Posts Tagged ‘green’

Before you ever “hit the dirt” this gardening season, you can go online for tips, inspiration, and how-to advice to help you make the most your of time outdoors. Whether you’re a seasoned gardener or a complete newbie, there is always room to grow (pun intended), so check out these gardening- and outdoors-related websites to green up that thumb of yours in no time!

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If you’re new to the gardening scene, your very best bet is the iVillage GardenWeb. This site full of forums, photo galleries, and advice from experts is the place to begin. This is where you can figure out the basics – like which gardening zone you’re in, how to prepare a new garden plot, and how to grow pretty much anything, indoors our out. Peruse the “Ask the Experts” area for a compilation of the most frequently asked questions on the site, and you’ll learn more than any textbook could ever teach you. Visit the “Blogs” section to find postings compiled from favorite garden bloggers around the Web. Read more

Join Baratunde Thurston (left), The Onion’s Director of Digital and author of How to Be Black, for an entertaining look at creative social media campaigns in our Social Media Marketing Boot Camp starting February 16. Other speakers include Morin Oluwole (Facebook), Tim Devane (bitly), and SocialTimes' writer Devon Glenn.   Register now.

Want to do your part to help save the environment and live a greener life? There’s such a flood of information on the web, it’s hard to figure out where to start. Here’s our list of the best green sites to help you lessen your environmental impact:

Treehugger – The go-to site for everything green. It has sub-blogs about going green, environmental politics, green jobs, travel tips and more. It also has a healthy sense of humor. With tons of new content everyday, Treehugger is easily the top sustainability site on the web.

Grist – Time Magazine called Grist “the Colbert Report of climate change, the Daily Show of deforestation, the Oprah of oil dependency – except with real reporting and analytical journalism.” We couldn’t have said it better ourselves.

The Daily Green – A useful site for greening all parts of your daily life, from your meals to your lightbulbs to your shopping. Comes in digestible little bites like the “One Easy Thing” feature and green gift buying guides. Read more

There are so many amazing people on Twitter that are devoted to green living that range from moms talking about toxins to policy analysts to outright activism.

We’ve compiled a list of 20 Green People to follow on Twitter that you should check out to stay current on green trends and politics or even just to learn tips on how to improve your own footprint here on Earth. Read more

Environmental problems, issues and solutions will always be a hot topic in both the online and offline world. There’s probably thousands or more websites catering to green computing, green marketing and everything else that you can probably attached with environmental or green contents. But despite the dearth of “green” information resources – blogs, social networks, video contents etc, Wikipedia’s Jimmy Wales did not mind it and launches a green version of his open-source encyclopedia and calls it Wikia Green. Read more

There’s a new search engine in town that keeps on giving. And giving…

ClimateGift.com yields the same type of results you’d expect from Google and Yahoo. What sets them apart is that they donate 50% of gross revenue to three highly-respected environmental organizations.

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