Nigel’s Green Web Awards - the winners!
Tuesday, August 5th, 2008 by Nigel
I’m extremely excited and very proud to announce the winners of the Nigel’s Green Web Awards 2008. More than any medium today, the web has the power to create communities that can change the world, to inform, and to shape opinion. I believe that what we can achieve online today will have a massive influence on what the world becomes tomorrow.
Our mission in creating our Green Web Awards was to find the people who were in the vanguard of creating a greener future online, because as I said here a few weeks ago, there isn’t enough kudos given to those who get it right.
This is about helping the green web grow. So Nigel’s Eco Store was really fortunate to get on board some outstanding figures to judge the awards - people like Bonnie Alter from treehugger.com, Adam Vaughan from Smart Planet, Ed Gillespie from Futerra and Tracy Stokes of EcoStreet, all people with great green credentials who also know what makes the web tick.
The web is now a central part of our lives. We expect the sites we visit to be authoritative, dynamic and talking to us in ways that we understand. I hope we’ve been able to shine a light on some of the very best green web sites there are. I was pleased to see some of my favourites come up.
Take a look at the winners and judge for yourselves. And then Have Your Say:
You’ve seen what our judges think are the Best Green Websites of 2008 – tell us what sites you think should have won, leave a comment or some feedback below….
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August 5th, 2008 at 12:19 pm
You might want to look at Tiger Enterprise for the most green company - check them out at www.reuseitdontloseit.co.uk
Tiger take surplus building materials from the big building contractors and resell them to the public and the small builders. With 25% of the UK’s carbon footprint coming from the construction industry, and 30% of materials being wasted you can see how Tiger is making a real contribution to the environment.
And, yes I do have an interest in the company, as they’re my clients, but they’re clients because I think its such as wonderful idea.
August 5th, 2008 at 12:20 pm
For Green Travel my vote goes to www.isanyonegoingto.com
Bringing Car Pooling to the 21st Century.
www.isanyonegoingto.com uses Social Networking to circumvent the awkwardness of sharing a vehicle journey.
Give it a try….
August 7th, 2008 at 3:59 pm
What a great marketing ploy! Hardly partial voting for your own company or for a fellow judges’. Thought they were meant o be impartial - hardly ethical and lacks credibility!
August 7th, 2008 at 4:23 pm
Great idea! Several of those sites definitely get my vote - Smart Planet, Innocent, Ecover, We Are What We Do among them. I’m quite a fan of Times Online’s Eco Worrier, Natural Collection and Self Sufficientish too.
August 7th, 2008 at 4:57 pm
Janie - none of the judges were allowed to vote for their own site, and all the results were earned on merit from the other judges voting from them. If we had stopped judges voting for other judges’ sites that would have excluded deserving sites like Treehugger, EcoStreet or Green Thing…
August 8th, 2008 at 11:11 am
Well for awards to be impartial you need an absolute independent panel - the eco world is full of alliances so to me these awards lack credibility. I like the idea of what you have done but to me this is just a marketing stunt! It works though…
August 14th, 2008 at 12:16 pm
Ha
You forgot www.renew-reuse-recycle.com. Its a great site for all of you interested in domestic renewables, solar heating, PV, and windturbines and the like.
GreenBean
August 18th, 2008 at 2:10 pm
Congrats to the winners.There are so many great eco sites and another one I would love to share is ecobites.com - a green community with loads of green / eco info. http://ecobites.com/
August 22nd, 2008 at 10:57 pm
Here’s another good one…www.greensolutionsmag.com. It’s an on-line magazine designed to report information about environmental solutions and services, expert recommendations, best practices, products, tools and other solution-based news and resources to help economies, communities, businesses and individuals with alternative options that they can implement to create sustainability, prevent destructive impacts on or improve the quality of the environment.
August 23rd, 2008 at 2:25 am
You might want to look at http://www.ecovian.com as a green community website, lots of great content, especially around local businesses & issues
August 24th, 2008 at 11:39 pm
I would give a greenwash award to one of the judges, Joanna Yarrow, whose blog isnt a blog but a website, and its sponsored by ariel! http://www.doagoodturn.co.uk/sustainability_media/sustainability_joanna_blog.php at the footer says Procter & Gamble 2007©. So much for independent thinking.
August 25th, 2008 at 4:46 pm
Get a bunch of bloggers who have picked up a bit of knowledge on the topic here and there and get them to pad each other’s backs instead of asking some people who actually know about environmental issues. Where’s the quality assurance? Don’t turn the eco world into an exclusive club of maties! It’s supposed to catch on to the greater public! Congrats to the winners!
August 26th, 2008 at 11:50 am
Your credibility was shot as soon as I saw the judges judging the judges. Throw it open for the web surfers to decide and your winners would automatically become losers…but, there is no fun in that. For example, I used to visit treehugger and ecostreet, but they are losing the plot to genuine lifestyle communities like www.ecobites.com who have a genuine interest in all things healthy, not just a way of making money.
August 26th, 2008 at 5:40 pm
@Mr.B: So you don’t consider bloggers as experts then? In my experience bloggers (the good ones anyway) often know more about the subjects they blog about than many of the the established ‘experts’. Think of how much research and reading usually goes into the average blog post…!
@Richard - its not like the judges all voted for each other - only a few of the judges’s own sites won an award. But I agree that opening the voting to the public would be cool for next time. Oh and i dont understand your point about ‘not just a way of making money’ - ecobites.com has ads on its site too! (btw you’re not this Richard are you? http://ecobites.com/teamcontact ;))
August 28th, 2008 at 4:20 pm
to explain green energy, carbon offsets, and what an individual or company can do about it all, i like to refer people to www.nativeenergy.com Yes, they are selling their own renewable energy and offsets, but nonetheless, their site is a good source to explain what an offset really is (or isn’t), what renewable energy is, what is ‘additionality,’ and so on, in plain language.
my opinion, anyway.
August 29th, 2008 at 11:47 am
As one of the judges I think a lot of you make the valid point of judges’ sites winning, which is hard to avoid in this format. Next time it would be good if anyone was allowed to vote for the sites they think are best too.
September 5th, 2008 at 5:47 am
well this is useful… (at least for me)
very thanks
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September 5th, 2008 at 5:24 pm
BBC Bloom for best Climate Change Website category
Bloom is a new BBC website that aims to cut through the climate change confusion and empower people to adopt more climate-friendly lifestyles: www.bbc.co.uk/bloom
September 5th, 2008 at 5:25 pm
Or BBC Thread for Ethical Fashion:
www.bbc.co.uk/thread
September 18th, 2008 at 7:31 pm
Oh for goodness sake - can’t you see, Nigel, that even in stating the judges ‘didn’t vote for themselves’ still doesnt make it ok that the judges websites won awards? It’s clearly just a load of shameless backslapping! You can’t seriously expect intelligent people to fall for it.
Leave it to the PEOPLE to decided what websites are most USEFUL TO THEM, not the people who make the websites.
Extremely unethical, no matter how you spin it.
September 28th, 2008 at 8:39 pm
I think what you have done is a great idea, but its such a shame that the sites that are getting all the recognition are the bigger brands - many of whom are recently jumping on the band wagon.
In addition, when it comes to green beauty, and toxin free beauty, I think its a shame that the awards didn’t recognise many of the stores who really are doing great things with ranges etc.
November 17th, 2008 at 10:24 pm
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November 28th, 2008 at 1:01 pm
Congratulation Nigel on the initiative to present the best green websites.
We have launched our site http://www.people4earth.net in August 2008, so we have missed this year’s competition. I hope you will include our site next year
I also suggest a green blog that I like very much http://green-pepper.org.uk/
November 28th, 2008 at 11:01 pm
What a fantastic idea to present the best Green websites. I hope our new website http://www.greenearthfriend.com we launched recently can be included next year. It is an eco-friendly and green website, similar to treehugger…check it out and Go Green!
December 4th, 2008 at 1:45 am
Hello Folks,
This is an excellent green resource website, well done.
I thought I would introduce my kerbside recycling project, PullApart, it’s currently just local to Teignbridge. PullApart’s basic specifications are:
Covers all three known local kerbside system.
Pulls apart over 2000 product’s packaging.
Displays packaging parts as refuse bins.
Uses a 13 stage grading system devised by me to determine best and worst, for environmental and consumer cost.
Database is fully user searchable.
Drills down to local recyclable parts not listed by local council.
Used by local people to inform/confirm which packaging parts go where, and recycling awareness.
Can be viewed whilst shopping.
Able to be migrated to any other council area.
Please visit:http://www.pullapart.co.uk
As you can see from the above my unique project operates on a number of levels, and has been successfully running now for about 3 years. Is this of interest to you good people?
December 30th, 2008 at 8:41 pm
For a list of the best environmental social networks please see my new web site. Please also suggest any futher ones I should add.
January 18th, 2009 at 6:03 pm
Nigel,
Excellent and thanks for all you do.
www.ctngreen.com would like to interview you for our upcoming magazine issue(s) and or News area when you have a moment and feel inclined.
www.ctngreen.com/mag
www.ctngreen.com/news
We also have an award, “Excellence” Seal that is ntended to recognize under-reported sustainable acts of green, and would be honored if you would like to join our panel for the occasional reccommendations and judging
Keeping it Green
Jeff at CTNgreen dot com
January 20th, 2009 at 7:21 pm
I nominate www.planetgreen.weebly.com for such a splendid job on their website. It has interesting facts and lifechanging tips. It’s my favorite website!
January 26th, 2009 at 3:01 am
All good choices, the winners, although i see many here would nominate other quite worthy sites. still, i thought i was well-educated as to web resources on ‘green’ issues (i am an environmental consultant) yet still found here sites i hadn’t known and from some of them pulled a really useful nugget or two i hadn’t found elsewhere–congrats.
i also note that your winning sites are by and large very well designed and friendly.
the only quibble i have is on the other extreme–the ‘worst’ sites. the fact that clean coal, so called, only got runner up was a shock. this is definitely my candidate for the most viciously harmful, intentional deceitful ad/web campaign in my memory. just the worst, and planned and executed in full knowledge of its own deceitfulness, meaning its designers and perpetrators are cons and frauds and know it.
oh well….everything else here i applaud! and even that last thing is just a cranky complaint, even if sincerely meant.
b
February 12th, 2009 at 8:05 pm
I likes the blog a lot but one thing is missing. Sharing !
All the info, education and knowledge is out there,one thing left- to share this info. To give the stage to share, exchange, give and take knowledge for the best of us all and the planet !
Lina
March 25th, 2009 at 9:03 pm
You should definitely take a look at www.iloveeco.com it’s a bit of a hybrid between your beauty & health/ethical fashion/blog categories. I find the posts to be extremely well written and educational. The author, Julia Vasic, seems very passionate about sustainable living but doesn’t shove it down your throat like some authors. I also really like the logo, very simple, clean, and well utilized.
April 13th, 2009 at 1:16 pm
I think Go-Greener should have win the award for greenest company
It’s in the name….
August 6th, 2009 at 7:14 pm
Congrats to all the winners but I think there are a few that are missing so I’m not sure if the entries were all that comprehensive.
How about Freshtwig.com? Ecofabulous.com? Lighterfootsteps.com?
August 27th, 2009 at 3:22 pm
Hi, I would like to know about entering our new ‘green’ portal, http://www.greenvehiclenetwork.com into the 2009 awards?
October 23rd, 2009 at 11:06 am
Just to let you know that we’re about to launch the second Green Web Awards.
Following some great feedback on our blog, we’ve decided to make the awards a tad more democratic. So this year, anybody can nominate a site in any category. Nominations open on Monday 26 October and unlike many other awards, there is absolutely no charge for nominating an entry.
Our expert panel will then draw up a short-list of nominated sites in each category, based on two criteria: the volume of nominations received for each entry, and their personal opinion and expertise.
No expert will be asked to adjudicate on a site or activity in which they have any personal interest.
We’ll then be asking everyone to vote on their favourites, with the winners to be announced in January 2009.
So nominate your favorite sites here: http://www.nigelsecostore.com/green-web-awards/
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