Brighter Planet Bribing Us For Our Opinions…How Lame…Me First, Me First!

A Vermont-based company called Brighter Planet seems to think the green consumer will just give away our opinions for the chance to win $200.  Since I just completed the survey, I’m going to go ahead and guess they’re right! 

The company, which has a credit card that allows purchasers to donate to community renewable energy projects every time they use it, conducts survey research to get at the elusive nature of the wily green consumer.  In a previous survey, they inquired as to why people buy carbon offsets (or don’t), valuable information to help establish the renewable energy and offsetting industries.

In this survey, they’re interested in your opinion on sustainability in your workplace.  And, of course, once you’re done, you are registered for that $200 prize!  Woohoo!  $200 worth of organic beer here I come!

Scott Cooney is the author of Build a Green Small Business:  Profitable Ways to Become an Ecopreneur (McGraw-Hill), which just today was launched in China.  It’s my own book, and I can’t read one freaking word of it.  Nice.

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About Scott Cooney

Scott Cooney is an Adjunct Professor of Sustainability at the University of Hawai'i, green business startup coach, author of Build a Green Small Business: Profitable Ways to Become an Ecopreneur (McGraw-Hill), and developer of the sustainability board game GBO Hawai'i. As a serial eco-entrepreneur who has started, grown and sold multiple green businesses, Scott believes that capitalism, true capitalism, can be a powerful force for change, but that our current version of capitalism is severely hampered by perverse subsidies and negative externalities that make unsustainable products less expensive than healthier alternatives. Scott is a vegetarian, an avid cyclist, and an organic gardener.

  • http://blog.brighterplanet.com Adam Rubin

    Ha! Bribing, huh? We like to think of it as a *special thanks* for helping us improve our business :) Regardless, thanks for spreading the word.

    -Adam

  • http://blog.brighterplanet.com Adam Rubin

    Ha! Bribing, huh? We like to think of it as a *special thanks* for helping us improve our business :) Regardless, thanks for spreading the word.

    -Adam