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Ecomonkey Green Rewards

The first UK programme that rewards customers who take steps to go green.

Startup type: Company
Status: Active
Stage: Beta
Publicity: Open to speaking to journalists.
Funding: Friends and Family, Self-funded
Industries: Cleantech, Information Technology, Internet, Lifestyle
Location: UK
Website: http://www.ecomonkey.co.uk

ABOUT US

We are a small start up with a big idea.

Starting with the question "What if going green was a bit easier?" we did a load of research. Consumers have lots of valid reasons why they don't green their act. What is more those of us who think and speak green are not as green as we would like to think!

So, we came up with a green points programme, like air miles but for the green good.

Green shopping is still regarded as very much a niche, so why not use a tried and tested approach to incentivising small changes in behaviour?

Getting lots of people doing small things seemed an attractive wy of effecting big change, so it had to be easy and obviously, at least initially, online.

Of course, the best bits are hidden from view. Not to mention a drawing board of ideas that is overflowing.

Now what if we could find a way to get people to trade-in those air miles? And similar keeps us awake at night.

THINGS WE NEED

  • Collaborators and co-finance to take to next level.

    Posted by philip immirzi 6 months ago

COMMENTS (2)

  • Sean Gourley Sean Gourley wrote (2 months ago):

    awesome site - looking forward to seeing where it goes from here.

  • Bob Goodson Bob Goodson wrote (6 months ago):

    Cool idea, and I like the name. Wouldn't everyone want to be an EcoMonkey?

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  • philip immirzi philip immirzi

    After working in the fields of environment (research and consultancy and then public administration), I am now playing the entrepreneur.

Followers (11)

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  • Sean Gourley Sean Gourley

    New Zealander, Rhodes Scholar at Oxford University, PhD in Physics specializing in 'networks and complexity', just finished a research fellowship at Oxford in the quantitative analysis of war and terrorism.

  • Bob Goodson Bob Goodson

    British, working in San Francisco on startup YouNoodle. Runaway Oxford medievalist. Former Yelpee.

  • Ruediger Rothenbusch Ruediger Rothenbusch

    Visiting Scholar at Stanford, interested in CleanTech / Education Startups

  • Eric Eaglstun Eric Eaglstun

    Web developer living in Phoenix, AZ.