the green bin

When you visit Green Crawler, what do you see? A few “Fresh Finds” handpicked by our team and a nice search bar for you to explore our inventory of eco-friendly products. We’re ready to add to your “Green Crawler” experience in what we think is going to be revolutionary and completely user-generated way.

Our team loves sharing new, unique, “fresh” products from the Green Crawler inventory with its users, but we want to take this, well, more than one step further.  Green Crawler will be featuring a new platform that will allow people to help people go green through a way of logging in, sharing, and voting on user-generated information…ultimately developing a community of eco-conscious individuals. You, the users, will help each other find useful green products, green deals, offers, etc. After all, we’re all trying to better our planet together, right?

We will be sending out invites to test this platform, very soon, so if you are interested in being a selected “tester”, please send us an email at info@greencrawler.com, send us a tweet @GreenCrawler, or write on our Facebook Fan Page.

We’re extremely excited about this user-generated platform and its long term potential. This is a brief introduction, and as we roll out its launch, you will all see how it works, more in-depth. It will be as good as you, our “green crawlers”, make it, and our job will be to listen to your feedback, and add as many new features to it as we can, in order to make your Green Crawler experience as beneficial and enjoyable as possible.

We will be back with updates on these developments soon. Thanks for all of your support!

As our database of products continues to expand on a weekly basis, one of the key pieces we wanted to include with our growing site was a “Fresh Finds” feature.  You can find these fresh, handpicked products on our homepage, with an entire archive as well. As we continue to add new merchants and thousands of new products, we continuously find cool, unique, useful products that we don’t want hidden in the mix, and only accessible through a specific search.  This is how we developed “Fresh Finds”.

Green Crawler's "Fresh Finds"

They are either great deals ($10.99 recyclable aluminum usb flash driver from Newegg, for example), great alternatives (slippers made from recycled plastic bottles from The North Face that can easily replace a pair of Uggs, $30 vs $90), and products that you never even knew existed (like shipping an old tee to Hellow Rewind so that they can turn it into a laptop sleeve for you).

This was the idea behind “Fresh Finds”.  Sharing our green discoveries with you.  Be sure to check back often for the latest finds. You can also join our Facebook page and follow us on Twitter to get notified whenever we add a new ”Fresh Find”.

This is just one of the new features that Green Crawler will be developing over the next 2 months and presenting to you in mid-April, for our anniversary and Earth Day.  Stay tuned for our next round of features…enhanced searches, browsing options, and many new products to choose from (just to name a few).

So you’ve either joined Green Crawler’s Facebook page or you’re looking at it and thinking “okay, what is this website all about?”

In the booming industry of “green” shopping, many of us are still unaware of our options online.  “Where can I buy green? Do my favorite stores have green products? If so, how can I locate these products on their websites?”  This is where Green Crawler comes into play.  Our mission, in a sense, is to provide savvy shoppers with a one-stop resource to find products that contribute to a healthier, more eco-friendly lifestyle.

Now, you must be thinking, “What constitutes a “green” product?”  The fact is; you don’t have to dress like your 8th grade art teacher to be more eco-friendly.  When you come to Green Crawler, you aren’t just browsing through pages and pages of Birkenstocks, hemp pants, and tie-dye ponchos.  You are finding “green” alternatives.  CFL bulbs, Energy Star TV’s, fashionable jeans and shoes (organic 7 jeans for example), SIGG reusable bottles, messenger bags made from recycled sails and billboards, etc.  These products are both from reputable merchants (Buy.com, Zappos, Shop.com, Amazon’s Endless.com) and merchants you probably haven’t heard of (Mothernature.com, Shoporganic.com, Nimli.com).

In addition, we constantly strive to keep our users informed about green news.  We will be using this Facebook fan page to share what we find via Twitter, our favorite Blogs, our own Blog, YouTube, and tons of other resources.  And of course, this can be a place for you all to share your findings, thoughts, and favorite products…and of course, give feedback.

That’s Green Crawler.  If you like what we’re doing, join the page and spread the word.  Our job… keep looking into new ways to make the site more user-friendly, adding more sellers and products, and allowing you all to collaborate with us.  We have some new features in the works right now and will be sharing them soon! Talk to you all soon. Thanks for joining our fan page!

You want to go green, but you’re not sure where to start.  Or maybe you do have an idea of what you’re looking for, but you’re curious about the other green alternatives out there.  One of the new features of the Green Crawler homepage will assist you in your “green” shopping journey.  It’s called Fresh Finds.  Through this feature, we will give you ideas of some of the cool, unique, low-priced and/or popular items that we discover when adding merchants and their products…or products that we just happen to stumble upon.  This feature will help give our users more “green” gift ideas, updates on deals that our merchants are having at the moment, a different approach on everyday products that can help them go green, etc.

Need ideas? Check out "Fresh Finds"

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