11 Sep, 2008
Top 5 Green Shops
Posted by: admin In: Environmental| Green News| Green Shopping| Green Websites
Eco friendly shopping is becoming more widely available on the web, here is a list of my top 5 green shops which can help you be that little bit more environmentally friendly:
Nigel’s Eco Store is really a first class website to buy a vast selection of green products online. The website has a “homely” feel to it and the products are nicely classified, they also offer Paypal as a method of payment which is a must for online shopping these days.
It also seems Nigel has picked up some awards along the way which helps buyers associate trust with the website, some of these include; Yahoo! Finds of the year 2007, Real Homes eco award 2007 and SCIP web awards 2006 – although I think it will be a bigger battle for 2008!
Green Rewards opened up shop around 4 months ago and I have to say I’m impressed. The website looks modern with the ability to start “saving energy” immediately on the website by clicking a button that turns the background from white to black. The theory behind this is that a computer will take up less energy this way – although this is a bit of a gimmick it’s a nice touch.
Green Rewards were also one of the first green online reseller that offer rewards for buying eco friendly. If you purchase green items you get points which can be exchanged for free green gifts. You can also shop at normal high street shops like John Lewis and iTunes and receive points – seems like a great deal to me. Altogether these guys have got it right and are providing the necessary steps to help consumers shop green.
Ethical Super Store has by far the best website design, easy to use navigation, fast loading, clear product descriptions and also the ability to search by brand. The only puzzle for me is that they have chosen blue for their branding colours which doesn’t shout “green” to me. Putting that slight quarrel aside it’s a fantastic sight and a must for dedicated eco friendly shoppers.
Smartly Green is another fairly new player in eco friendly shopping world but don’t let that fool you into thinking these guys don’t know what they are doing. They have an extremely extensive catalogue of green products and other useful items. Although the homepage looks more like a resource site when you click on categories a whole other world of information opens up.
The Green Shop has one of the easiest names to remember and is part of a much larger network called the Green Shop Group. The green shopping part of the site is again very extensive like the other top green shops. It is very content rich but don’t let that put you off, they have some competitive prices which help when shopping green!
