Snooth hoping to simplify how people select, interact with and purchase their favorite wines.
Snooth is trying to become the world’s most comprehensive wine database, featuring millions of reviews and hundreds of thousands of wines. It will offer both casual and aspiring wine drinkers personalized wine recommendations, ratings & reviews, as well as a wine information search tool that seamlessly connects users to the websites of top online merchants and wineries worldwide.
Snooth launched in June 2007.
[Via PSFK]
This a digital twist to the traditional farmers market. The site LocalFoodshop.co.uk helps customers find locally produced food and drink.
The site says:
The aim for Localfoodshop is to help you to identify your local suppliers of quality, fresh, seasonal produce. You buy direct, keeping your money in the local economy and supporting local farmers and artisan producers.
At Localfoodshop, 93% of the sale value goes straight to the producer. Compare this to the supermarkets! And the remaining 7% supports the social enterprise which runs the site, re-investing any profits back into the local food sector.
This looks like another step in the right direction whereby people can find things locally and so help local commerce and reduce the burden on the environment…
[Via PSFK]
Brilliant post on the emergence of a store created to be at the heart of the community, and aiming to make environmentally-aware shopping mainstream, desirable and convenient.
This builds on the whole ethos of provinding services locally2u, forget the words ‘eco’ or ‘green’ and ‘plastic bags made from 33% recycled material’, how about going back to the good old days of community shops where products are locally-grown and packaging is provided by the customer or only used as a necessity…
At Unpackaged, we’re not in the business of ‘greenwashing’, we’ll tell you honestly what we are doing now, as a small organisation, and what we hope to do in the future.
Apart from the teas, all of the products we source are certified organic
We always source fair trade products where possible
We do not sell any products that are air freighted
We give preference to suppliers who are cooperatives or social enterprises
We apply the principles of the waste hierarchy: reduce, reuse and recycle
We plan efficiently to minimise any transportation by ourselves and our suppliers
The Future
We are developing an extensive sustainability policy based on our triple bottom line which will be transparent, measurable and cover every aspect of our business. This will be published and we will provide regular updates on our progress, always striving to improve our performance and look for new and better ways to work. The policy will cover, in depth, the following elements of our business:
- Products
- Suppliers
- Use of any packaging
- Waste
- Energy consumption
- Transport
- Community involvement
More commentary can be found here at PSFK…
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Posted by Happydude | Posted in Music, Startups, Technology | Posted on 16-11-2007
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Ever had a tune stuck in your head but can’t remeber what it is? Will this new site Midomi looks like its here to help. all you have to do is whistle into your computers microphone, and this online search engine will match the tune against its evergrowing musical library. The customer then has the option to purchase the track and can connect with others who share the same musical interests.
[Via Springwise]
