify products that are green by virtue of being vintage or used; made of sustainable [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6460,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-407620","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/407620","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6460"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=407620"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/407620\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=407620"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=407620"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=407620"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}