A guide to goodness Values for money 良品导购 价廉物良 Want to know if a product is virtuous? There s an app for that. 想知道一个产品是否货真价实?有个软件能帮你。 AS HE applied sunscreen to his young daughter s face, Dara O Rourke, a professor ofenvironmental and labour policy at the University of California, Berkeley, found himselfwondering if the lotion was safe. 当加利福尼亚大学伯克利分校的环境与劳工政策教授多拉?欧罗克往他年幼的女儿脸上抹防晒霜时,他发现自己在怀疑这种防晒霜是否安全。 He realised there was no readily available answer. 他意识到这个问题没有现成的答案。 The resulttwo years, a team of chemists, lots of testing and a chunk of venture capitallateris GoodGuide.com. 历时两年,一批化学家进行了大量的测试及后期风险投资,成果是建立了指南网。 Launched in 2008, this is a website and smartphone app that rates 140,000 consumerproducts according to their safety, environmental sustainabilityand the ethics of the firms that make them. 这个成立于2008年的网站有配套的智能手机软件,它根据安全性、环境可持续性及生产厂商的道德操守对十四万种消费品进行了评估。 |