Positive Portals
A Web Portal with filtering / voting mechanisms to ensure participants offer only positive products & services.

Proposal / white paper by Jeroen Lapre' Copyright 2007

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A website, or websites, as portals into a positive networking community.
Web technology will allow filtering / voting to help ensure participants are of good intent, and advertisers offer products or services with true positive value.

Example
Home Planet
A positive portal that promotes science education, and will develop positive networking software tools, toward being responsible stewards of our home planet.

Benefits

Socially responsible investors are struggling to ensure their investments are going toward ventures with true positive value.
If socially responsible entrepreneurs could advertise their ventures in a positive portal, then responsible investors will know where to go.

Strategic allies in socially responsible, sustainable businesses, and or the required field of expertise, would be invited to assist in the evaluations.
Software technology will assist in the screening, voting, and assessment of products & services.

Conscientious consumers would be attracted to these positive portals, as the products and services are ensured to have some positive value.

If a community of socially responsible investors, entrepreneurs, businesses, advertisers, and other participants form a trust system via positive portal(s), this could lead to a true sustainable economy.

Examples of products with positive value

Product / Service	Positive Value
Organic produce	Healthy food that is grown in a sustainable manner, without synthetic fertilizers, pesticides, hormones, or genetic modification.
Telescope	A instrument that encourages learning about the universe.
Push Bike	Promotes exercies, and as a zero emission form of transport.

External References

Timberland Publicizes it's foot print in Kilowatt hours