In case you missed starter's orders, Energy Saving Week is underway, and this year's big theme is communities. Which is the most influential - the church? The WI? Local towns? My main green community is online: this blog, other blogs, on forums, Facebook, on my Delicious links and elsewhere. Here's a big list of links to green communities I like, after the click-through.
- Tree-Nation (eco Facebook with offsetting)
- Actics (ethical social networking)
- I Am Green (Facebook app for pledges, pictured above)
- CSR Chicks (Yahoo Group - as it sounds)
- Greenbook (Facebook app involving offsets)
- Blog Action Day (bloggers posted on 'environment' this year)
- Transition Towns (communities cutting carbon)
- Freecycle (free eBay)
- WattWatt (energy efficiency geek talk and articles)
- ClimatePrediction.Net (distributed computing for climate modelling)
- Hugg (social green news site)
- The Nag (green actions, by county)
- PledgeBank (pledge to do something if others will too)
- LowFlyZone (make a public no flying pledge)
- Ethical Events UK and other green Google Calendars (my own GCal, which I really should make editable by the public)
- Friends of the Earth Living Forum (general green forum)
- Treehugger (blog with great comments)
- New Builder Forums (eco self-build forums)
- The Carbon Diet (compare your carbon footprint with others)
- CarbonDAQ (RSA's carbon comparison site, very beta)
- Typepad/Blogger (for making it easy to blog about green issues)
Now this list is far from complete - please add your own favourite online eco communities and social networking sites in the comments.
Great list of UK resources, Adam...
I also like some of the green groups listed on http://www.tribe.net as well as http://www.zaadz.com, though it can be a little overbearing sometimes...
Posted by: Timothy Latz | October 23, 2007 at 05:23 AM
a little late to add on but i personally love www.idealbite.com... they send you very easy and adoptable tips on how to live a greener life.
Posted by: priya | December 17, 2007 at 06:55 PM
a little late to add on but i personally love www.idealbite.com... they send you very easy and adoptable tips on how to live a greener life.
Posted by: priya | December 17, 2007 at 06:56 PM
Hey just let you all know the virtual recycling community is now up to 6000 and growing. We are encouraging everyone to throw all their unwanted presents from last year into a skip. These will go to good homes to be reused again. www.vskips.org
Happy New Year to all Green aware folk
Posted by: Len | January 04, 2008 at 12:59 PM
Great list Adam -also I find MySkip.com and gumtree to be great too.
Posted by: Phoebe K | February 09, 2009 at 05:12 PM
You should also check out The Chic Ecologist (http://www.thechicecologist.com) - They have a lot of great green living tips and reviews!
Posted by: JP | February 20, 2009 at 05:34 PM
great post
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