NETWORK-GREEN Links
A Comprehensive List of HIGH QUALITY GREEN / ECO-FRIENDLY RESOURCES, PRODUCTS, SERVICES and ORGANIZATIONS.
♥ This page is continuously being updated.
Green Grand Rapids
- Frederik Meijer Gardens and Sculpture Park -Botanical gardens and sculpture park with a mission to promote the enjoyment, understanding, and appreciation of gardens, sculpture, the natural environment, and the arts.
- Grand Rapids Art Museum -The first newly built green museum in the world.
- Green Generation -Consumers Energy renewable energy program
- Local First -Encourages the development of a vibrant, sustainable West Michigan economy by promoting local business ownership, social equity, and environmental kinship through education, support and collaboration.
- Rain Gardens of West Michigan -Learn how to create a rain garden, volunteer to help with a project or visit the many demonstration rain gardens in Grand Rapids and surrounding areas.
- The Humane Society of Kent County -Please consider adoption before purchasing pets through breeders and pet stores. HSKC is a private, nonprofit organization dedicated to the protection and care of all animals.
- Waste not -City of Grand Rapids recycling program.
- West Michigan Coop -The region’s first-ever online farmers market. Annual user fee of $35.
- West Michigan Environmental Council -Non-profit environmental advocacy and education organization committed to citizen empowerment. West Michigan’s leading voice for environmental protection since 1968.
Green Living Resources
- Greenthinkers -Web site that was created as a place to discuss and present ideas on how to live a more green life.
- LIME -Healthy living with a twist.
- New American Dream -Helps Americans consume responsibly to protect the environment, enhance quality of life, and promote social justice.
- TreeHugger -Blog dedicated to the green lifestyle. News, reviews, and links.
- WorldChanging -Tools, Models and Ideas for Building a Bright Green Future.
Green Household Products
- Abundant Earth -Offers a wide variety of environmentally sensitive products and services for people who want to make a difference in the world.
- EcoChoices -Create a home that is beautiful, natural and a safe environment for you and your family’s enjoyment.
- Eco-Products -Supplier of environmentally friendly home, office and building products.
- ECO Solution -Resource for cutting edge green building information, products and services.
- Friends of Water -Provides householders with information, inspiration and water products to celebrate, clean and save water.
- Sunsoglobal -Renewable energy products. Huge selection of solar products for home and garden.
- Urban Woods -Furniture collection is made exclusively of reclaimed woods, organic cottons, and water-based finishes.
- VitraStone -Eco-friendly sinks and surfaces made from 70% - 85% recycled products such as recycled glass and fly ash blended with a proprietary blend of ceramic cement.
Green Gardening
Green Clothing
- Clothing Matters -Eco-Fashion - Tangible threads to connect and strengthen sustainable community development. 141 Diamond SE, Grand Rapids
- Goodwill: online auction -First internet auction site operated by a nonprofit organization.
- howies® -Active clothing company that believes in making higher quality, lower impact products for our sports and day-to-day lives.
- Loomstate -100% organic cotton apparel.
- muse -A nice collection of eco-friendly and organic couture. 924 Cherry Street, Ste C, Grand Rapids
- ONNO -T-Shirts made from bamboo, hemp and organic cotton.
Organic Food & Cooking
Green Health & Beauty
- Dew Organics -The world’s first FULLY Certified Organic product line. Offering a full line of cosmetics, skin care, and hair care products.
Green Pet Products
- Green Pet inc - full line of premium litter and bedding products — all highly absorbent and extremely effective in controlling odors. Manufactured from renewable, biodegradable resources. Products are safe for all small animals, birds and reptiles.
- Newman’s Own Organic Premium Pet Food -Pet foods made in the US and certified organic by Oregon Tilth, a USDA accredited certifying agency.
Green Art
- Boris Bally -Recycles street signs into furnishings, jewelry, wall pieces and flatware.
- D-Licious -Recycles beer and soda cans into jewelry.
- Tripp Gregson -Recycles street signs into tables, cupboards, briefcases, purses and magnets.
- Jerry Kott -Recycles wine bottles into decorative vases, hanging and table lamps.
- Holly Anne Mitchell -Recycles newspaper, sweetener packets and losing lottery tickets into jewelry.
Green Gifts
- Eco-Artware -One-stop gift shop for all things beautiful, well-made and environmentally friendly.
- Element -Organic, Eco-friendly, and Socially Conscious Products for Baby, Health, and Home.
- Green Glass Company -Crafts unconventional and creative glassware products from reclaimed wine and beer bottles.
- Love Eco -Well-designed and high quality eco-alternatives for you, your home and your family.
- Uncommon Goods: recycled collection -Gifts made of sustainable, reclaimed, reused materials.
Green Reading
Green Travel
- H.E.L.P. Travel -Non-profit association whose main goal is to create various journey-missions aiming to bring solidarity and aid to West African populations, mainly in Senegal and the proximity.
Nature & Conservation
- Wild and Happy -Green blog about the environment and wildlife and all the more about personal experiences while dealing with these issues.
Recycling Resources
Take Action
- Do Something -A Community where young people learn, listen, speak, vote, volunteer, ask, and take action to make the world a better place.
- Sierra Club -Inspired by nature, the Sierra Club members work together to protect our communities and the planet. The Club is America’s oldest, largest and most influential grassroots environmental organization.
- The Nature Conservancy -Mission: To preserve the plants, animals and natural communities that represent the diversity of life on Earth by protecting the lands and waters they need to survive.
Donate
- Animal Welfare Institute -Non-profit charitable organization founded in 1951 to reduce the sum total of pain and fear inflicted on animals by humans.
- Green Tags USA -Purchase renewable energy certificates to support the development of: Renewable energy on our power grids, solar power systems for schools and public buildings, wind power systems for farms, ranches and communities, watershed restoration to improve water quality and native fish habitat.
- Heifer International -Give the gift of animals to educate and end hunger in developing communities around the world. Mission: to work with communities around the world to end hunger and poverty and care for the earth.
- The Conservation Fund -The nation’s foremost environmental nonprofit dedicated to protecting America’s most important landscapes and waterways for future generations.
- Wildlife Conservation Society -Saves wildlife and wild lands through careful science, international conservation, education, and the management of the world’s largest system of urban wildlife parks, led by the flagship Bronx Zoo.
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on Jul 3rd, 08 at 4:27 pm
Hi Network Green.
Thought you might be interested in my Dark Optimism blog.
All the best,
Shaun
on Aug 25th, 08 at 8:15 pm
Unique interesting green gifts from around the world for anniversaries, birthdays, and all special occasions. Help the environment by giving green.
on Aug 27th, 08 at 8:57 am
Thought you might want to add a like to Shop Near http://www.shopnear.net - helps folks buy green close to home and network with those interested in being green and buying local.
on Sep 29th, 08 at 10:46 am
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on Oct 23rd, 08 at 6:36 pm
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on Oct 24th, 08 at 7:39 pm
Thought I would let you know about a new website of an eco-friendly boutique in the bay area of California. http://www.embodies.com. Enjoy!
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on Nov 7th, 08 at 10:53 am
I really enjoy reading the Network Green blog, and thought you might enjoy the Green Living Channel at BrightHub: http://www.brighthub.com/environment/green-living.aspx. You’ll find tips, articles and advice meant for real people to make a real difference in their lives and the environment! Thanks!
on May 30th, 09 at 9:09 pm
Hi Network Green. Nice site.
Our site is all about helping people in Michigan make food choices that keep as much of their money as possible right here in our state. Our main priority is supporting Michigan food producers, and doing what we can to keep our food system viable. While many sites list Michigan food companies, we make it a point to ask each of them to list the percentage of their ingredients they source from Michigan farms. While we support food producers of all kinds, we recognize the importance of supporting our farmers, and particularly the ones who do it right. This often means supporting smaller farms. We are aligned with MOFFA, FSEP and Edible WOW Magazine. Please, check us out, and spread the word. We’re looking to be the ultimate destination for any Michigander who eats!
on Jun 30th, 09 at 5:39 pm
Atlas Networks is a Seattle based company focused on providing a new generation of ultra-low-power servers. Servers account for a significant portion of our national energy consumption - and in most cases they are far, far more powerful than required for their purpose.
We also do recycled servers, repurposing older, used servers that would otherwise end up in landfills as e-waste.
on Oct 1st, 09 at 4:04 pm
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