by Marina Hanes

Green Moms

Do you try to be an eco-conscious mom? Are you often looking for alternatives to the traditional home cleaners, because you worry about how the chemicals affect your children? A mom who knows what it’s like to juggle your personal life with raising children is the creator and writer of Green & Clean Mom. This site includes a forum where eco-friendly moms can discuss their challenges and solutions to living a greener lifestyle. There are also opportunities to win contests and prizes from giveaways. The blog is updated regularly with articles examining eco-driving, chemical free products, rain barrels, etc.

Another great green mom site is Organic Green Mommy. Lauren Davison, the OGM herself, lives, eats, and breathes the healthy-green lifestyle for herself and her family. Her site is full of great videos, articles, tips and forums for moms concerned with these issues.

Reduce Your Carbon Dioxide

Going carbon neutral may sound like an impossible goal to accomplish, but Neutral Existence is dedicated to showing readers how easy and inexpensive it is to reduce your carbon footprint. Forum topics like “Are you willing to give up meat?” can broaden your views on vegetarian and vegan diets and how they relate to your carbon footprint. There is also a section called Resources, which provides helpful tips on how you can reduce your carbon dioxide emissions while saving yourself money. For example, have you ever thought of putting a water tank insulation jacket on your water heater or using a radiant barrier to cool your home?

Search for Good

Greensearch is perfect if you are a self-motivated researcher, because all of the money generated from advertising is donated to a non-profit environmental organization. The current charity that they are donating to is noted on their front page. This site discusses eco-friendly issues when it comes to business, design, fashion, life and science. Articles examine new technology such as soil sensors for farmers and Apple’s new MacBook. There is also a listing of eco-friendly sites that Greensearch highly recommends.

A Sassier Side of Green

When it comes to testing out the latest eco-friendly makeup and announcing upcoming green events, EcoStilleto is in the know. This site shows how living a sustainable life can improve your beauty, fashion sense and diet. Also, with “The Big List of Things That Suck,” you will be able to inform your girlfriends about the potentially harmful effects of food coloring, anti-bacterials, high fructose corn syrup, etc. Sign up for the EcoStiletto Newsletter and receive weekly updates on the most green and fabulous things in life.

More Green Sites

A great place to look over dozens of green web sites is Green Site Listings. This is a handy collection of sites with user-generated rating system and screen shots of each site.