Ever wonder where you can get energy efficient refrigerators, find a recycling center near you, read eco friendly news, and find which companies are going green. Here is a list that might help you solve that problem.
Shopping for appliances, beauty products or green retailers then try these online sources:
Greener Choices – launched on Earth Day 2005 by Consumers Union, the non-profit publisher of Consumer Reports, is a Web-based initiative to inform, engage, and empower consumers about environmentally-friendly products and practices.
Good Guide – they will help you find better products that represent your values, avoid products that are harmful to your health, the environment, or society – and enable you to take actions to help improve the world.
Greenzer – collects product and merchant information from across the internet to filter and arrange it into a comprehensive catalogue of the web’s best and greenest products.
Want to make a difference? The following two organization help online visitors find areas where you can make a difference.
Natural Resources Defense Council – works to protect wildlife and wild places and to ensure a healthy environment for all life on earth.
Carbon Fund – is leading the fight against global warming, making it easy and affordable for any individual, business or organization to reduce & offset their climate impact and hasten the transition to a clean energy future.
Concerned about what’s in your personal care products? These two organization have all the information on cosmetic products and even how much mercury is in your water.
Environmental Working Group – specializes in providing useful resources (like Skin Deep and the Shoppers’ Guide to Pesticides in Produce) to consumers while simultaneously pushing for national policy change.
Environmental Protection Agency – protecting the environment is everyone’s responsibility, and starts with understanding the issues. The basics include reducing how much energy and materials you use, reusing what you can and recycling the rest.
In the next blog post I’ll give you a list of some great books worth exploring on eco-friendly eating and how to minimize your impact on the planet.
