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3 One Stop Shops for Your Daily Dose of Green

Posted on August 7, 2009
by Julie Urlaub

Looking for Green resources, education, and forums? Try these websites for your daily dose of green.

With the internet offering a sea of green resources, it's sometimes a challenge to navigate through the many websites to find the best resources. As we have learned in our eco friendly consulting, one site may be appealing to one individual while another may be more interesting to another.

The most common request from prospects and clients is a site that offers engagement, green education, hot topics, and “how to" information. Even better are sites that encourage online communities to collaborate and share with others about sustainability concepts, sustainable lifestyles and which eco actions to take as alternatives to traditional behaviors.

As shared in our eco friendly training, we offer a variety of websites tailored to deliver green living information. Explore the sites below and decide which one is appealing to you. Join the online community to share and expand eco awareness in your life as well as others.

Newly launched Climatarians, some of the cool features on this site include:

  • Users can create their own blog
  • Users can discuss on the forum or in their group
  • Users can write articles at their wiki
  • Users can login with their Facebook account and invite friends
  • Users can submit or search events and job openings

Sustainlane is the web's largest people-powered guide to sustainable living. Sustainlane is filled with personal accounts of how-to's, 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;
  • A community of like minded individuals willing to share information and personal experiences with each other.

GenGreenLife

The GenGreen network is a multi-faceted platform for communication, education and connection.

  • It includes green news headlines, job listings, and events, to tips helping those living a sustainable lifestyle.
  • Profiles, blogs, and personal event calendars are just a few of the resources that registered users can use when accessing the Network.
  • GenGreen created and maintains the largest database of accredited green businesses and organizations in the US, with a growing group of over 45,000 companies currently in their system, covering everything from recycling centers to solar panel companies.
  • GenGreen is also using their geo-centric IP and API to establish themselves in the mobile world and just announced its partnership with 3rdWhale Mobile

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