Resources
For Kids
- Green Guide for Kids
The Green Guide for Kids is an online environmental resource for kids to find ideas, information, and inspiration to go green.
- National Geographic
National Geographic is a Parent’s Choice recommended site, it’s full of beautiful videos, pictures, stories and activities. Visit people, places and animals all around the world. Includes a green shopping site for kids too!
- Scholastic Green
Scholastic Green is an amazing site for kids, teachers, parents, everybody! Full of fun and interesting things to look at, games, and learning.
- The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s Environmental Kids Club
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s Environmental Kids Club will help you explore your environment and learn how to protect it. It’s an excellent animated site with games, pictures, and stories.
Green Entertainment
- Green.tv
Green.tv features exciting stories about the environmental from all around the world. Green.tv’s kids’ channel shows films that make green issues make sense. Enjoy your journey!
- Planet Green
Planet Green is the first and only 24-hour eco-lifestyle television network with a robust online presence and community. TV shows, videos, guides, games, quizzes, celebrities, they got it all!
- Sierra Club
“Ideas for living well and doing good” from the Sierra Club. There is a gigantic array of resources offered here including one of my favorite publications, Sierra Magazine
Green Parenting
- Eco Childs Play
Eco Childs Play includes news, information, and opinions on natural green parenting to help your family live a more healthy, eco-friendly life.
- Green and Clean Mom
Green and Clean Mom says, “How being green can be sassy (smart and stylish), green (there are over 33 shades), sexy (confident and interesting) and fun!
- Nature Mom's Blog
30 Ways to Go Green with Your Family
Other Cool Stuff
- Carbonfund.org
Reduce What You Can, Offset What You Can’t™ at Carbonfund.org. They take your small donation and support renewable energy and reforestation projects that reduce carbon dioxide emissions.
- Freecycle Network
Changing the world one gift at a time, Freecycle Network™ is my absolutely favorite way of sharing our stuff. It’s a grassroots and entirely nonprofit movement of people who are giving (& getting) stuff for free in their own towns. It’s all about reu
- Growing Green Kids
Growing Green Kids is dedicated to uniting the school garden movement in San Francisco through advocacy and training for garden coordinators. Our member gardens share our common vision of school gardens in every school.
- Leonardo DiCaprio Foundation
The Leonardo DiCaprio Foundation is dedicated to “supporting environmental initiatives and fostering global awareness of the issues facing our planet.” It is an awesome resource center!
- The Eco Seekers
The EcoSeekers is my good friend Deanna Neil’s independent publishing house and eco-enterprise that connects kids and young adults with nature and environmentalism through original stories, products and community. Check out her book series, The Land of Cu
- The Story of Stuff
The Story of Stuff is an amazing 20-minute, fast-paced, fact-filled look at the underside of our production and consumption patterns. The Story of Stuff exposes the connections between a huge number of environmental and social issues, and calls us togethe
- TreeHelp
Want to learn more about trees? Visit TreeHelp.com to learn about the vital and nurturing force of trees in our lives, communities, and histories.
The Green Lifestyle
- Green Lifestyle
Green Lifestyle provides ethical and eco-friendly products and products with sustainable life cycles. Find everything from clothing and home accessories to baby products and games.
- Green Living
Green Living is “green for cool people.” A modern green lifestyle blog by a bunch of twisted dark green juice guzzling space monkies.
- Lazy Environmentalist
Lazy Environmentalist is a resource for people who want to easily and enjoyably green their lives. Featuring informative articles, videos, and specific green product recommendations intended to help really busy people figure out which green choices to ma
- The Green Lifestyle
The Green Lifestyle is a very readable and interesting blog reporting eco-friendly every day lifestyle choices.