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beezling

(11 posts)
2. Eye$pend
Thu Jul 26, 2012, 06:58 PM
Jul 2012

Darcy Burner gave a barnstormer of a keynote at Netroots this year, and she spent a couple of minutes on EXACTLY this topic.

Which was a double-edged sword for my company, Spend Consciously.

We've been working for over a year to develop an app that will let users scan a product's barcode with their phone and instantly learn the degree to which purchasing that product is in line with their beliefs/values. In other words, a Tea Partier could scan a Georgia Pacific product, and its relationship to the Koch brothers would positively affect that user's personalized rating of that company. Whereas for a Wall Street Occupier it would have a negative effect.

You can see the Burner excerpt here: bit.ly/fundeyespend

I don't mean to whorishly solicit my company's crowdfunding campaign. But the only other place I've seen that particular excerpt is on a Daily Caller page, and I'm not linking to THAT.

Boycotting is the answer Boycottdbad Jan 2012 #1
Eye$pend beezling Jul 2012 #2
Thank you for this more complete list than I'd accessed before. nightscanner59 Aug 2012 #3
drop in the bucket Vic Vinegar Jan 2013 #4
I have no power to tax anyone costello Jan 2013 #5
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