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Four Daily Deal Sites That Are Better (for the World) than Groupon Daily Deal Sites and Emails that Are Green, Nonprofit, and Eco-Friendly


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It seems like a new daily deal site comes online just about every week, promising you 50 percent off of anything you can swipe a credit card at. All kinds of copycats are chasing

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Blissmo's founder, Sundeep Ahuja, says he doesn't want to be a green version of Groupon. He wants to stop climate change. "We're on a mission to shift consumption patterns," he says.

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This tiny startup is just for the folks of Orange County, California right now, but if the model works, watch for copycats around the country. DealGooder boasts that it "brings together socially con

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Operating in five cities in Canada, ethicalDeal fully embraces the "green lifestyle" it promotes through discount offers, in sharp contrast to Blissmo. In fact, ethicalDeal

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As we reported earlier, Green Box Top was founded by two yoga instructors who 

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