Big Room Inc., a Canadian company working to create .eco, an eco domain name ending for the Internet, has won B Corp certification. B Corporations are a new kind of company that uses the power of business to solve social and environmental problems.

"We are proud to be at the vanguard of companies dedicated to solving social and environmental problems. As a B Corporation, Big Room is now legally required to meet higher standards of social and environmental performance, transparency and accountability," said Big Room Co-founder, Jacob Malthouse. "Standards like B Corp express our values in a concrete way. We hope that dot eco will soon be able to support B Labs efforts and the work of all B Corporations."

Unlike traditional corporations, Certified B Corporations are legally required to consider the impact of their decisions on their employees, suppliers, community, consumers, and environment. There are now over 250 Certified B Corporations from over 30 industries, representing $1 billion in collective revenues.

About Big Room
Big Room Inc. is a Canadian company based in Vancouver, British Columbia with an office in Connecticut. It was founded in 2007 to help make it easier for people to make green choices. Big Room is now beta testing www.ecolabelindex.com, the world's leading online database on green labels and developing the rules for a dot eco Internet domain ending at www.doteco.info.

Contacts: hello@bigroom.ca, www.twitter.com/doteco, www.bigroom.ca

About B Lab
B Lab is a nonprofit organization dedicated to using the power of business to solve social and environmental problems. B Lab's primary initiatives are: 1) building a community of Certified B Corporations to make it easier for all of us to tell the difference between "good companies" and just good marketing; 2) increasing adoption of the GIIRS impact rating system to drive institutional investment to high impact global private equity investments; and 3) advancing supportive public policies, including creation of a new corporate form -- like the recently introduced Benefit Corp legislation in Vermont -- and incentives for sustainable business -- like the recently passed B Corp tax break in Philadelphia.

Big Room Inc.

Big Room Inc.

Big Room Inc. is a Canadian company based in Vancouver, British Columbia with an office in New Haven, Connecticut. It was founded in 2007 with the goal of making it easier for people to make green choices. Following on from the successful launch in 2008 of ecolabelling.org -- a platform to help companies and consumers understand ecolabels -- Big Room has launched its second major project: .eco (Dot Eco). Big Room is building a system that will use the Dot Eco domain to display current, detailed eco-information to anyone with a browser, anytime they need it, anywhere on the planet. For more information see www.doteco.info

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