Green Living, Sustainable
This section provides information, reosurces and links on a range of green living topics including going green, recycling, personal emissions reduction, energy efficiency and sustainable living.
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Includes topics such as green living, going green, personal emissions reduction and energy efficiency.
Greeniacs.com is an online community that allows users to interact with one another in a fun, friendly, and supportive atmosphere. Web site includes a community portal with news, commentary, forum, and social networking.
Users take a test to measure their “greenness” and then custom tips are provided weekly according to individual green interests. Blog Link
Green Wikia strives to become a trusted central place to share our growing and evolving body of knowledge about environmental topics and issues with people who want to inform themselves and live in a more sustainable way. The Green Wikia community also believes that the threats to our environment are real and that they require action. However, the wiki also strives to foster a community where respectful debate and informed viewpoints can be heard.
Healthy Child Healthy World is dedicated to protecting the health and well being of children from harmful environmental exposures. We educate parents, support protective policies, and engage communities to make responsible decisions, simple everyday choices, and well-informed lifestyle improvements to create healthy environments where children and families can flourish. Blog Link
How Stuff Works - Ten Things You Can Do to Help Save the Earth
Going green is easier than you think. There are little things you can do every day to help reduce greenhouse gases and make a less harmful impact on the environment. Taking care of the Earth is not just a responsibility, it's a privilege. In that spirit, HowStuffWorks came up with 10 things you can do to help save the Earth.
Austin (TX) American Statesman’s portal site on green and sustainable living.
At Low Impact Living, we want to help you lower the environmental impact of your home and your daily life. To do that, we help you find the best green products, practices and service providers to help you achieve your environmental goals. And we will also help you understand the environmental benefits and economic trade-offs of your choices. Our primary goal is to make the path from inspiration to implementation as short and as smooth as possible. Only by taking action will we collectively reduce the damage to our planet and ecosystems.
Interactive site that calculates users environmental impact, suggests actions to take to reduce their footprint and tracks their progress. Blog Link
MSN’s green living portal.
National Geographic - The Green Guide 
National Geographic Green Guide makes living in an environmentally aware way personal, practical and positive. Intended for general consumers, Green Guide shows people how to make small changes that add up to big benefits for their wallets, for their health, and, of course, for the health of the planet. Not political or activist, the GREEN GUIDE is chock full of simple, useful ideas broken down into achievable steps that make going green a gradual and affordable process rather than an all-or-nothing plunge.Blog Link
Natural Resource Defense Council green living portal with news, information, tips and resources. Blog Link
Off-Grid.net is an eclectic mix of practical advice, news from the on-grid world and issues rarely covered by the mainstream media and promotes the many enterprises that are working for a sustainable future. We campaign on issues affecting people who live or work off-grid, including issues such as zoning/planning permission where we are calling for changes to allow people to receive special permission to set up off-grid homes in places whihc do not currently have residential permission.
Planet Ark works to show people and businesses the many ways they can reduce their day to day impact on the environment - at home, at work and in the community. Planet Ark runs a number of environmental campaigns and initiatives to show people the many ways they can reduce their day to day impact on the environment - at home, at work and in the community.
Companion web site of Discovery Communication’s 24-hour eco-lifestyle television network.
Sharing Sustainable Solutions.org
Sharing Sustainable Solutions is a non-profit, non commercial site to help individuals and communities move towards self-sustainability, self-reliance, and autonomy. It is a nexus point for communities, ecological, appropiate technology, alternative technology, low-tech, mutual cooperation, to meet and share information, ideas, and projects to make living in harmony with nature and one another a reality.
Online companion site to the Sundance Channel’s “The Green” program focusing on green living topics. Also features Eco-mmunity - an interactive map that lets you add and search for green-minded people, businesses, events, locations, attractions or action points. Blog Link
Green living portal with news, features, tips, articles, and resources for consumers.
TreeHugger - How to Go Green Guides
More than 30 guides on various ways to green your life. TreeHugger is the leading media outlet dedicated to driving sustainability mainstream. Partial to a modern aesthetic, we strive to be a one-stop shop for green news, solutions, and product information.
Energy calculators for buildings, homes, industry and vehicles.
ViroPOP - A Green Video Network
ViroPOP is a green video network aimed at highlighting the most exciting and entertaining things happening in the new eco-revolution. ViroPop is the first network on the Internet to treat the new environmental pop culture with a sense of irreverent fun. At ViroPop, everyone’s green. The question is: What shade are you? Blog Link
Community portal with news, commentary, forum, and social networking. WeEarth is a network of resources enabling us to explore our connectedness with each other and with our changing world.
Tips, articles, reviews and resources for green living. Blog Link