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Eco Street site consists of a directory of green businesses
and websites, a news blog concentrating on eco-friendly and sustainable
living stories and an eco-friendly forum where an online community
of green-minded individuals discuss sustainability and other issues.
Headings include : Babies & Children, Careers & Recruitment, Eco-Friendly
Blogs, Eco-friendly House, Education & Courses, Fairtrade & Organic
Fashion, Organic & Local Food & Drink, Funerals ,Gardening & Farming,
Natural & Organic Health & Beauty, Responsible Travel & Holidays,
Sustainable Lifestyle, Energy Saving & Recycled Office Resources,
Ethical Personal Finance, Personals and Dating, Green Property &
Real Estate, Recycling Services, Responsible Transport, Volunteering
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on - almost any subject you can think of.... http://www.ecostreet.com/
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greenmuseum.org
- a new online museum of environmental art, advances creative efforts
to improve our relationship with the natural world. Their goal is
to inform, inspire and connect people through environmental art
and encourage the creation of new work that serves their communities
and ecosystems. The site has three main sections: Artist Section
presents images and documentation of artwork, writings and online
exhibitions. Community provides a full listing of Events, Opportunities,
and Links.... www.greenmuseum.org
A typical example
of an artist's work on this site are the impressive stone and earth
sculptures of New Zealand artist, Chris
Booth. They are feats of balancing, engineering and a widely
conceived sense of place. Stacked stone forms refer to their origins
in volcanos or river banks and are often gathered in consultation
with representatives of local indigenous people... http://greenmuseum.org/content/artist_index/artist_id-30__nosplit-z.html
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Centre
for Alternative Technology - Europe's foremost Eco-Centre
- an educational charity striving to achieve the best cooperation
between the natural, technological and human worlds. At their centre
in Wales, UK, they test, live with and display strategies and tools
for doing this. The website will take you on a tour round the centre
and show their work in solar heating, low energy building, wind
power generation, and list their publications and other attractions
(and how to get to their Welsh site) ..
http://www.cat.org.uk/
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Rocky
Mountain Institute - An
entrepreneurial, nonprofit organization created by Amory and Hunter
Lovins, that fosters the efficient and restorative use of resources
to create a more secure, prosperous, and life-sustaining world.
Site rich in information and constantly updated.
http://www.rmi.org/
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GREENPEACE
- A
rich source of green information of all kinds - statistics, technical
information, campaigns, links to other sites. What more needs to
be said.. http://www.greenpeace.org/
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Coalition of Green Artists, a group of professional artists
and philanthropists committed to environmentally-friendly approaches
to creativity, has launched a project to promote an innovative solution
to the need for art supplies and materials in schools and community
recreation centers and to teach the benefits of recycling to students
and artists...http://greenartists.tripod.com |
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| Dreamfish.org
is an open creative network of people who are committed to bring forth
a just, sustainable, healthy world. "We believe that sustainability
grows in an environment of creativity, multiculturalism, diversity,
health, compassion, and celebration. DreamStream is our collective
blog, an intercultural interdisciplinary space where registered users
of dreamfish.org have conversations about sustainability innovation.
Swim in the stream for inspiration, knowledge, news, videos and fun"...Site
that relies on voluntary contributions and whose aims deserve support....http://www.dreamfish.org/ |
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| GreenNet
is part of the only global computer network specifically designed
for environment, peace, human rights and development groups. It offers
email and its own special conferences, as well as the usual range
of dial-up Internet services... http://www.gn.apc.org/ |
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| Stuff
in the Air - sets out to explain modern meteorological processes
and techniques, scientific concepts as well as meteorology and weather
systems. An increasing number of pages include enlightening photographs
and physical science articles. It was created to some extent for the
use of students exploring career options, educators of such students
and other members of the public who may be looking for answers to
important questions like global warning. A site that is rich in useful
ecological information and hard to classify, but very well designed
and supported. ...
http://www.stuffintheair.com |
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SHOPPING
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The
Maho Bay Art Center, St. John, US Virgin Islands, creates
art from recycled products such as beer bottles, bed linens, and
lint from clothes dryers. Highly skilled artists create the art
made at our studios located at Maho Bay Camps on the hillsides of
the Caribbean shores. All art pieces for purchase are one-of-a-kind,
so color, shape and size will vary with each piece.
An example is illustrated opposte - Clay Saki Set This stoneware
is hand thrown on the potter’s wheel at Maho Bay Clay Works and
then imprinted with shells and coral from our beaches. As a final
touch, glass from waste bottles is used on the inside as a glaze.,,http://www.maho.org/
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Downbound.com
offers a wide assortment of products that promote environmental
sustainability. They have hundreds of organic hemp items including
clothing footwear bags and accessories. All of their products are
non-sweatshop and non-exploitive of animals. Their site also has
a large library of information on related topics. They also have
a very attractive affiliates program offering discounts for referrals..
An interesting
site especially for Vegan shoppers and anyone interested in alternatives
to synthetics, especially hemp products. A good range of ecological
topics in the library....http://www.downbound.com/
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Great Elephant Poo Poo Paper Company -Designers and manufacturers
of recycled, odorless paper products made from elephant poo. Journals,
note boxes and greeting cards and other unique gifts from poo paper.
The company is focused today on the production, innovation and marketing
of all sorts of fun products made from elephant poo! "We have
a fun and dynamic international team at our modest outfits in N. America,
Australia, Japan, and Europe where we spread the word and sell our
products as well as in Asia where we make all our fantastic products
using age-old paper making techniques, evolved locally over hundreds
of years. A portion of our profits from the sale of each product from
The Great Elephant Poo Poo Paper Company is directed to worthwhile
conservation and welfare projects...". Another site offering
ecologically produced paper products..... http://www.poopoopaper.com/index.html |
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Exotic Paper Company is the UK’s sole supplier of the complete
Ellie Poo and Ellie Eats range of 100% recycled papers. Together with
their own comprehensive selection of recycled inclusion papers, they
offer a varied, unique, ecological, ethical, biodegradable, acid free
and ‘green’ source of 100% recycled papers, stationery, greetings
cards and paper gifts made from Sri Lankan elephant dung which has
a warm beige colour... The Sri Lankan elephant has a very inefficient
digestive system whereby almost 45% of it’s food intake is passed
through as undigested matter... This site describes the process of
collecting the material, making the paper in their modern mill near
Hemel Hempstead..... Fascinating and well designed site with ideas
for eco gifts and paper to paint or print on... http://www.elliepoopaper.co.uk/ |
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| Tafetan
Art is a Colombian organisation promoting and selling traditional
crafts - "In our factory, we have elaborated contemporaneous
carpets with the most exclusive designs totally handmade, using natural
fibers with the aid of vertical looms. At the same time we have supported
the work of other artists and Colombian craftsmen. Our mission is
to commercially propel the Colombian art and crafts, helping to increase
the production of unique pieces of art which are done by hand, stimulating
the new generation to follow the path of our ancestors whom for decades
have been dedicated to transform natural elements utilizing traditional
techniques in order to obtain pieces of matchless beauty...."
A well designed and attractive site offering mouthwatering hand-made
goods from Colombia.....http://www.tafetan-art.com/index.htm |
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| ECOMALL
- "Earth's Largest Environmental Shopping Center". A site where
you can search for Green products and links to sites with information
about the environment. There is a good search facility by keywords,
or by categories. Not much about art, but lots of links of interest
to artists.... www.ecomall.com
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eco-artware.com
is dedicated to meeting the needs of everyone who is looking for gifts
that are beautiful, well made and environmentally friendly. On these
pages you will find designs by 25 (and counting) artists: hand-crafted
jewelry, personal, home and office accessories, business gifts and
custom awards. All are made from recycled, reused and natural materials....http://www.eco-artware.com/
Clear glass ornament filled with aluminum "tinsel"
shards from oxygen tanks left on Mt. Everest.>
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| Loewestamm
Company manufactures stylish accessories handcrafted from
natural wood. Adhering to own philosophy, Loewestamm offers conceptual
collections composed of wooden necklaces, wooden bracelets, wooden
bangles, wooden earrings. Each product presented by the Loewestamm
Company is hand-made and unique since there are no two identical pieces
of wood. Flashy site with nice things... http://www.woodenjewellery.com/ |
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| Pibiones
by Antonello - exclusive fashion accessories and luxury handbags
made with hand-woven eco-friendly fabrics. In the heart of Sardinia
in a region known as the Mejlogu; on top of an inactive volcano rises
Siligo a small village of 1000 inhabitants... It was in this vibrant
rural community that Antonello grew up. It was here that he started
to discover the wonders of the luxury hand-woven eco-friendly fabrics...
It was while living in constant contact with the traditional woven
articles (including luxury carpets, luxury tapestries, luxury furniture
mats and festival trappings for the horses and oxen), that Antonello
first developed his interest in luxury eco-friendly fabrics which
would become his passion..A site for the urban rich to satisfy
their consciences by buying ecologically made luxuries.... http://www.pibiones.com/ |
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