Whole Living Today – Green Blog

Green Links is a regular feature of Whole Living Today’s Green Blog. Every Thursday organizations and sites that promote such issues as green living, fair trade, sustainable agriculture, wildlife and nature preservation, and more efficient use of resources and energy will be featured. Take some time to visit these sites, catch up on current issues and maybe donate to a worthwhile cause.

• OnEarth, the award-winning environmental magazine, explores politics, nature, wildlife, culture, science, health, the challenges that confront our planet, and the solutions that promise to heal and protect it. The site includes many online articles as well as a blog.
• Off-Grid Living. This website isn’t just about owning property that happens to not be connected to the big power company’s grid. It is about living closer to the land; Being responsible for the culture, values and environment we leave behind to our children; knowing that life was meant to be enjoyed, rather than working in a tiny cubicle to earn enough to accumulate stuff we didn’t need in the first place.
• The Daily Green. An extensive website covering environmental issues and global warming. Stay up-to-date with their news reports, find green cooking recipes, or check out the green tips section. The Daily Green also features several blogs.

Better World Books

“The online bookstore with a soul”

“Better World Books collects and sells books online to fund literacy initiatives worldwide. With more than two million new and used titles in stock, we’re a self-sustaining, triple-bottom-line company that creates social, economic and environmental value for all our stakeholders.”

“We’re breaking new ground in online bookselling. We believe that education and access to books are basic human rights. That’s why books sold on BetterWorld.com help fund high-impact literacy projects in the United States and around the world.

All books are available with free shipping to any location within the United States (or $3.97 worldwide). And in case you’re concerned about your eco-footprint, every order is shipped carbon neutral with offsets from Carbonfund.org.

Here’s the best part: In addition to selling new titles, Better World Books supports book drives and collects used books and textbooks through a network of over 1,600 college campuses and partnerships with nearly 1,000 libraries nationwide. So far, the company has converted more than 11 million donated books into $4.5 million in funding for literacy and education. In the process, we’ve also diverted more than 6,000 tons of books from landfills.

Because we believe that most every book has lasting value and the potential to help change the world, we see our job as helping to find new homes for unwanted books. Thus far, we’ve donated nearly one million books to partner programs around the world. Our four primary literacy partners are Books for Africa, Room to Read, Worldfund, the National Center for Family Literacy, and Invisible Children. Good company, no doubt.

Every book purchased from Better World Books contributes to individual literacy throughout the world and the promise of a better life. Clearly, we can’t do this work without our customers. That’s why we’re so passionate about trying to offer the best price, selection, customer service, and overall shopping experience.”

At Better World Books you can also sell or donate your unwanted books through their Buyback Program. If you wish to donate 3 or more books, they will pay the shipping. For each book they purchase, they make a donation to one of five primary literacy partners. They even let you choose which of the partners you want your buyback to benefit. Their five primary literacy partners are Invisible Children, Books for Africa, Room to Read, Worldfund, and the National Center for Family Literacy.

I have recently come across an online dating website that is focused on matching like minded singles.

GreenSingles.com offers personal ads for progressive singles in the environmental, vegetarian, and animal rights community and other green singles who love the outdoors, holistic living, personal growth and spirituality – a place to meet and network for friendship, dating, romance and the exchange of information and ideas. 

In operation since 1985, GreenSingles is a vegetarian owned and operated community of singles! Come in and check us out. It’s free to search through our member profiles, get to know who we are, what we do, and how we operate. If you like what you see, accept our invitation to place a free listing or upgrade to a full or credit membership. 

Meet other socially-conscious & progressive singles
who share your values about the earth,
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• 1000’s of personal ads for friendship, dating & romance
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• Free picture scanning & posting for 3 photos
• Anonymous email messaging system
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• Listings in US, Canada & around the world
• Free listings or Full memberships for just pennies per day
• GreenMarket listings for your business connections
• Links page for green resources
• 5% of profits to green organizations
• Since 1985 – hundreds of successful connections

Visit our web site & join today.
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www.GreenSingles.com

Co-op America’s Green Business of the Year Award identifies businesses that are committed to social and environmental responsibility. Each year one business is selected by the public as the Green Business of the Year. This year’s winner is Mountain Rose Herbs. Since 1987 Mountain Rose Herbs has consistently delivered exceptional quality certified organic products with a strict emphasis on sustainable agriculture.

Mountain Rose Herbs is genuinely committed to providing you exceptional quality bulk organic herbs, spices, botanicals, and an extensive line of superior herbal products. Choose from a selection of hundreds!

Enjoy the world’s finest bulk loose-leaf tea, blended right here at Mountain Rose Herbs. The recipe? Only fresh, colorful, organic, aromatic materials. Also offered is a large selection of organic and fair trade green, black, red and white teas.

Mountain Rose Herbs also offers some of the world’s most exquisite essential oils and aromatherapy products as well as all of the natural ingredients necessary for fine cosmetic creations.

Green Links is a regular feature of Whole Living Today’s Green Blog. Every Thursday organizations and sites that promote such issues as green living, fair trade, sustainable agriculture, wildlife and nature preservation, and more efficient use of resources and energy will be featured. Take some time to visit these sites, catch up on current issues and maybe donate to a worthwhile cause.

• Co-op America is a not-for-profit membership organization founded in 1982. Their mission is to harness economic power-the strength of consumers, investors, businesses, and the marketplace-to create a socially just and environmentally sustainable society. They work for a world where all people have enough, where all communities are healthy and safe, and where the bounty of the Earth is preserved for all the generations to come. Co-op America has an extensive website including the National Green Pages.
• Greenpeace International. Greenpeace is an independent global campaigning organization that acts to change attitudes and behaviour, to protect and conserve the environment and to promote peace by: Catalysing an energy revolution to address the number one threat facing our planet: climate change. Defending our oceans by challenging wasteful and destructive fishing, and creating a global network of marine reserves. Protecting the world’s ancient forests and the animals, plants and people that depend on them. Working for disarmament and peace by tackling the causes of conflict and calling for the elimination of all nuclear weapons. Creating a toxic free future with safer alternatives to hazardous chemicals in today’s products and manufacturing. Campaigning for sustainable agriculture by rejecting genetically engineered organisms, protecting biodiversity and encouraging socially responsible farming.
• World Wildlife Fund. WWF’s mission is the conservation of nature. Using the best available scientific knowledge and advancing that knowledge where we can, we work to preserve the diversity and abundance of life on Earth and the health of ecological systems by
  • protecting natural areas and wild populations of plants and animals, including endangered species;
  • promoting sustainable approaches to the use of renewable natural resources; and
  • promoting more efficient use of resources and energy and the maximum reduction of pollution.