RE: The Gift Economy is Online at Homesteaders Co-op
Hey there #homesteadercoop and team!
Absolutely love the look, feel and vibes of your marketplace!
It looks like our projects can benefit from each other. Hope you have a few minutes to check out on steemit, Holistic Sustainability Reporting Tools for Products and Meals.
We focus on being a sustainability rating system and research tool - not a multi-vendor sales hosting site. Like you, we don't make ANY money off ANY vendors.
Businesses do not sell through our site and are not charged anything at all. We operate solely on donations and founder's funding.
Our posts explain our minimum sustainability requirements to get listed. You can see an example listing below - reminder that the 'buy now' button would link directly to homesteaderscoop.com and we make no commissions.
Thank you for your time!
Hello, nice to hear from you :) Your website and rating system is very cool. We certainly do have some similar inspiration and motivation for the work we are doing. I appreciate there is a need and importance for what you are doing. I hope that you have success in your new project! Thanks for the suggestion of including our vendors in your website. While most of our vendors are operating online with their products and services, perhaps there are some that also have local services as well. We are not all food related, but certainly there are some.
Thanks yet again #sagescrub,
Eco-locals.com is perfect for food and products that are sold both online or in store as long as they meet our minimum requirements.
Think of us as the database for researching and comparing all the 'boring' sustainability info. We don't handle money for vendors or process transactions.
We hope to support and strengthen vendors on sites like yours - This way you can keep the look and feel of your site, while vendors have a chance to demonstrate how they comply with holistic and standardized sustainability reporting.
If they're available at 10 different farmer's markets and online, our interactive map and tools make them easy to find for tourists or locals alike!
Thanks again for your feedback and time!
Thank you for explaining that. I am sorry I didn't understand it is not only local. I guess it was an assumption I made based on the name eco-locals. That is very kind of you to offer your website service to our vendors. Are you on discord yet? I'd like to invite you to our community chat room. https://discord.gg/t2faQnD
'locals' means ingredients are >50% extracted and manufactured within 1000km from where the product is manufactured.
This puts pressure on makers to get things from nearby - I have chatted with many 'local green' businesses who get their glass jars or other pieces from China just because no one asked or thought it was important...
So! Someone in Canada could use eco-locals.com to find coffee in Columbia - if it met the requirements in Columbia.
The hope is that people would use the service to find a local tea as a coffee replacement instead of doing this - but even if they must have coffee (like me) it is a step in the right direction.
It's all a lot clearer when you have a google MyMap in front of you to see where everything comes from like we provide on our listings pages.
:D Thanks again we are on discord and will join soon.
Thanks for the explanation. This all makes sense now! I like this project even more now :)