sprig - A super-hip and fashionable resource for your green lifestyle, including food, fashion, beauty and home.
The Nature Conservancy Nature Preserve Map - A Google Maps mashup featuring nature preserves across the U.S.
EcoSeek - A search engine for green stuff.
Greener - An environmental search engine.
GuideMeGreen.com - A resource of green companies and brands for environmentally conscious shoppers.
Green Maven - A search engine and green directory powered by Google search.
Evolvist - A directory of eco-friendly & socially responsible business that will be released soon. They also have a blog and a Facebook app.
Holistic Local - A resource to find local conscious businesses, local events and courses, and articles & e-books, as well as a marketplace to buy and sell conscious products.
Sustainable Travel International - A sustainable travel guide that also offers carbon offsets for your travel.
Green Building Blocks - A green building product & service directory that also features information on green building techniques and ways to promote your green business.
Lime - Lime is a complete green living guide with online TV, radio, mobile, podcasts, shopping and more.
GoodSearch - A search engine that donates 50% of it’s proceeds to the charity of your choice (over 40,000 are currently participating).
Green Building Studio - Online tools for green builders, engineers, building products manufacturers and architects.
Yahoo! Green - Yahoo!’s green information site that includes a pledge to help reduce your environmental impact.
Link: Search Engines, Directories & Guides
Google and Intel Partner Up to Go Green
Google and Intel have partnered on an initiative to make computing power, both personal and professional, more eco-friendly, reports Reuters.
The two companies have created the Climate Savers Computing Initiatives and signed on many of the biggest names in hardware and software to support the effort. The program seeks to introduce personal computers and server systems that draw less energy and produce less harmful greenhouse gas emissions. The effort seeks to find power supplies that operate at a minimum 90 percent efficiency.
While the upfront costs for more power efficient systems would be slightly higher, they would pay for themselves in lower amounts of wasted electricity. In the case of servers, it would also result in less power needed to air-conditioning systems to keep the machines cool.
The program not only has the backing of those that make the hardware but also is working with the EPA and World Wildlife Fund, the latter of which offers rebate programs for buying more efficient products.
From: MarketingVox
