Viridus Adds Green Business News Aggregator

Over the past couple of years, each of us has collected our favorite sources of green business news. In my case, it's mostly RSS feeds, but I also get about a dozen daily emails from newsletters, Google Alerts and friends. Keeping all the news organized and being able to categorize and go back and search has been a pain.

So to solve our own problem (and thinking others might have the same one) we created a green business news aggregator, Viridus News. Viridus News is a service that aggregates news stories at the intersection of business and sustainability (we strip out most non-business green news just the same as business news that isn't related to sustainability). The goal is to simplify busy daily lives by collecting all of the day’s most relevant, and most interesting green business news and articles on a single page.

Any user can submit a story and users collectively rate the value and popularity (and of course users can comment as well). One of the cool features of Viridus News is that we aggregate stories from a variety of sources (over 100 so far) filtered for stories that focus on green business, so you're certain not to miss important stories. No more do you have to hunt around looking for stories or tracking RSS feeds full of irrelevant news.



Another valuable features is the introduction of "categories." In this case, we aimed to create categories that roughly track job descriptions or responsibilities. The feature I personally value the most is the ability to search the news stories.

There is also a bookmarklet that easily drops in your browser links bar which allows users to easily submit stories to Viridus News.

You can learn more about Viridus News here or just go check it out and let us know what you think.