Living Green

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Buying Green Energy

  • Tools and Calculators
    • Green Power Locator
      In buying green power, your organization can receive valuable recognition and help protect the environment. Green power can be one of the easiest and most effective ways to reduce the environmental impacts associated with your organization’s conventional electricity use.
    • Personal Emmissions Calculator
    • eGRID is a comprehensive inventory of environmental attributes of electric power systems.
    • Equivalency Calculator, a greenhouse gas emissions calculator that can help you easily translate green-house gas reductions into easy-to-understand equivalencies.
    • Power Profiler is a tool developed by EPA that helps you determine the specific air emissions impacts associated with the electricity you use in your home or business.

  • Database of State Incentives for Renewables & Efficiency
    DSIRE is a comprehensive source of information on state, local, utility, and federal incentives that promote renewable energy and energy efficiency.

  • The Green Power Network
    The Green Power Network (GPN) provides news and information on green power markets and related activities. The site provides up-to-date information on green power providers, product offerings, consumer protection issues, and policies affecting green power markets. The Green Power Network is operated and maintained by the National Renewable Energy Laboratory for the U.S. Department of Energy.

  • Find Solar

  • Green-e.org

  • Powur

Green Web Hosting

  • GreenestHost
    100% Solar Powered. Greenest Host offers zero emissions web hosting. Unlike other "Green" hosting solutions that rely on Renewable Energy Credits (RECs) to offset their non-renewable energy usage. We simply don't create the pollution in the first place. We power all of our servers with 100% clean solar power 100% of the time.

Ecotourism

  • International Ecotourism Society
    Uniting communities, conservation and sustainable travel, TIES promotes responsible travel to natural areas that conserves the environment and improves the well-being of local people.

Cars

Rental

  • Bio-Beetle
    Biodiesel is a cleaner-burning alternative "diesel" fuel, made from 100% natural, 100% renewable sources. Biodiesel can be used in place of standard diesel (which is made from fossil fuels) in almost any place that regular diesel is called for.

    On Maui most biodiesel is made from used cooking oil. This cooking oil is collected primarily from restaurants that have deep fat fryers that cook foods like French fries. These restaurants usually hire a pumping company to collect their oil after they are done with it, who then bring it to the biodiesel processor.

  • EVRental Cars
    Environmental Rental Car Company

  • Air Travel
    ClimateCare.org
    Air Travel Carbon offset calculator;
    Climate Care was set up to tackle climate change by reducing greenhouse gases in the atmosphere. We do this by offsetting - making CO2 reductions on behalf of individuals and companies.

  • David Suzuki Foundation
    Since 1990, the David Suzuki Foundation has worked to find ways for society to live in balance with the natural world that sustains us. Focusing on four program areas – oceans and sustainable fishing, climate change and clean energy, sustainability, and the Nature Challenge - the Foundation uses science and education to promote solutions that conserve nature and help achieve sustainability within a generation.

Hotels/Motels

Green Apparal

Miscellaneous

"Green" Social Networking Sites

Care2.com — Covering a broader area than just sustainability and environmental issues, Care2 also has a good sized section focusing upon Green Living.

Change.org — aimed at social activism, one of the major topic areas involves addressing environmental issues.

Changing the Present — enables people and businesses to make “donation” gifts to “friends, colleagues and employees, as meaningful alternative to traditional presents.” You can create a profile page on the site, including information about your favorite non profits, and include a wish list and registry, as well as giving donation gifts through the site, and letting people know about the gift given on their behalf via a personalized (paper) greeting card. And yes, there is a social aspect to the site.

Dotherightthing — Social Watchdog site that allows people (consumers, investors, employees) to share information about how socially and enviromentally responsible businesses are.

Fivelimes — Allows community members to post about green products and green news.

Gigoit — Many items that are resuable end up in trashbins and landfills. This site allows people to donate or receive reusable items. Great idea, but I’m not sure that it is as active as it could be. There’s also a “free” section at Craig’s list where you can offer or find items that people are giving away.

Green Options — A multiple user journal about environmental issues, education and resources.

Greenvoice — Their news section has a digg like interface.

Gusse — Targeted at urban sustainability issues for city builders.

Hugg - A green Digg

Hunuh.org They tell us that they are a “Lean-Clean-Green-Technology collaboration space” in their “about us” page, and allow shameless self promotion for anything that is good for the environment

The Nature Conservancy Groupspace — you can create your own Gather page, and become a member of the Nature Conservancy Group.

Playgreen — A wiki focusing upon sustainable development.

RiverWired — News, blogs, and videos all about green issues.

Treehugger — Possibly the best known green community site online right now. In addition to an active discussion forum, they also run Hugg, mentioned above.

Worldchanging - A group blog, where visitors can comment upon posts, and can submit suggestions for stories. A very informative site, filled with high quality articles.

Yahoo! Green — Think about the environmental elements found in Yahoo Answers, News, and add links to blogs posts on environmental issues, and you have a sense of what Yahoo’s Green is about. Would love to see images from Flickr and bookmarks from Delicious incorporated into this.

Zaadz — The mission behind Zaadz is to “change the world,” and to do it on a grass roots level, by letting people who share common interests to find each other. A subdomain of the site tells us that Zaadzsters are Green!