Some of My Favorite Green Sites
These are some of the sites I follow or think are cool: organizations, products and services, and informational.
Send me a note if you see a site that might be included (but warning: the goal is to be helpful, not to goose your Google rankings).
Green Information and Tips Sites
- 50 Ways to Help the Planet
A wonderful, simple graphic set of great tips - Alltop Green Sites Directory
Nice listing of top stories from top green sites - An Inconvenient Truth
Al Gore’s incredibly well produced, watchable, important movie - Build Baby Build
Promoting energy independence, one community at a time - CARMA: Is Your Power Plant Green?
Database of power plants searchable by zip code, showing primary fuels and carbon impact. - Climate Progress: A Real Climate Scientist Provides Actual Facts
A scientifically based perspective on climate science, climate solutions, and climate politics. - End of Oil by Paul Roberts
Paul Roberts’ incredible book that made me realize how important energy is. Still relevant after a few years. - Energy Circle: Green Products by Real (Green) People
An online store of green products they have actually, with wonderful blog posts, videos, and incredible information about which to buy, how to install, etc. - GetRealList — Deal with Reality or it will deal with you
I can’t believe I haven’t seen this site before — dead on analysis, facts, and great editorial voice - IdealBite
Daily Tip sent by email, fun and easy things you can do to make a difference - Mapawatt
Blog on Energy and Water Conservation - MetaEfficient
Reviews of Green Products — Excellent! - Open4Energy
A community sharing good energy conservation ideas - Spot Oil, Gas Price Daily
WRTG Economics great site, with daily spot prices for oil, gas, and more - Sustainable Green Building Products: MAA Center
Asbestos and other toxic materials are needless when building houses - TerraPass Blog
TerraPass sells carbon offsets and funds projects with the money, and they also have a fantastic blog. - Treehugger
Earthy, crunchy and unabashedly granolan. All the green you can eat. Rock on! - US EPA Vehicle MPG
US Government Fuel Economy Site: search vehicle MPG by make, model and year.
- 50 Ways to Help the Planet
Green Organizations
- 350.org
350 Parts per Million is the highest concentration of CO2 scientists believe the earth can sustain. Bill McKibbon and others are working hard to get us there. - Carbonfund.org
Carbon Offsets for Consumers, like TerraPass, but not-for-profit - CARMA: Is Your Power Plant Green?
Database of power plants searchable by zip code, showing primary fuels and carbon impact. - Climate Progress: A Real Climate Scientist Provides Actual Facts
A scientifically based perspective on climate science, climate solutions, and climate politics. - Earth Hour
Turn the lights out for one hour, once a year to make a statement visible around the world - Earth911 Recycling
Local resources showing how and where to recycle just about anything - Environmental Action
An advocacy group founded by some of the people that got the green movement started 35 years ago - Environmental Defense Fund
Fred Krupp and other heroes whose legal skills saved us from 8 coal plants (just to name one thing) - GreenAmerica
Economic Action for a Just Planet, and the former home of Van Jones, now working in the Obama administration - Is Climate Change Real?
Global Warming facts and myths. A clear and simple explanation. - NRDC (Natural Resources Defense Council)
Lawyers aren’t all bad guys — NRDC goes after polluters with a vengeance - ReadYourMeter.org
A cool site that allows you to track your energy bill, and even share and compare with others - Rocky Mountain Institute: RMI
Amory Lovins and crew Helping Businesses Make Money Doing what’s Right - SaveOurEnvironment.org
A collaborative effort of the nation’s most influential environmental advocacy organizations - Sierra Club
One of the nations oldest defenders of the environment - The Nature Conservancy
Buying and protecting land through donations - WattzOn: Personalizing Energy Consumption
How many watts do you use? - We Campaign
We Can Solve It (the Climate Crisis, that is) - YellowPagesGoesGreen.Org
Stop Yellow Pages from Being Dumped on your Doorstep
- 350.org
Green Products and Services
- Adaptive Lighting Solutions
Cool covers that clip on to spiral CFLs, useful when mounted in ceiling lights or other enclosed fixtures — covers diffuse the light, cover the spiral, and make the light warmer - Arc Renewables: Rooftop Wind Turbines
A new kind of roof mountable turbine that is extremely efficient - BetterWorld Auto Club
An environmentally sound alternative to AAA auto club — BetterWorld aims to get people out of cars, and doesn’t advocate for “car rights” - Econogics, Home of the Water Saver
A tiny little device that installs in your toilet and saves a little water every flush - Energy Circle: Green Products by Real (Green) People
An online store of green products they have actually, with wonderful blog posts, videos, and incredible information about which to buy, how to install, etc. - Energy Metrics: Energy Audits in New England
David Fay and Son have made a green business - GreenGear
Actual reviews by real people of sustainable products - Plenty Magazine
The World in Green - PowerDown
A SF Bay area energy audit and contracting company helping reduce electricity bills and carbon footprints of their customers. - Shower Professor
Simple, inexpensive electronic shower timer that helps you keep showers short - TerraPass Blog
TerraPass sells carbon offsets and funds projects with the money, and they also have a fantastic blog. - Tonic Mailstopper (formerly GreenDimes)
Service Stops Junk Mail for a dime a day, and boy does it work! - YellowPagesGoesGreen.Org
Stop Yellow Pages from Being Dumped on your Doorstep
- Adaptive Lighting Solutions
My Favorite Sites
- GetRealList — Deal with Reality or it will deal with you
I can’t believe I haven’t seen this site before — dead on analysis, facts, and great editorial voice
- GetRealList — Deal with Reality or it will deal with you