Tips and ideas for the home and office and for kids, students, parents and families on green, eco-friendly and sustainable living.
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.
You can use eBay to find reclaimed goods
and salvage goods
easily. The majority of these goods are available at market or lower prices, and buyer security is a priority.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Off-Grid News, advice, forum discussions and more from this very comprehensive site on living off-grid. As for their Links section, you've never seen a resource like this for alternative energy!
Recycling Revolution From shower curtains and shoe laces to egg boxes and envelopes, this site has a wealth of ideas on how how to reuse and recycle everyday household items.
Eat The Seasons: Seasonal Food Guide This UK-based site has offers seasonal food information, tips and ideas and is updated every week with new suggestions and recipes. It has a version for the UK and Ireland and another version for the US and Canada. Great resource.
Planet Green: How to Go Green: Water The complete lowdown from Planet Green on water conservation tips and products. As always, this article is packed with useful advice, facts and links.
Planet Green: Eco Shoes News, Advice and Guides If you're looking to literally reduce your carbon footprint by buying green shoes and maintaining your footwear using eco products, then this is an essential resource for you. Articles range from the sublime ("How to Extend the Life of Your Hiking Boots") to the slightly ridiculous ("5 Reuses for Orphan Boots and Shoes"), though the advice is always valid and presented in a fun and accessible way.
