Certifications

Equal Exchange / Fair Trade
Cage free / Free range

These are sources from Good Guide - an interesting approach would be to see if the sources they are using HAVE the company roll up data in their export file and Good Guide is just not using it because it's not the way they have their site designed. Their focus is products: ours is companies. If their sources (below are a few) would be willing to provide us with the same type of data flow, we could map the data to the companies instead, gaining some good content.

http://www.rspo.org/
http://www.iso.org/iso/home.htm
http://www.safecosmetics.org/
http://www.peta.org

ALSO

http://www.greenstudentu.com/

Hooze resources:

http://www.alternativeconsumer.com/

Good material on market for one issue: fair trade - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fairtrade_labelling

Economist article on impact / issues - http://www.economist.com/business/displaystory.cfm?story_id=8380592

ACI – American Consumer Institute - http://www.theamericanconsumer.org/

GrenerChoices – by Consumer Reports - http://www.greenerchoices.org/

Consumer Federation of America

Funding Sources for Center for Science in the Public Interest -Private foundation grants make up approximately 5% to 10% of CSPI's annual revenue of $17 million. No corporate $.

http://www.cspinet.org/about/funding.html

Fund for Public Interest Research - http://www.ffpir.org/

Grassroots Campaigns Inc - Political effort = 1x year: consumer decisions = daily

http://www.grassrootscampaigns.com/index.php

PIRG – prevention vs. cure pitch? - http://www.uspirg.org/about-us/mission

Consumer Federation of America - http://www.consumerfed.org/

USGBC - www.usgbc.org - pull LEED data per company

Sec filings- sec.gov/Edgar.sHTML
Edgar-online.com
Google.org/finance - Corporate officer information

http://greenwashingindex.com/

Consumer Reports greener choices site: http://www.greenerchoices.org/
Green Your... whatever: http://www.greenyour.com/

http://www.terrachoice.com/

YouTube videos tagged with Company names

For that matter, Flickr, del.icio.us, Technorati, etc.

Better World Shopper

"Shopping For a Better World, A Quick & Easy Guide to Socially Responsible Supermarket Shopping," published by the Council on Economic Priorities, "...rates the positions of 1,300 brand-name products on eleven key social issues, from minority advancement to military contracts, charitable contributions to community outreach."


I called the number, which was out of service, tracked down the following website with a reference, called the 800 number, got a busy signal, and poked around the web to wind up on the second link:

http://www.angelfire.com/mt/internships/56.htm

http://www.betterworldshopper.org/?gclid=CN6U0pvGwpUCFQsQagod2HoXRQ

This second link also has some lists (yay!):

Top 10: http://www.betterworldshopper.org/topten.html

as well as information about their source data:

http://www.betterworldshopper.org/research.html