100 Essential Green Internet Resources

100 of the Most Essential Green Web Resources

By Ecoist in Featured Articles, Technology & Gadgets, Tricks & Hacks

The green web is growing faster than over-fertilized bamboo and many websites have cropped up to fill the ever-growing green movement. This guide will help you navigate the vast array of environmental websites starting with the best green blogs, tools, applications and resources and ending with forums, social media sites, environmental agencies and organizations. The former will provide a window to green information and ways to go green and the latter will help connect you with others interested and involved in today’s top environmental issues as well as green design, sustainable living and environmental oddities of the world.

25 of the Best Green Blogs and News Websiites: How does one begin to sort through the overwhelming 6,000 environmental blogs listed on Technorati, particularly with new sites cropping up daily? There are many compelling green blogs but this list factors in multiple forms of ranking to boil the vast green blogosphere down to 25 essential websites in critical general categories including news, lifestyle, design, ethical consumption, analysis and opinion.

25 of the Best Green Web Tools, Applications and Resources: The growing green web is by no means limited to blogs and news sites. There are a vast number of green tools, applications and resources that can help you go greener in many aspects of your daily life. Some of these can help you assess (and/or reduce) your ecological impact. Some will help you surf and search in a greener way while online and others will help you find farmers’ markets and other things offline.

25 of the Best Green Forums and Social Media Websites: Going green is all about getting involved, staying connected and sharing information. Green forums and environmental social media websites are great places for green-minded people to connect on any area of interest from anywhere in the world. As the green web grows so do new ideas and ways of collaborating across vast physical and cultural distances.

25 of the Best Green Agencies and Organizations Online: So you want to get involved at a deeper level, sign up, volunteer and maybe even donate some money? There are a lot of environmental agencies and organizations out there focusing on all kinds of projects from conservation to education. This set compromises 25 of the most well-respected and established sustainable-minded organizations.

Good stuff!

I think we can’t talk about sustainability without mentioning William McDonough:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_McDonough
and the “Cradle to cradle” community:
http://www.mbdc.com/

SustainLane.com is filled with personal accounts of how-tos, news, and local business and product reviews for sustainable living.

The site connects interested consumers with the tools and information on everything related to green, including:

* The largest directory of local, green-friendly businesses in the United States with over 20,000 small business listings;
* Consumer-generated how-tos, news and product reviews of new green offerings in the marketplace; and
* A community of likeminded individuals willing to share information and personal experiences with each other.

We would like to share what we do in Central Florida in hopes that others will join us or start a waterway cleanup group in their hometown. We even have a website that provides more details about our operations and regional regulations. Watch the “Take ECO-Action!” video below for more information.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nyEbhWk0lhQ

Thanks!
Captain Frank
ECO-Action

Green Hope Offsets (GHO) is a Florida-based carbon offset company that will offer carbon offset credits to individuals and companies. Green Hope Offsets is different from other carbon credit companies in that it will use its profits and dividends to make low income home owner’s homes more energy efficient. These homes will be provided with products such as solar powered attic vents, new insulation, and rain barrels.

http://www.greenhopeoffsets.com

Check also http://www.people4earth.net.

People for Earth is both a social network and a wiki ECO guide with the purpose of inspiring and empowering people to enjoy more eco-friendly and fulfilling lives. This way we contribute to saving the Earth and grow to be much better people.

Nice article.

I would like to share with you one startup that aims to save money and environment: neighborrow.com.

neighBORROW is a “green” web-based start-up that facilitates the borrowing and lending things among neighbors or other groups. neighBORROW combines the traditional notion of borrowing a cup of sugar from a neighbor with modern technology, using the Internet to facilitate borrowing and lending of nearly anything among people in local networks. The website, currently in pBETA, uses accountability metrics such as deposits, user reputations and borrowing history and customizable privacy settings to help ensure the safety of its members’ property. Users have the flexibility to decide what and with whom they are willing to share by participating in private and public networks. These “neighBORROW-hoods,” have been created in apartment buildings, dormitories, offices, and other natural localities, and have been used to pool and catalog extensive online inventories of CDs, DVDs, video games, books, tools, sporting equipment, baby items and many other durable goods…

My problem is a big nest of wasps in the earth under my main garden path. I mulched with hay and the conditions are ideal for them. I do not want to put any toxic compounds in my garden. Have hung out “traps”, tried a dead fish hung over soapy water, hot vinegar and water bath, moth balls…so far the wasps are doing fine but I have had far too many stings.Hate to think they are hardier than I am, but not yet ready to call in a professional. Was referred to your website but do not find my solution here.

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