NRDC: A Shopper's Guide to Home Tissue Products
Comparison of toilet paper and such by green standards.
* This would be good to put in the newsletter; they recommend it for religious community newsletters.

Create a list of the possible on-line shopping+donation services, and compare them. For each one:

* General description: Are they green or general consumer? What is their product line like? (We may have more than one partner, one with all kinds of products, one with green products only, and perhaps a couple of specialty stores, like Barnes and Nobles so we can sell books.)
* Can donations be made to a non-501-c3 (we're not registered as a 501c3)
* Google them on a blog search engine, and see if anyone has written about them. Take quick notes, including the URL of the blog so I can see it.

Autumn 2006 Plan:

Our intention is to have Taygen Redekop coordinate research and hopefully contacts for the LGE, working ~15 hours per week for ???.

Steps:
S) Find all old information
* 41 pounds or other stop-junk companies that donate to nonprofits?
* Determine the subjects to research possible partners.
- solar and lighting (for the booth and for sale)
- green housecleaning
- green real estate
- green medical
* Research existing and possible discussion groups for each of these subjects.
- craigslists and similar, blogs, professional organization's forums.

We want to research water filters for the Little Green Expo. Which is the greenest & most socially responsible company, providing the best water filter for the price? If one of the top-runners is interested, we'll sell their filter. (I'm especially revved-up to do this because my house just bought a Pur filter that, on reading the box, only claims to reduce the cholorine taste and pretty much nothing else.

Volunteer needed: check consumer reports, ask at a couple coops (food coops, cooperative houses) to see if anyone has already researched this, check on enviro blogs --> creating a map of how to find out this kind of info would be useful for the next project. Check multi-pure (which is different from Pur)

We're collecting ideas on how to run a green housecleaning business, hoping to help new people start green businesses and existing housecleaning operations switch. (A volunteer or intern is needed to coordiante this process.)

We have found two sets of companies that do green housekeeping. One in San Fran, so San Fran is covered. WAGES in the East Bay is not interested right now. We need a plan to find green housekeeping businesses, or help inspire existing businesses to switch, and partner with us.

We need to research various solar panels that could fit on the top of the canopy and power a laptop and lighting. Also, find the lighting, and perhaps a flashlight that is powered by shaking. We'll both use and refer/sell various solar & alternative powered options. Need to find the suppliers (not just retailers) of these solar panels.