We bring together the best resources, links and tips for going green and leading an eco-friendly sustainable life.
Nigel's Eco Store aim to offer environmentally friendly products for sustainable, low carbon living. You'll find recycled bags, energy saving gadgets, green gifts and much much more. Well worth checking out.
Ecotopia This eco store features sections for House & Home, Garden & Wildlife, Parent & Child, Bodycare and Gadgets & Transport. Particularly good site to find good deals on eco products from Ecover, Clear Spring and Bio-d.
Haute Nature: Furniture This regularly updated news eco design news blog is a great resource for anyone who wants their eco furniture to be seriously stylish as well as good for the environment.
The Daily Green offers lots of tips on green living and offers its readers the possibility of supplying their own reviews of green products. It's primarily aimed at a female readership but contains advice relevant to anyone who's keen on going green. One particurlarly interesting article has for its title “Everything You Know About Going Green Is Wrong”
TreeHugger: How to Go Green Guides Treehugger is quickly establishing itself as THE reference for eco-consumer reviews and advice. Along with their sister site Planet Green, they offer a wealth of invaluable resources for green living.
Planet Green: How to Go Green Guides Like its sister site Treehugger, Planet Green is a priceless reference for eco-consumer reviews and advice. News, articles, reviews, videos, quizzes, it's got it all!
Daily Eco Tips: Natural Beauty Tips Daily Eco Tips offer exactly what the name suggests: ways to be a little bit greener day by day. This page brings together their advice and recommendations for eco-friendly cosmetics.
The Green Guide: Personal Care The Green Guide team offer you eco-advice on everything from earth-friendly moisturizers to alternatives to petroleum-based lip balms. Fantastic service.
Whole Living: Eco Office Space Guide Fantastic piece of research done by the people at Whole Living. It not only gives advice on where to find eco furniture, electronics and office supplies but also gives some sound advice for practices within the workplace.
Healthy Stuff: Toxic Chemicals in Children's Products This service allows you to search for a product by its name, its product code, manufacturer, or retailer to check whether it has been made using toxic materials or chemicals that could harm your eco child. Great resource.
Planet Green: How to Go Green: Pets The Planet Green team bring us another concise yet super informative guide in their Go Green section. This 7-page guide to looking after pets in an eco-friendly way includes a great list of stores where you can find green pet products for sale.
Sustainable Village Everything you need to be self-reliant and “less dependent on centralized systems”. Extensive range of all the equipment you could possibly need to run a sustainable home.
Planet Green: How to Go Green: At Work Planet Green always deliver the goods when it comes to sound ecological consumer advice. In this article they give tips on all aspects of greenifying the workplace.
Eco Wedding A useful guide for anyone planning an eco-wedding and looking for inspiration of the contact details of services who can help you make your big day that little bit greener.
The Daily Green: The Green Cheapskate This Daily Green blog guide to saving money is constantly updated with essential green money-saving ideas as well as some guides which come out of leftfield such as 20 Money-Saving Ways to Reuse Old Pantyhose!
Care2Care: Green Living Care2's Green Living section is broken down into the following categories: Food & Recipes, Health & Wellness, Healthy Home, Family Life, True Beauty, Spirituality, Astrology, Pets, On the Go, Ask Annie, Blogs and Shopping. The Ask Annie section is particulary useful for finding answers to all those tricky eco questions like "Do Food Additives Cause Hyperactivity?" and to find green guides such as Basics for Non-Toxic Cleaning and Natural Way to Clear a Clogged Drain.
Go Green Tube If it didn't already exist someone would have to invent it... a whole Youtube-style video channel dedicated to shorts on the environment, green technologies, innovations, products, and services. Two thumbs up from the EcOrganic crew!
Yahoo: Green Yahoo have brought together a fantastic collection of articles, reviews and guides to advise you on every aspect of green living. Areas covered include: Buying a Fuel-Efficient Car, Commuting, Finding a Green Job, Gardening, Recycling, Recycling Electronics, Researching Global Warming Basics, Researching Your Vote and Reusing Stuff. The site also features a great shopping area where everything from bags made from truck tires to biodegradable golf tees is reviewed under the heading Why It's Green with a link either to subsidiary stores like The Green Loop or to Yahoo's own shopping page.
FreeCycle With nearly 5000 groups around the world and verging on 7 million members, The Freecycle Network heralds a veritable revolution in reuse sustainable culture. Rather than buying a new product (complete with carbon footprint) sign up to freecycle and find out what's already out there for free. A genius concept and a whole world of incredible giveaways to discover.
