If you live in one of three major urban areas; Los Angeles, San Francisco, or New York, you can snag up a Greenopia guide that will make it a little easier to stay green in your area. Greenopia guides are a little like yellow pages for tree huggers with local listings for green retailers, service providers, and organizations. Organic restaurants and grocery stores, dry cleaners, organic fashion, organic pest control services, sustainable building suppliers, landscapers and interior designers and more are included in the guides. Basically these small green guides contain all you need to keep it green when you need consumer services.
The downside – well, they’re only in these major urban areas, which is a drag. Especially when you consider that many areas could benefit (think Portland, OR, Seattle, and so on).
The upside – Greenopia is coming to other cities, in fact you can search right now online for green business info about many other cities but because the guides for other cities are newer, there’s not much to see. Still it’s a step in the right direction.The Greenopia website also offers green news and articles which are good, a community area, and more, although I’d skip the “product ratings” which offer very little substantial info other than what they got from the product site and almost no review substance.
The other upside – if you’re looking for green businesses, green products or green directories this is not your only option.
- Green America, formerly Co-Op America, is the king of green guides online, and offers a huge shop and service site featuring all sorts of green goods and services through their National Green Pages. You can get a paper copy of this guide, but it’s unnecessary as the business listings online are just as extensive.
- EcoHuddle has extensive green product reviews contributed by staff and members of the community so ratings are mixed and based on honest user opinions not company PR.
- Organic Consumers Association has a big list of green businesses to browse – mainly focused on companies who carry organics although other green businesses are listed as well.
See many other places to find green goods and services including books, houses, and more.
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