This morning Big Room Co-Founder Anastasia O’Rourke presented a workshop at the American Institute of Architecture’s Center in New York on “ecolabels-101”, organized by the NY Industrial Retention Network.

The workshop aimed to help participants navigate through the maze of options companies seemingly have in making green claims – from “does not include PVC” type claims, to third-party certified life-cycle based ecolabels, and everything in between.

Anastasia was recently interviewed by ABC Sydney's Deborah Cameron.

The live radio interview provides an in-depth explanation of our vision for dot eco, and Deborah certainly doesn't hold back, asking us some hard questions!

An excerpt from the discussion is here [click to download and then unzip to play mp3] 

On June 25th, we held our first official dot eco consultation in Sydney Australia. The meeting built on the lessons and advice learned at our Vancouver pilot meeting and was kindly hosted by the Institute for Sustainable Futures. 

Environmental leaders from various fields joined the afternoon brainstorming on the policies that will create dot eco.