EcoGeek website: growth and milestones (2007)
project history · status: last documented in 2007 (looked back on in 2026) · last event: milestone (2007-12-06) · last mentioned: 2026-02-24
Hank's blog EcoGeek in 2007: featured on Yahoo's green site, named one of PC Magazine's 100 best websites and reaching its three millionth visitor. Looking back in 2025 and 2026, John said it was successful and profitable but faded as Hank took on more projects.
Parts: Hank: EcoGeek podcast (2007)
Told alongside: EcoGeek relaunch: Hank and DFTBA's eco-conscious cleaning-supply subscription, profits to the Coral Reef Alliance (2025) · Hank's confidential meeting with Yahoo (2007)
About: EcoGeek, PC Magazine
| date | event | what | video |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2007-05-21 | milestone | Hank announces that Yahoo's new site green.yahoo.com features EcoGeek content alongside NRDC, Amory Lovins, TreeHugger and Worldchanging. | May 21st: Comment Bashing, Anniversaries and EBO Ladies 00:01:36 |
| 2007-10-24 | milestone | John reports that PC Magazine named EcoGeek.org one of the 100 best websites on the internet. | October 24th: RANDOM NERDFIGHTING 00:03:12 |
| 2007-12-06 | milestone | John congratulates Hank on EcoGeek's three millionth visitor. | Dec. 6th: Peer Pressure and the Green Green Manifesto 00:03:34 |
| 2025-03-11 | looked back | John says EcoGeek was successful, but the volume of Hank's other projects overwhelmed him and it sort of went away, except Hank Green ideas never do. | Hank Green's Brother 00:01:28 |
| 2026-02-24 | looked back | John says that flexibility came from earlier risks: in his early 20s Hank started the blog EcoGeek, which became profitable. | Risk Is a Privilege 00:00:58 |
What is said about it
2 statements, by date (the events above are the turns of the thread; these are the details).
- 2007-05-21 · May 21st: Comment Bashing, Anniversaries and EBO Ladies — Hank says the Yahoo deal took a long time and was secret, so he couldn't tell John; it worked out and Yahoo now sends EcoGeek lots of traffic. — 00:01:36
- 2007-10-24 · October 24th: RANDOM NERDFIGHTING — John reports that PC Magazine named Hank's EcoGeek.org one of the 100 best websites on the internet. — 00:03:12