Green Team Talks
Thoughts on a greener marketplace, and what it means to be green.
Ashwin Seshagiri
Ashwin Seshagiri is a recent member of the eBay Green Team, but has been thinking about what it means to be green for a long time. As a Bay Area native, he's been working in green media for the past few years in and around San Francisco. But he's had a wandering spirit ever since his parents plopped him on a plane at six months old, and is always on the lookout for any opportunity to travel the world. He's particularly fond of the street food you can find across the globe that would probably be considered gourmet food in fancy restaurants back home.
What's your green guilty pleasure?
I love me a good, long hot shower. (I try my best not take long ones though... most of the time)
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Every year, eBay hosts an event at its headquarters that celebrates the innovative people that work here. In its sixth year, the innovation demo expo encourages employees to come up with new ideas for tools and applications that will make the eBay experience as best as it can be. Last year, one of the more memorable technologies that came out of this event was eBay's mobile app, which in large part helped the company earn the recognition as the 2009 mobile retailer of the year.
There were over 80 teams presenting this year, most of which came from employees who came up with ideas in their spare time and worked in small teams with colleagues to create demos. Among projects on how to better list items to using Twitter trends to display products, there were a few green standouts as well.
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(UPDATED) eBay Unveils New Technology to Generate Reliable, Green Power 24/7
- Feb 24, 2010
- Green@eBay
- Ashwin Seshagiri
This morning, we unveiled a new, state-of-the-art technology at our PayPal campus in San Jose that will provide us with environmentally-friendly and inexpensive power from an innovative new fuel cell technology.
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This morning, despite the massive storm that has hit the east coast, red carpets were unveiled, lights were lit and thousands of iconic designers descended upon New York City for Mercedes Benz Fashion Week. It begs the question about greening the fashion industry: what does sustainable fashion mean?
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As GPS devices, smart phones, and social media play bigger and bigger roles in all our lives, we have the ability to connect with the people and places around us in new and unique ways, so that together our actions can combine to produce some pretty powerful results.
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The Cyber Monday / Black Friday Smackdown: Measuring the Carbon Impact of Holiday Shopping
- Dec 20, 2009
- Buy Green
- Ashwin Seshagiri
At eBay, we've known for a while that buying used online is much better for the environment than driving to the mall or a big box store and getting something new off the shelf. Earlier in December, a couple of research firms released a study comparing the environmental impacts of Black Friday, which most people consider to be the biggest shopping day of the year, with Cyber Monday, a day that has become popular over the past few years to do holiday shopping online. Among other things, the study found that buying something on Black Friday, on average, was 50 times worse for the environment than buying something online on Cyber Monday.
