{"id":70,"date":"2009-06-18T18:58:56","date_gmt":"2009-06-18T18:58:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dombrower.com\/home\/?p=70"},"modified":"2009-06-18T19:01:29","modified_gmt":"2009-06-18T19:01:29","slug":"about-greencom","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dombrower.com\/home\/about-greencom\/","title":{"rendered":"About Green.com"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It was with a surprising amount of sadness that I heard\u00a0 the news that IAC will likely\u00a0 pull the plug on Green.com &#8230; for those of you who didn&#8217;t get the chance to see it or hear about it, it was a site a group of us started for IAC aimed at pre-teens&#8230; providing them an unbelievably cool virtual world, a safe social network, a kid-oriented wikipedia-like research tool called the Gno and all wrapped around the theme of making kids more environmentally literate and motivated towards creating a better future for our planet.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-72\" style=\"border: 0pt none;\" title=\"green___avas_01\" src=\"http:\/\/dombrower.com\/home\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/06\/green___avas_01-300x201.jpg\" alt=\"green___avas_01\" width=\"300\" height=\"201\" srcset=\"https:\/\/dombrower.com\/home\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/06\/green___avas_01-300x201.jpg 300w, https:\/\/dombrower.com\/home\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/06\/green___avas_01-1024x686.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/dombrower.com\/home\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/06\/green___avas_01.jpg 1053w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/>I&#8217;ve been away from the company about 6 months, there was still a crew there trying everything they could to make it happen.<\/p>\n<p>There were some really, really talented people who worked on Green.com and I&#8217;m grateful to them for the chance to create what we did. \u00a0 (in no particular order)&#8230; Ed, Ray, Kirk, JP, Lee, Kristin, Jim, Kevin,\u00a0 Rita, Arthur, Greg, Graeme, Nick, Jen, Rachel, Allison, Christina, Connie, Margaret, Chris&#8230; and many others.\u00a0 I also am grateful to Kiele for her dedication and terrific contributions both when I was running the shop and since she took over the reins.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-71\" title=\"dell-green-portal-when-you-click-home-on-the-browser\" src=\"http:\/\/dombrower.com\/home\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/06\/dell-green-portal-when-you-click-home-on-the-browser-300x175.jpg\" alt=\"dell-green-portal-when-you-click-home-on-the-browser\" width=\"300\" height=\"175\" srcset=\"https:\/\/dombrower.com\/home\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/06\/dell-green-portal-when-you-click-home-on-the-browser-300x175.jpg 300w, https:\/\/dombrower.com\/home\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/06\/dell-green-portal-when-you-click-home-on-the-browser.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m not sure what will happen with the team or the property, but it is my hope to be able to work with everyone again in the future&#8230; it isn&#8217;t sad because the business didn&#8217;t make it, it is sad because there was such a wonderful family of people working on creating an interactive work of art.\u00a0 And, the Art we created will live on.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-75\" style=\"border: 0pt none;\" title=\"greensig1\" src=\"http:\/\/dombrower.com\/home\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/06\/greensig1.png\" alt=\"greensig1\" width=\"500\" height=\"96\" srcset=\"https:\/\/dombrower.com\/home\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/06\/greensig1.png 500w, https:\/\/dombrower.com\/home\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/06\/greensig1-300x57.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It was with a surprising amount of sadness that I heard\u00a0 the news that IAC will likely\u00a0 pull the plug on Green.com &#8230; for those of you who didn&#8217;t get the chance to see it or hear about it, it was a site a group of us started for IAC aimed at pre-teens&#8230; 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