Green Living

Web Sites

• Environmental Working Group: Bottled Water Quality
  Not only does bottled water use up a lot of resources in packaging and transportation, it also doesn't deliver pure water. The EWG recommends using filtered tap water instead.
• The Green Guide
  This website by the National Geographic Society offers Buying guides and a section on Homes.
• Green Home Guide
  GreenHomeGuide, from the U.S. Green Building Council, "believes we can improve the environment and make our homes safe, comfortable and rejuvenating at the same time. By choosing green alternatives to conventional building, cleaning, pest control and landscaping, we discover that we can have more, not less."
• Green Maven
  Search the green web with this Google Custon Search engine.
• Little House in the Suburbs
  I ran across this blog while reading the Mother Earth News newsletter. Lots of advice with a dose of humor about living sustainably in the suburbs.
• Mother Earth News
  "The Original Guide to Living Wisely" offers Do It Yourself, Renewable energy, Green Homes, green transportation, sustainable farming, real food and more. Also see Grit Magazine for rural folks.
• Natural Home Magazine
  Homes, Gardens, Remodeling and Redecorating in a natural way.
• Nature Conservancy: Carbon Footprint Calculator
  Their carbon footprint calculator estimates how many tons of carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases your choices create each year.
• New Colonist
  "for the citizen of the new century"
  An online publication and meeting place for colonizers of "our once-neglected cities, which are being remade into rich and vibrant communities by old residents and new who have rediscovered the possibilities offered by urban neighborhoods." Look here for information on alternative methods of transportation.
• Project Laundry List
  Project Laundry List advocates the air-drying of laundry, and works to make it acceptable and desirable as a simple and effective way to save energy. Their principles include: "All citizens nation-wide should have the legal right to hang out their laundry", and "Frugality, or thrift, needs to be a universally practiced virtue".
• Public Transportation
  "This website is designed to better inform the public about the benefits and importance of public transportation for all Americans — even if they never board a train or a bus." One of the most important elements of green living is green transportation.

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Pittsburgh Region

• BuyLocalPA.org
  Buy your food locally and unprocessed to avoid food additives and transportation costs.
• CommuteInfo.org
  Don't drive to work alone! CommuteInfo can help you form a carpool.
• East End Food Co-Op
  For a real green living experience, join the East End Food Co-Op!
• Friends of the Pittsburgh Urban Forest
  Instead of turning on the air conditioner in the summer, plant a shade tree.
• The Green Building Alliance
  Works to foster "green" building in the Pittsburgh metropolitan area
• Sustainable Pittsburgh
  Sustainable Pittsburgh, a non-partisan, civic forum, advocates the integration of economic growth, environmental health, and social equity as the foundation for high quality of life and long-term prosperity of southwestern Pennsylvania.

Pennsylvania

• Grid
  The online version of a Philadelphia sustainability magazine.