Green shopping is the act of looking beyond price and quality and taking into consideration the social and environmental implications of your everyday purchases.

Green shopping DOES NOT mean that relentlessly consuming environmentally responsible goods and services will make a positive impact on the environment. In fact, consuming more will actually have a negative impact because it still takes raw materials, energy, and transportation to deliver them.

However, when you do shop, making eco-friendly choices will not only have a minimal impact on the environment, but will also resonate with others and hopefully urge them to do the same. In other words, green shopping is a way to take action and spread consciousness using your wallet.

We live in a world where consumption is a given. Therefore, we strongly believe that offering consumers greener options helps reduce the collective impact that our consumer goods production and consumption activities have on the planet. We also recognize that greener shopping is a powerful vehicle to help broaden the collective awareness of consumers at large. It only take a pebble to start an avalanche.

No, we import products that pass through our attribute filter and therefore meet one or more of Greenzer’s eco-friendly standards. The purpose of creating the Greenzer shopping engine is to bring recognition to the brands and products at the forefront of green living while providing you with simple resources with which to base your conscious purchases. Many products and brands, even if they have met our minimum green standards, can still be improved.

Product descriptions are based on descriptions received from merchant feeds. None of the product descriptions listed on this website were written and/or modified by Greenzer.

We strive to provide you with the most credible, transparent, and objective evaluations with which to make your conscious shopping choices. We have created a number of security mechanisms and monitoring systems but our algorithm is a continuous work in progress, which may result in inconsistencies along the way. If at any point you feel that our product selection or Greenzer Scores are misleading, we urge you to contact us to voice your concern.

The Greenzer Score is a number ranging from 1 – 10 that ranks products on their greenness - 1 being least green and 10 being most green. The score aggregates some of the leading data sources that track the environmental performance on products and brands. Even if a product score is low, the product is still green, as it has met one or more of Greenzer’s minimum environmental standards.

In order to provide the most credible scoring system possible, Greenzer requires at least 2 data sources to score a listed product. The Greenzer Score currently aggregates data from 3 groups – ClimateCounts.org, Energy Star, and EPEAT. Energy Star and EPEAT cover computers, electronics and appliances exclusively, which means that these are the only categories that have 2 or more data sources available for scoring. As we continue to develop the scoring system, Greenzer will assess products across a wider range of categories.

NO. Read more about the Greenzer Score to understand how it gets calculated.

Our editorial content is provided by a team of eco-philes bent on finding cool green products, services and green nuggets of wisdom. Product descriptions are provided by retailers and/or manufacturers.

Climate Counts is a non-profit campaign that scores companies annually on the basis of their voluntary action to reverse climate change. The Climate Counts Company Scorecard -- launched in June 2007 -- helps people vote with their dollars by making climate-conscious purchasing and investing choices that put pressure on the world's most well-known companies to take the issue of climate change seriously. Launched by organics pioneer Stonyfield Farm, Climate Counts believes everyday consumers can be the most important activists in the fight against global warming. Updated scores were released in May 2008.

EPEAT is a system to help purchasers in the public and private sectors evaluate, compare and select desktop computers, notebooks and monitors based on their environmental attributes. EPEAT also provides a clear and consistent set of performance criteria for the design of products, and provides an opportunity for manufacturers to secure market recognition for efforts to reduce the environmental impact of its products.

ENERGY STAR is a joint program of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency and the U.S. Department of Energy helping us all save money and protect the environment through energy efficient products and practices.Energy Star qualifies products that are 10–25% more efficient than required by the federal standard while providing top performance and innovative features.

Greenpeace is an independent global campaigning organization that acts to change attitudes and behaviour, to protect and conserve the environment and to promote peace. Greenpeace's 'Guide to Greener Electronics' ranks the 18 top manufacturers of personal computers, mobile phones, TV's and games consoles according to their policies on toxic chemicals and recycling.