Posted on October 30, 2008 in Green Shopping, Lifestyle, Natural Resources by Site AdministratorNo Comments »

Although the organic movement is larger than ever, it’s still pretty difficult to find helpful information out there. Fortunately, there are a number of bloggers out there who have made it their mission to spread information about conscientious shopping and consumption. We’ve highlighted 50 of the best here.

Parenting

Child-rearing usually involves the purchase of a lot of stuff. These blogs will give you advice on how to reduce the amount of this stuff, and make sure that what you’re buying is responsible for your family and the world.

  1. Busy Moms Go Green: This mom is raising six "green" kids, and sings the praises of organic eating.
  2. Enviromom: These two stay-at-home moms are newbies in the green and organic movement, and they’re chronicling their baby steps.
  3. Eco Child’s Play: On Eco Child’s Play, you’ll find advice for toys, food, and more.
  4. It Takes a Planet: This mom focuses on natural resources for her family.
  5. Healthy Child Healthy World: Learn about organic food, pesticides, baby care, and more from this blog.
  6. Green Baby Guide: Get insider secrets on organic and sustainable baby gear from Joy and Rebecca.
  7. Ask an Organic Mom: These authors of The Complete Organic Pregnancy answer questions and give advice on making your pregnancy and child care as organic as possible.
  8. Raising Peanuts: This mom works to live as naturally and organically as possible.
  9. Crunchy Chicken: This family grows and makes their own food.

Consumption

Learn more about being a responsible organic shopper through these blogs.

  1. The Alternative Consumer: The Alternative Consumer blog writes about comparison shopping that goes beyond price.
  2. Egglog: The Egglog has lots of information on organic and green marketing.
  3. Organic Consumers Association: This association promotes the views and interests of socially responsible and organic consumers.
  4. Knowmore: Check out responsibility profiles for the companies you patronize.
  5. Leafygreen: Look to Leafygreen to learn more about organic and natural products.
  6. Fake Plastic Fish: Check out Beth Terry’s blog to learn how she’s living in a world without plastic.
  7. Life Less Plastic: With this blog, you’ll learn how to cut down on plastic products and find out how plastic negativelty affects our world.
  8. OrganicMania: Lynn at Organic Mania makes it easy to research and find information on organic products.
  9. Diane’s Big Green Purse: Diane believes that we can pressure polluters where it hurts-in the marketplace.

Lifestyle

These blogs will show you how to use organic products and principles in your daily life.

  1. Down to Earth: On Rhonda Hetzel’s blog, you’ll learn about gardening, green cleaning, and living a simpler life.
  2. The Accidental Environmentalist: This blogger writes about her lifestyle changes, and how she’s grown into a greener person.
  3. Green Eggs and Planet: Green Eggs and Planet provides readers with insight on healthy living through organics and beyond.
  4. The Lazy Environmentalist: Check out the Lazy Environmentalist for tips on how to go green and organic without sacrifices.
  5. Organic Picks: These bloggers find organic and sustainable products for their families.
  6. Alotta Errata: This blogger loves organic and local products, but admits that she doesn’t always get things right.
  7. Ideal Bite: Ideal Bite breaks "doing the right thing" into bite-sized ideas.
  8. La Vie Verte: Follow this guide to green living in France.

Home

Organic products aren’t limited to food-you can use them in your home, too. These blogs will show you how.

  1. Building Gypsy Rose: Learn how one house is being built in a sustainable way.
  2. design^sprout: In this design blog, you’ll find lots of great ideas for conscientious home design products, organic or otherwise.
  3. Low Impact Home: Find out how one Tennessee family is working to make a low impact home, from less plastic consumption to more organic products.
  4. Earth Friendly Gardening: Check out this blog to learn how you can create an earth-friendly garden of your own.
  5. My Green Home: This blog has loads of information about greening your home, from organic products to builders.
  6. Crafting a Green World: Check out this blog to learn about conscientious crafting.
  7. Broomhuggers: On the Broomhuggers blog, you’ll learn how to clean your home in a more organic and sustainable fashion.

Food

Learn more about organic food, recipes, and more with these blogs.

  1. Chews Wise: On Chews Wise, you’ll get information about the food system and where your food products come from.
  2. Culinate: Culinate aims to make food decisions easier, from when to buy organic to finding out where your food comes from.
  3. 100 Mile Diet: Learn how to eat food that’s produced within 100 miles of your home with this blog.
  4. Eat Local Challenge: Check out this group blog to learn all about eating locally and organically.
  5. Envirovore: Envirovore subscribes to the thought that we are what we eat, and they want to eat responsibly.
  6. Green Lemonade: This blog covers sustainability in food, asking you to become aware of what you put in your body and the effect it has on the world.
  7. Bean Sprouts: Melanie Rimmer’s household grows some of their own food, and works hard to be "green."
  8. Eat. Drink. Better: Discover more about the world of food from this blog.
  9. FoodShed Planet: This blog discusses sustainability in food any beyond.
  10. Edible Nation: Learn about eating local, organic, and tasty food from this blog.

Ethics, Safety and Policy

Learn about the political side of organic consumption in these blogs.

  1. Muddy Dog Roasting Co.: Check out this blog to learn more about sustainable coffee.
  2. The Ethicurean: This blog encourages readers to "chew the right thing."
  3. Coffee & Conservation: This blog illustrates the connection between coffee and the environment, particularly bird habitats.
  4. Beyond Pesticides: Learn about the environmental and health hazards of pesticides, and alternatives to their use in this blog.
  5. Farm Policy: Hear about the latest in food politics from this blog.
  6. Organic Horizon: Learn about organic food and farming in the US from this virtual farmer.
  7. Blog for Rural America: Read this blog to learn about what American farmers are facing today.
  8. Mulch: Hear commentary on agriculture, policy, and food safety on this blog.
Posted on September 11, 2008 in Green Living, Green Shopping by Site AdministratorNo Comments »

Whether you’re into the latest in green, earth-friendly fashions or want to deck out your home in a sustainable manner, you can find loads of inspiration and shopping ideas on the internet. These blogs keep up with what’s going on in green design from a variety of perspectives, and with so many to choose from, you’re bound to find something that sparks your interest.

General

These sites are great places to look for news and information on green design in everything from a pair of pants to a new car.

  1. Fabulously Green: Designer and editor Stephanie Zhong runs this blog which provides links and photos to stylish (and green) fashion and interior design ideas.
  2. TreeHugger: This environmentally conscious blog can be a great place to find information on almost any green issue, but they regularly post articles on both green fashion and design to help you look stylishly in harmony with the earth.
  3. Victoria Everman: This blogger is a public speaker, writer and more, and shares her suggestions for green home and fashion design on her site.
  4. Green Girls Global/Green Guys Global: Learn how to be a greener shopper, check out your own closet, and develop your own eco-conscious style on these two gender specific blogs.
  5. Style Will Save Us: This funky and fun online magazine provides tons of features on green clothing, home design, beauty products and more.
  6. EcoStreet: Keep up with new happenings in fashion, design, energy, recycling and much more on this blog covering a wide spectrum of green issues.
  7. Ecobites: This blog posts loads of articles that cover topics like buying greener footwear, watching out for led in lipsticks and making your home less toxic.
  8. GreenStyle Magazine: With articles on everything from environmentally friendly jeans to choosing the most energy efficient scooter, this blog is sure to provide something that sparks your style interest.
  9. Low Impact Living: Check out this blog for some tips and advice on changing your lifestyle, from the way you dress to the kind of food you eat.
  10. ecosalon: This blog is a great place to find articles about up and coming or established green designers, both in the fashion world and in home decor.
  11. Line Dry It: If you wear clothes, you hopefully wash them on occasion. This blog focuses on saving energy by line drying clothes rather than tossing them in the dryer.
  12. Crafting a Green World: Find out about a number of organic fabrics on this blog that you can use to make clothes or decorate with as well as ideas for other crafts.
  13. Haute Nature: This wonderful blog provides readers with green ideas for design, living, fashion, furniture, building and much more.

Vintage and Used

Check out these blogs for advice an inspiration on making old things new again.

  1. DC Goodwill Fashion Blog: Get some tips on how you can create fashion forward outfits from vintage stores as well as some other miscellaneous fashion advice in this blog.
  2. Righteous (re)Style: Here you’ll find tons of information and some really cool links to fashion and design that comes from recycled, repurposed and second hand sources.
  3. Vintage Fashion Guild: If you love vintage fashion, check out this blog which provides links and photos of cool and still stylish clothing that can help your wallet and the earth.
  4. Zuburbia: Get some ideas on being stylish while staying budget and environmentally conscious on this vintage clothing blog.
  5. EverydayTrash: Want to make your trash into something better? Give this blog a read for fashionable ways you can reuse things you already have.

Organic and Sustainable Clothing

These blogs concentrate on providing news and suggestions for the best in organic and earth-friendly clothing.

  1. Eco-Chick: The author of this blog, Starre Varta, also has a book published on being fabulously green and shares her tips and suggestions for young women who want to look good while staying green in this blog.
  2. Green Cotton: Here you can read about ways that organic cotton is being used in everything, from coats to underwear and get a better idea of the process of what truly makes green cotton.
  3. Fashion, evolved.: Give this blog a read to learn about organic clothing companies, get insights into the fashion industry and even get weekly recaps of Project Runway.
  4. Organic Clothing Blog: If you are curious about organic clothing and want to know more about what goes into manufacturing it, check out this blog, which has a plethora of information on the topic.
  5. The Cleanest Line: Patagonia, an organic and sustainable clothing company, publishes this blog to keep customers and employees updated on their line and green lifestyles.
  6. The Greenloop: Stay in the loop on organic fashion with this blog, which features interviews with designers and business owners, news and shopping tips.
  7. Eco Fabulous: Find new places to shop, get ideas on reusing what you already own and loads of other suggestions on greening your wardrobe in this fashion-conscious blog.
  8. Zoica Matei: Keep up with what’s going on in the fashion world from a green perspective in this Atlanta-based blog.
  9. Smarter Fashion Blog: Here you can learn about companies that have decided to go green, find some cute green fashions and even learn to keep all those pesky clothes catalogs from coming to your inbox.
  10. Hippyshopper: Get pointed in the direction of hundreds of eco-friendly and stylish items on this green shopping blog.
  11. Cebra Ethical Chic: You can use this blog as a guide to finding fair trade and ecological conscious items, especially cool accessories to jazz up your wardrobe.
  12. Lucky for Baby: If you wear organic clothing, why shouldn’t your baby too? This blog can get you pointed in the right direction.
  13. Pier 32: This company sells its own t-shirts, but this blog covers a wide range of organic and green clothing lines to help you make educated shopping decisions.
  14. MissMalaprop: While this indie fashion blog doesn’t focus entirely on green products, it does provide regular postings on eco-friendly clothes and bags that can take you from winter to summer and even back to school.
  15. Jolly Green Girl: Learn how to use reusable bags, find eco-friendly fashion designers and more on this green blog.

Interior Design and Architecture

Get some ideas on jazzing up your home without hurting the environment in these blogs.

  1. Green Roof Design: Roofs are spaces that often go to waste. This blog can show you how to turn yours into a lovely and potentially productive garden.
  2. Small Space Living: Living in a small space can use a lot less resources but can sometimes be cramped. This blog gives you some ideas and suggestions on making the most of the space you have.
  3. re-nest: This blog illustrates a wide range of green design projects from stairways to entire green homes.
  4. Green Your Decor: Use this blog as a starting point to finding products that not only help the environment (or at least don’t hurt it) while making your home look fabulous.
  5. Green Garden Design: Don’t just make the interior of you home green, keep your landscaping pretty and earth friendly as well.
  6. Inhabitat: This popular blog is a great place to read about new and exciting products and ideas for your home, inside and out.
  7. Path Design: Find furniture, fabrics and information on great products that can help you create a warm home while still staying true to your inner greenie.
  8. Sustainable Design Update: If architectural and industrial design is more your taste, check out this blog for the latest news on green innovations in technology, building and design.
  9. GreenFab: Find out what’s going on in the world of sustainable architecture in the articles and photos provided through this interesting blog.
  10. Colors of Swallowtail: Here you’ll find some neat and environmentally friendly ideas for decorating your home and purchasing furniture.
  11. Sustainable Style Foundation: Keep your style sustainable with postings that can help you find earth-friendly and sleek furniture, home supplies and much more.
  12. Holistic Interior Design: Keep the interior of your home holistic and serene with some suggestions and advice from this design blog.
  13. EcoKind Design: This designer focuses on making her customer’s homes more earth friendly, even if it’s just one step at a time. Check out her blog for more stories, photos and suggestions.
  14. Greenwix: Peruse the design and style section of this blog to get ideas on decorating your home with a green twist.
  15. Green Design Girl: Mariela Campo is a designer who works for HGTV and uses her blog to highlight some great and green home products.
  16. UrthFriendly: Whether you’re looking to get safer paints, or furnish your bedroom, this blog can give you some informative articles on various aspects of green home design.
  17. Green by Design: With tons of posts on both green architecture and interior design, this blog is sure to have something that strikes your fancy.