Earth.org – meet the team

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  earthorgcollect 8:46 am on May 22, 2009 Permalink
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  Frequently Asked Questions #3: Earth.org projects 

  1. What kind of projects has Earth.org supported in the past?
  We planted 237 trees in India – one for each country in the world. We went to a very small remote village in the Indian Himalaya’s as the first tourists – and took pictures of the inhabitants. Afterwards we framed the picture, gifted them back to the villagers and saw a vision of pure happyness.
  We support what is sustainable or culturally interesting. We are very open to sustainable projects, and one day hope to support a large variety of these projects.

  2. How do we finance projects?

  These days we fund them more with knowledge and engagement than with money. These projects also exist to transfer the idea of Earth.org. The profits currently do not exist to fund these projects on an advanced level – something we hope to change.

  Learn more about Earth.org projects.

   
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  earthorgcollect 7:42 am on May 15, 2009 Permalink
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  Frequently Asked Question #2 – Legal Stuff 

  Who is behind the Earth.org GmbH?

  A team of about 20 members – most of them part time. Two brothers with perfectly working family ties share the ownership of the Earth.org GmbH – small enough to assure the values of Earth.org.

  Why is Earth.org a GmbH?

  A GmbH is a private limited company. We use the GmbH as a vehicle to do want we need to do. Complicated laws for all not for profit ventures in Germany prevented the founding in a different type of company. Still, even inside a GmbH you can promise to donate up to 100% of all profits to non profits.

  What do we want to say with .ORG? – Even tough we are a GmbH.

  Earth.org is a collaboratively written travel guide with a non-profit approach. And although legally we are a GmbH, we don’t have commercial interests as our goal. Instead we want to bring responsible travel information to everyone. Why? Because we think this will make the world a little bit better! We don’t feel that a commercial .com domain would fit very well with such an approach. A .org is much more of a natural fit for Earth.org.

   
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  earthorgcollect 7:36 am on May 1, 2009 Permalink
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  All You Ever Needed To Know About Earth.org: FAQ's #1 

  When was Earth.org founded? Why is Earth.org a GmbH? What the hell is a GmbH? Why is Earth.org 100% remote team?

  NO IDEA? §$&/°°!”§

  Ok, no problem, don’t worry. We will unearth the truth. By posting Frequently Asked Questions, starting today, basically giving you all you ever needed to know.

  Wicked, huh!? Ok, let’s start with Frequently Asked Question #1.

  When was Earth.org founded?

  Earth.org’s pure idea is dating back till end 2004. Due to financial constrains we were not able to put it on a professional level, technical development was always the key issue. End 2007 the idea came up to work in a 100% remote environment of self motivated professionals – this was the crucial point and a perfect fit to the project. 2008 was the year in which we founded such a 100% team around Earth.org, able to cope with the enormous challenges of such big project. A stable and scalable software version gives us now in 2009 the chance to release Earth.org!

   
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  teresa 4:44 pm on March 18, 2009 Permalink
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  All you ever needed to know 

  When was Earth.org founded?  Why is Earth.org a GmbH?  What the hell is a GmbH?  Why is Earth.org 100% remote team?

  NO IDEA? §$&/°°!”§

  
  

  Ok, no problem, don’t worry. We will unearth the truth. By posting Frequently Asked Questions, starting today with the first one, basically giving you all you ever needed to know.

  Wicked, huh!? Ok, let’s start with Question #1

  When was Earth.org founded?

  Earth.org’s pure idea is dating back till end 2004. Due to financial constrains we were not able to put it on a professional level, technical development was always the key issue. End 2007 the idea came up to work in a 100% remote environment of self motivated professionals – this was the crucial point and a perfect fit to the project. 2008 was the year in which we founded such a 100% team around Earth.org, able to cope with the enormous challenges of such big project. A stable and scalable software version gives us now in 2009 the chance to release Earth.org!