Cleaning Green

Cleaning Green is the perfect name of a site that provides recipes to make your own natural household cleaners for the kitchen, bathroom and laundry room. There is also a section with recipes for floor cleaners and advice about decluttering the green house.

Print What You Like

Print What You Like is a new, simple (and free) web tool that lets users control exactly what part of an article you want to print by picking and choosing the parts you want to print and editing out the bits you don't want (such as photos, ads, logos, etc.) It's easy peasy!

It's also very green since you won't be wasting paper by printing parts of articles you don't want and don't need.

I love it!

Crafting a Green World

Do you enjoy crafting? If you do and you also like being frugal and green by recycling items, the blog, Crafting a Green World, combines all these elements and "features do-it-yourself projects that incorporate reused, recycled, and natural materials."

The site provides plenty of craft projects with tutorials.

The Succulent Wife's Favorite Things

The Succulent Wife's Favorite Things is a fun blog about interesting new products, and cool lifestyle ideas. "The Succulent Wife" also posts about green issues, various charities, and useful travel tips and recommendations.

Green England - Online directory of all things green!

Green England is an online directory of green products, services and green days out and holidays. The site also provides a list of Green England Tips on how to live a more ethical and eco-friendly life.

The [Accidental] EcoManiac

The [Accidental] EcoManiac is Miranda Newsom, a freelance journalist who writes about the eco lifestyle and how to be a conscientious consumer.

Miranda also writes The [Accidental] EcoManiac Blog.

Lighter Footstep: Sustainable Living

Lighter Footstep is a blog dedicated to sustainable living, with lots of practical advice and information about how to live a green life.

There is a Lighter Footstep Forum too.

Simply Green - a blog with 'green and crafty ideas'

Simply Green is the name of a fun and inspirational blog created by Danny Seo, Editor-at-Large of Country Home magazine.

Danny's Simply Green blog offers lots of "Green and crafty ideas for everyday living."

Veg Box Recipes

Veg Box Recipes is a fantastic site which offers a lot more than just recipes!

Veg Box Recipes, created by Clare Jaques, is a "website for people who want recipes that work with veg boxes, farm shops, farmers' markets and allotments."

In addition to the recipes, the site offers a friendly forum and there is a Veg Box Recipes Blog too.

You can also request a copy of a Free Guide to Seasonal Food via the site, and subscribe to a free newsletter.

Ideal Bite: Bite-sized ideas for light green living

Ideal Bite is a fun and useful site for anyone interested in a green lifestyle:

"Ideal Bite offers bite-sized ideas for light green living."

You can sign up for a free daily tip via email and there is a tip library where you can find all the previous tips. There is also an Ideal Bite Blog.

The site is American but they are planning to create international versions of the tips.

The Allotment Lady blog

I've just discovered a lovely blog called Allotment Lady, where you can "...look through ‘windows’ of a simple, but very happy life."

The blog is a delight to read and there are lots and lots of wonderful photos too. I never knew that chickens could be such fun characters until I read her blog! Go have a look and see what I mean.

Urban self sufficiency

Self sufficient 'ish' - "The urban guide to almost self sufficiency."

The site offers lots of articles with useful and practical information about self sufficiency.

The site also offers organic gardening advice and recipes plus there is a forum with additional advice and information about self sufficiency.

The Cottage Smallholder: "Stumbling self sufficiency in a small space" - a blog

If you think about changing your life and living a self sufficient life style, you will enjoy this blog about life in a 16th century cottage in an English village:

The Cottage Smallholder is a charming blog about a "journey towards self sufficiency and beyond."

BigGreePurse: Save Time, Shift Money, Make a Difference

BigGreenPurse is a site that suggests ways for American women to shop 'green'. The links on the site are for American products of course, but the idea to empower women by suggesting they spend their money on green products, is certainly something for everyone - everywhere - to aspire to.

The founder of the Big Green Purse site, Diane MacEachern, "is passionate about empowering women to use their marketplace clout to protect the environment."

Diane also has a blog, Diane's Big Green Purse, with the tagline, "Making our money matter for a greener, cleaner, safer world."

When I explored the BigGreenPurse site, I discovered they also have a link to a sister site called The World Women Want which "helps women, their children and their families live healthier, safer, more rewarding lives." It's a very good site too - although it also links to just American sites.

(BigGreenPurse link via an article in The Christian Science Monitor)

GuideMeGreen: a useful resource

Promoting Green Companies & Brands: GuideMeGreen

The site is, "... a growing resource for the ethically and environmentally friendly conscious shopper who cares about where they work, what they eat and what they buy!"

GuideMeGreen actually offers three useful directories: The Green Directory, The Ethical Directory, and The Jobs Directory.

How "The Yellow House" became a 'green' eco-house

The Yellow House is about how George Marshall and his wife, Annie, set about turning a house into an eco-house:

"This is the story of how we took a very ordinary English terrace 1930s house and set out on a limited budget to turn it into our dream eco-house: comfortable, clean, healthy, beautiful and a model for low impact living."

The site is set up so you can easily explore the house and the eco-features room by room and there are also tips and ideas provided that anyone can try.

A blog about "One family's search for the good life"

Do you fancy going back to basics and living life in a more simple way? Do you think about changing your ways and becoming more thrifty and caring for the environment by living a 'green' lifestyle? If you do, then you will enjoy reading the blog called bean-sprouts by Melanie Rimmer. Her interesting blog is very informative but also a lot of fun and chatty. Take a look and I think you will agree.

Information about organic issues

whyorganic is an informative website from the The Soil Association. The site offers a lot of useful information including, nutritional advice , ten reasons to buy organic food, an organic directory, and an organic farmer's blog.

A guide to "green" cars

Green-Car-Guide.com offers practical car buying advice - particularly green cars - for the UK.
The site "is designed to celebrate manufacturers developing more environmentally-friendly cars and to inform car buyers about the best green choices."

Eco-Chick: a 'green' blog written by women

Eco-Chick is a fun and informative blog written by a group of women about green issues.
This explanation is from their first post (October 2005):

Eco-chick is design and style’s eco-home on the web. We are dedicated to finding the stuff that makes life fun and has a minimum impact on our mother Earth. While we have a woman’s perspective, all are welcome to contribute.