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Buy It Like You Mean It is seeking talented students and recent graduates in the following internship areas: Researcher, Web Developer, Community Organizer, Business Developer, Designer/Tester, Artist. Be part of something big! Get the individual attention and support you need to make a difference. (more…)

A Greener People forum survey seeks to determine if the struggling economy is changing our green shopping habits. So far, 3/4 of the site’s readers indicate that they will spend the same or more on environmentally (more…)

is an email list that tells the stories of innovative nonprofits and social entrepreneurs around the world that could use help with the projects they’re working on. (more…)

How can consumer concern about business practices be leveraged for systemic change? Progress may require us to speak the language of industry; to provide detailed reports describing what customers will pay for improvement.

Rahala Alam begins her internship with bilumi.org today. She is investigating how companies value the concerns of their customers. (more…)

Here’s an (altered) image of an email communication from an hour ago. It’s a funny things to be proud of, but getting this email has me jumping up and down with optimism. (more…)

Is your cell phone reporting how long you’re at the market? Are store video cameras tracking more than theft? The Economist reports on how technology is being used for market layout, olfactory purchasing cues, etc.

A report came out recently from Forrester Research which summarizes the media sources that adults in the US trust most. Do you think that people who change their brand loyalties based on socially responsible information trust different sources than the average American? (more…)

Madeline Ashby has published the first installment of Boyfriend, a story about a girl from the future preparing for prom. How does she prepare? By pillow talking with an artificial intelligence program that helps her find out the supply chain history of the dresses she’s choosing. (more…)

I just marked a set of emails as spam. This is the first group of emails that I’ve received that targeted me as interested in “green” purchasing. I was fooled at first. I started thinking to myself “Hmm. My Green Choices sounds pretty cool. Is this an organization that I’ve contacted to explore potential partnerships?” My memory didn’t tip me off to (more…)

The Computing Culture group at MIT’s Media Lab is publishing an information sharing service that extends the Buy It Like You Mean It open source code. The Landman Report Card will allow land owners to negotiate with oil and gas companies (more…)

This is a scrambled (family friendly) version of what appeared on the front page of the Browse results section of Buy It Like You Mean It yesterday. The hacker responsible only changed one company’s description: alerting us to a security hole without causing real damage.

The problem is now fixed. We treat our website’s security seriously. (more…)

Lucy Mendel has committed the landmark 1,000th change to Buy It Like You Mean It’s repository of open source technology! Click the sound file to hear her speech on the subject (gotcha, Lucy.) (more…)

Aaron K. Chatterji and Michael W. Toffel of Harvard Business School are taking a closer look at how environmental practices change when companies are publicly rated for their performance.

Here’s what I took from their paper: (more…)

Wondering what happened with the results of the poll where you helped us think about what kinds of revenue we should pursue? The short answer is: Courtney is on it.

Courtney Tyler is interning with bilumi this semester and will be preparing the first stage of a comprehensive financial plan. She is starting with the various revenue models that you commented on in this summer’s survey. We’re really lucky to have her on the team!

Says Courtney: “I am (more…)

GoodGuide.com has released a scientist’s take on socially responsible ratings guides. Learn about this and other socially responsible guides on our updated Research Guide. That is where you can find ways to contribute that take as little as two minutes of your time! (more…)

Ravens (our metaphor for tools that help us share socially responsible product information) that are prevented from retrieving a bit of food can direct others how to get it. New research shows that they can also remember which humans are threats using facial cues. They even teach their neighbors which faces are potentially threatening. (more…)

Mollie, Catie, Stefan, and I have all collaborated to create these options based on the winning logo from our previous poll.

Click on the image to enlarge it… then vote for your favorite by clicking: (more…)

Have you noticed how much information is now available on our main site about chocolate? Sure, there are gaps, but we now have data on everything from Kosher scores to labor practices. Many people shared their research with our community to get us this far. Here are three of them. (more…)

We’ve voted to make Buy It Like You Mean It (bilumi) our project’s name instead of our slogan. So we could probably use another slogan. (more…)

“‘This year’s class reveals an empowered group of consumers. From their purchasing decisions and media consumption to their pull at the polls, this college consumer is clearly in control and showing their strength in numbers.’

College students demonstrate strong commitment towards the brands they feel are contributing positively (more…)