SEVEN THINGS YOU CAN DO TO LEAD A GREENER LIFE
The Company: Yahoo! Is a leading global internet brand and one of the most trafficked internet destinations worldwide. Yahoo!’s mission is to connect people to their passions, their communities and world’s knowledge. Yahoo! is headquartered in Sunnyvale, California.
The Partnership: Yahoo! for Good supports Green Thing by promoting us all over the place. Yahoo! video is helping support our Short Green Thing’s student film competition. Yahoo! Green is featuring Green Thing content. And if that wasn’t enough, Yahoo! UK has given us some office space too. You’re a star Kim!
The Company: Nokia is the world leader in mobility, driving the transformation and growth of the converging internet and communications industries. Nokia’s vision is a world where everyone can be connected.
The Partnership: Nokia has provided development resources via the Finnish firm Starcut to create a mobile site for Green Thing. Nokia has also donated prizes for our Short Green Things student film competition and is helping to promote Green Thing to its staff and customers worldwide.
The Company: Kingfisher is the leading home improvement retail group in Europe and Asia with over 800 stores in 8 countries. Kingfisher plc is included in two of the main socially responsible investment indexes – the FTSE4Good and Dow Jones Sustainability indexes.
The Partnership: Kingfisher has supported Green Thing since 2008. Thank you Ian.
The Company: The Carphone Warehouse is Europe's leading independent retailer of mobile phones and services, with over 2,400 stores in 9 countries. Over the past 5 years, The Carphone Warehouse has built up a significant Telecoms business, which already contributes half of the Group's revenue and is set to be a major driver of future profitable growth.
The Partnership: Carphone Warehouse has supported Green Thing since 2008. Thank you Clemmie, Alana and Talia.
The Company: Microsoft exists 'to enable people and businesses throughout the world to realise their full potential'.
The Partnership: Microsoft is supporting Green Thing’s by promoting a prize for software development on Microsoft’s Developers Network (MSDN).
The Company: MySpace is an online community that lets you meet your friends' friends.
The Partnership: MySpace has supported Green Thing through MySpace Impact since 2007 and has recently supported our Short Green Thing’s student film competition. Thank you Fran and Sebastian.
The Company: Blue Barracuda is a strategic, digital agency that gives brands the bite they need to prosper and evolve.
The Partnership: Since launch in 2007, Blue Barracuda have kindly handled all of Green Thing’s outbound email campaigns. Thank you Marion, Marnie, Rachael – and of course Marcus. Brilliant, brilliant, brilliant.
The Company: Founded in 1997, bigmouthmedia is a leading digital marketing agency with over 200 staff across 13 offices, in 10 countries on three continents.
The Partnership: Big Mouth have been the best SEO partner Green Thing could hope for, right from the start. You’re the best Steve, Lyndsay and Warrick.
The Company: SpinVox captures spoken messages and cleverly converts them into text. It then delivers your message to a destination of your choice – inbox, blog, wall or space. Right in the moment. Giving you the power to Speak Freely.
The Partnership: Spinvox has supported Green Thing from when it was just an idea on a curry-stained napkin and that counts for a lot. Thanks a million Christina, you rock.
The Company: Headshift is Europe's leading enterprise social computing consultancy.
The Partnership: Headshift built Green Thing v1 and our facebook app and support us however they can. Thank you hugely – Lee, Livio and the Headshift team.
The Company: The Brown Studio is a multi disciplined design studio based in Kent with over ten years of industry experience working for a variety of small and medium sized businesses.
The Partnership: The Brown Studio has lovingly designed Green Thing v1 and v2. Hayden Brown, you’re so green you should change your name. Thank you.
The Company: OMD UK was the most awarded media communications agency in the country last year. OMD believes in the power of ideas to create powerful communications programmes which help grow clients’ businesses.
The Partnership: OMD UK is Green Thing’s media partner. They support us with media communications strategy to help Green Thing make the biggest difference it can make. Thanks so much Steve, Kate and the team.
The Company: Hall & Partners is a specialist brand and communications research consultancy offering fresh ideas at every stage of the brand planning cycle.
The Partnership: Hall & Partners is Green Thing’s research partner. They support us with research panels to find out how much behaviour change Green Thing influences. Also to check we’re estimating the right amount of CO2 savings for the Green Thing community. Thanks
The Company: Interbrand creates and manages brand value by making the brand central to the business’s strategic aims.
The Partnership: Interbrand supported Green Thing with vital international trademark registration. Christmas came early thanks to you Noel.
The Company: Agency.com, a digital marketing agency in name; a global group of passionate interactivists by nature.
The Partnership: Agency.com helps enormously with design and build resources. Thanks to everyone involved but particularly agent Curtis for all the plasticine and Chan for supporting it from the top.
The Company: Green.tv is a major online resource of environmental video content.
The Partnership: Green TV has supported Green Thing since 2007 by distributing our videos and by creating a Green Thing channel on Green.tv. Thank you Mike, Ade and Verity.
The Company: An independent communications strategy group.
The Partnership: Naked introduced us to Nokia – and have been supporting us ever since. Thank you Dan, Caroline and Tom.
The Company: Dreamtime Research was founded by research veteran Jon Taylor in 1999. Clients range from consumer brands like Gillette, Ford and Panasonic to charities such as Christian Aid and CAB.
The Partnership: Dreamtime Research has been helping Green Thing from the beginning test how the brand connects with its audience and how they interact with Green Thing online. Thank you Jon. A lot.
The Company: Partizan is an international community of directors with offices in London, Los Angeles, New York and Paris. Since launching in 1991 we have developed some of the most talented and exciting directors in the world.
The Partnership: Partizan directors have been helping Green Thing since launch. Thank you Ben, Greg, Barney, Bonnie and the magnificent Michael.
The Company: The Glasshouse was founded in 1998 to provide support, encouragement and inspiration to entrepreneurs across all sectors.
The Partnership: Glasshouse help Green Thing wherever they can – from showing our content at their events to more introductions that anyone can count. Thank you thank you Judith.
The Company: Positive TV reports on people and events from around the globe that are helping to create and shape a Positive future. How good is that?
The Partnership: Positive TV has supported Green Thing since 2008 by reporting on Green Thing and its community. Thank you Caroline, Jeremy, Natalie and Tanya.
The Company: Wyoming Studios is the UK's most spacious, centrally-located and best-equipped focus group venues. We offer unrivaled service support provided by a dedicated team fully trained in business hospitality.
The Partnership: Wyoming kindly lets us use their top class research facilities, and has done since we launched, to help see what people think about Green Thing so we can keep making it better. Yee ha, Jon & Lu.
The Company: Mission is an international communication and creative agency with offices in London and New York.
The Partnership: Mission have helped Green Thing right from the very start in October 2007. Since mid-2008 they have been one of Green Thing's main communications partners helping with all our main events and media messages. Thanks to Nicola, Helen, Peter, Mark and the rest of the fabulous team.
The Company: Eyenetwork was established in 1996 and has over 3500 worldwide video conference facilities in their network which covers over 140 countries. For hire on-demand, by the hour, Eyenetwork makes video conferencing easy.
The Partnership: Eyenetwork started supporting Green Thing in 2010 with sponsorship of our Strange Meeting film to help encourage people to stay grounded. Thank you Lisa.
The Company: Eyenetwork was established in 1996 and has over 3500 worldwide video conference facilities in their network which covers over 140 countries. For hire on-demand, by the hour, Eyenetwork makes video conferencing easy.
The Partnership: Eyenetwork started supporting Green Thing in 2010 with sponsorship of our Strange Meeting film to help encourage people to stay grounded. Thank you Lisa.
The Company: Green Bet raises funds for green causes by giving people the option to tax the revenues of casinos and bookmakers. Taking from the rich to give to the Green!
The Partnership: Green Bet donates all its profits to good causes - including us! Thanks to Andy, Terry and Mark.
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