GreenYour.com: Your Guide to Green Anything
by Collin Dunn, Corvallis, OR, USA on 04.14.08
Offering the ability to fill in the blank and answer the question "What do you want to green in your life?", GreenYour.com is open for business with today's beta launch. Important facts, actionable tips, and cutting-edge products combine to create what the site hopes to be: “Your Guide to Green Anything” -- whether you want to green your lighting and your heating, or your dating and your voting, they'll aim to have you covered.
With 29 categories in more than 100 subject areas with more than 500 green tips adding up to more than 2,000 pages of facts, tips, and products, they look to be off to a solid start. But it's not just another "green living" site. Emphasizing the power of online community development, GreenYour is built on an open-source content development platform, allowing site moderators to give power-users the ability to create new content around their particular areas of expertise and providing GreenYour the opportunity to feature timely recommendations from leading environmental experts and organizations.
Sound good? GreenYour is currently inviting individuals and organizations with environmental backgrounds to contribute their expertise; GreenYour encourage anyone passionate about green living to share tips or products with them. To get a taste of what GreenYour will be providing, check out their blog, or dive right in to the facts section, take green action using the tips section or use their listings to find products with a greener footprint. Better yet, just fill in the blank at the top of the page, and get info right away on whatever you want to green; a few of the searches I tried -- for eating and shoes -- produced pretty solid results.
Good luck, team GreenYour! ::GreenYour.com
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Green Your [whatever] sounds like a great resource for the young and old treehuggers to check out. I'm all over it just as soon as I finish reading the 20,000 posts here.
Seriously, the super green folk need to remember that the basics still need to be promoted. Today I talked with a woman who had just discovered on her quest for Earth Day knowledge, that running the water while brushing her teeth was bad.
yeah.
But the great thing is, she is really inspired to spread the green word about little things you can do so hopefully, she connects with and enlightens more water runners.
I couldn't find green your own nuclear power plant... so I wrote them an email suggesting they create a new section, because after all, if Entergy and Exelon want to claim they are clean and green and the solution to global warming, shouldn't they also institute recycling programs at their nuclear power plants? Print their "we're good neighbors" literature on recycled paper? I've yet to see a nuclear power Union worker or NRC employee handing out organic cotton t-shirts at their public day events.
I'd love for you to share a link to this post on my blog (http://www.goodiesformom.com) under my post "Share Your Thoughts for a Greener World". We are having an Earth Day Celebration through 4/22 trying to help bring green mainstrain. This would be a great addition.
Lois