Facebook Forcing a Green Wine!

For some reason that I have yet to figure out, wine companies seem to be making allot of smart moves towards organic and sustainable business. Besides the obvious benefits of this, it boggles my mind why other industries are not hopping on board at the rate wine companies are. Anyways, it seems those wine companies are at it again by incorporating a Facebook application to help force them to go green.

The Facebook application is cutely named “Green My Vino” and is run by a company called Village Green. I know, sounds sketchy already, but after doing a little digging into other sites and Village Green’s site, it seems pretty legit! Heres how the application on Facebook works: Green My Vino makes it possible for Facebook users to force environmental change in business. The application enables Facebook users to give each other free online gifts worth One Minute, Five Minutes, and Ten Minutes of renewable energy. Each free gift adds Minutes towards a goal. Once the goal is met, a participating winery will commit to power its entire operations with renewable energy through Village Green. An additional winery will convert its power to renewable energy each time Facebook participants meet the next goal. The wineries that have singed on to this application and idea are… (with more to come)

Iron Horse Vineyards 10,000 minutes
Girard Winery 17,000 minutes
Windsor Vineyards 30,000 minutes
Windsor Sonoma 45,000 minutes

You can learn all about the Facebook application here to answer any of your questions. You can also click here to more about Village Green as a company and how they make this whole process work with a video and slide show. I have already added this application to my Facebook page and our Ecologicliving Facebook page. So feel free to look me up or join our page and help spread the Green Vino and make these companies convert to renewable energy.

Keep it Green,

Paul

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