Ready to forge your path towards a greener lifestyle? Here are a few resources to get you started:
Websites:
All Green
Allie’s Answers (product reviews)
Be Turtle
Carbon Fund
The Climate Project (Al Gore)
Co-Op America
CSA Community- Supported Agriculture
Ecoholic
Emagazine
Energy Star
Environmental Defense Fund
Environmental Health News
The Green Guide (National Geographic)
Greenfeet(household products)
Grinning Planet
Green Choices
Kohler (bathroom/water conservation products)
Kyoto Protocol overview
Mother Earth News (Green Home Experts)
Natural Resources Defense Council
Rainforest Coalition
Rainforest Alliance (better consumer site)
Treehugger
WiserEarth
Local NYC websites:
Fashion Swap & Meet
Green Brooklyn
Lower East Side Ecology Center
NYC Mayor’s PLANYC
The Council of the Environment of NYC
NYC Wasteless
Park Slope Food Co-Op blogs
Recycling in NYC Schools
Sustainable Flatbush
City Solar
Books:
An Inconvenient Truth, Al Gore
The Omnivore’s Dilemma, Michael Pollan
Blessed Unrest, Paul Hawken
Cradle to Cradle, William McDonough & Michael Braungart
Garbage Land, Elizabeth Royte
Silent Spring, Rachel Carson
The Art of Simple Food, Alice Waters
Animal, Vegetable, Miracle: A Year of Food Life, Barbara Kingsolver
Fast Food Nation, Eric Schlosser
Field Notes from A Catastrophe: Man, Nature & Climate Change, Elizabeth Kolbert
Voluntary Simplicity: Toward a Way of Life that is Outwardly Simple, Inwardly Rich, Duane Elgin
Worldchanging: A User’s Guide for the 21st Century, Ed. Alex Steffen
Thanks for the link! This is a fantastic list!
Thanks for your wonderful product reviews!!
That’s an extraordinary photo. I love it. Where is it?
That’s the Brooklyn Botanical Garden – my own backyard.