Movers & Shakers

Introducing Cris

"Cris recently joined the team! She’s been one of OsoEco’s biggest fans.

"It will be a year this July since we invited Cris to participate in our first OsoEco community focus group. Once she got started, Cris hasn’t stopped giving us feedback by adding Eco Matters, Finds, Tags, alerting us to bugs and making valuable recommendations.

"This past year, the team envisioned bringing Cris on board, when the time was right, to be the communication liaison with other beta testers and citizen marketers. The time is right! So, while Cris helps us build community, the rest of the team is developing the web site, building valuable business partnerships and exploring marketing opportunities.

"We started OsoEco because we craved a site to share green solutions, knowledge and know-how. Cris would love to transfer her title of “Chief Power User” to another OsoEco-er! Again, thank you everyone for your patience, during our soft beta phase!”

-- Katie and Caroline, OsoEco co-founders

OsoTalk

You can listen to this newsletter on the OsoTalk Show. In coming weeks we'll be taping interviews, recording ditty's (okay maybe not...), and having a good old time with this great widget by TalkShoe.

To listen, all you have to do is click on the "play" icon... easy easy easy!

OsoNew

Mover & Shaker Max Gladwell has 7 Questions for OsoEco ::

"Caroline Cummings (CEO) and Katie Wilson-Hamaker (President) are co-founders of OsoEco, a wiki-driven online community for healthy, sustainable living...."

OsoEco Group on Facebook

I'd like to take this opportunity to extend an invitation to OsoEco-ers with a Facebook.com membership to join our new OsoEco Group on Facebook. This is another great way to enhance our relationships with one another, and introduce family and friends to OsoEco's growing community and OsoEco.com. Its our hope that people seeking to find a social networking group, which encourages living a green, more socially and environmentally responsible life, will discover OsoEco as they search Facebook or upon receiving a personal invitation.

Don't Miss It!

Featured Eco Matter :: So, who's movin' and shakin' things up out there?

We'd like to hear about Movers & Shakers in this green, blue, whatever we want to call it movement who are bringing about the positive, sustainable changes we want to see in our world. Especially ones that may be off the radar for some of us; unsung heroes we can recognize and support!

Have a person or organization you'd like to tell others about?

Featured Find :: Hosting by Dream Host

With a bit of research we found the most effective approach begins with resource conservation: turning off the lights, reducing travel, printing on both sides of the page. Efforts are being ramped up here daily to do what we do with less. The next step is to use clean, renewable energy....

Know of other green hosting companies? Add them into OsoEco! Don't know how to add finds to OsoEco (finds are products and articles) ? Find out here.

Featured OsoEco-er :: Chris Bailey ::

I'm working on being green, Slow Food, and so on. I'm also really into technology, and make my living as a software developer....

Featured Movers & Shakers

Carrot Mob Makes It Rain! ::

Rather than focus on how good or how bad companies are overall, we are going to focus on whether or not they have earned a carrot. When we offer a carrot to a company, we are signaling to consumers that this company has done something good and they deserve a carrot....

Youth United for Just & Clean Energy ::

Our generation needs a brand new vision for our future. We need to lead the world towards a just, clean energy economy that moves beyond dirty energy...

Featured Movin' & Shakin' Things Up! Video (12 minutes)

Aspen Environmental Forum ::

Plum TV sat down with some of the most prominent movers and shakers in the green movement Big names and big ideas were at the Aspen Institute for the inaugural Aspen Environmental Forum.

Take the Poll!

Al Gore, Annie Leonard, a local grassroots organization that you love? What Mover & Shaker has had the most impact on the environment so far this year?

Green Solutions from Real People :: Tipping Points

Hypermiling ::

Yahya Fahimuddin got tired of spending $60 to fill his Jeep, so he bought an old Honda Insight hybrid and took up hypermiling to squeeze every last mile from a gallon of gas....

Eeeks, Sputters, Gacks, Hairballs
and other things we think are fixed...

First, we want to thank everyone who let us know when the site was doing things that didn't seem quite right.

Several of you reported hitting our Eeek Page when you clicked on a link from an email you received from our site with a comment from a fellow OsoEco-er. This was a tough one for our hyper-techno team of Ethan, Lew, and Bryan, but they think they finally tracked it down.

As many of you noticed (especially those of you using Firefox on Window's machines), pages would sometimes display as long vertical lines -- instead of the nice, neat horizontal rows we wanted. Again, this one was a bear, but we Nancy Drew'ed it and got it working.

You've heard of hanging chads, well, we had our own hanging "add comments" button. People reported trying to leave messages for others and they'd click "add comment" and it would turn into "adding" and it would just sit there.

Thanks again for your patience with enduring these bugs -- we appreciate it!