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An excellent discussion on RECs, their history, and their future. Demonstrates the market mechanisms that impact REC prices, and contains dozens of links to each of the concepts discussed.

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The Nature Conservancy
An excellent resource for calculating your personal and household impact on the environment. Their calculator is based on a series of questions which adds your subtracts from a national average to show how you compare with your fellow countrymen. Each answer shows your impact immediately so the calculator demonstrates how even small changes in your lifestyle and choice of products can have a dramatic impact on your emissions profile.

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The Climate Trust
The Climate Trust is a 501(c)(3) non-profit working towards a more stable climate. Our mission is to provide climate change solutions by purchasing high quality greenhouse gas (GHG) offsets from projects that reduce greenhouse gas emissions, and advancing sound offset policy. Their website offers a “carbon counter” calculator to help you discover your personal contribution to global warming.

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Green Living Online
The online version of Green Living magazine, dedicated to providing information on how to adapt a greener lifestyle, including energy, beauty & fashion, home & garden, family, health & nutrition, getting around and business.

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Green Home Living Magazine
An online environmental store with a wide selection of environmentally responsible products including apparel, appliances, bath, bedding, furniture, home furnishings, home improvement, housekeeping, institutional, kids, kitchen, lighting, office, personal accessories, pest control, pets, and yard and garden departments.

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Amaze Magazine
Dedicated to organic, natural beauty, holistic, eco-friendly green living including how-to articles, products, and a blog.

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Natural Home
The online version of Natural Home magazine, dedicated to “Living Wisely, Living Well”, full of articles on how to replace non-sustainable products and practices with their organic and environmentally benign equivalents.

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OnEarth
The official publication of the Natural Resources Defense Council and an excellent source of information about how local actions effect the larger issues of climate change, resource depletion and social and economic impact.

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The Environmental Magazine
Now in its 16th year, E is a bimonthly “clearinghouse” of information, news and resources for people who want to know “What can I do?” to make a difference. A 13-time Independent Press Awards winner and nominee, E is loaded with practical information like healthy food choices, eco-friendly products, green house and home topics, eco-travel and environmental impacts on health.

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BuildingGreen
An independent company committed to providing accurate, unbiased, and timely information designed to help building-industry professionals and policy makers improve the environmental performance, and reduce the adverse impacts, of buildings.

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green@work
An online publication dedicated to corporate sustainability and social responsibility. The concept, Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) may seem like an oxymoron, but it proposes that corporations have an obligation to consider the interests of customers, employees, shareholders, communities, and ecology in all aspects of their operations. This obligation is seen to extend beyond their statutory obligation to comply with legislation. CSR is closely linked with the principles of Sustainable Development, which argues that enterprises should make decisions based not only on financial factors such as profits or dividends, but also based on the immediate and long-term social and environmental consequences of their activities.

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Orion Magazine
The official publication of the Orion Society, "It is Orion's fundamental conviction that humans are morally responsible for the world in which we live, and that the individual comes to sense this responsibility as he or she develops a personal bond with nature." This is a great source for information about conservation, sustainability and stewardship.

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Sustainable Style Foundation
The Sustainable Style Foundation (SSF) is an international, member-supported nonprofit organization created to provide information, resources and innovative programs that promote sustainable living and sustainable design. SSF's mission is to educate, support and inspire people from all walks of life to make sustainable personal lifestyle choices at work, at home and at play. From fashion, food and film to interior design, travel, music and more, SSF has designs on making sustainability the next big thing, as well as a timeless trend by using the power of popular culture to influence consumer choices.

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BackHome Magazine
BackHome Magazine is one of the oldest and most respected sources of information for a practical and sustainable lifestyle. Published since 1990 out of Hendersonville, NC, BackHome is a magazine that’s literally changing the lives of its readers. It’s changing the way we design and build our homes, prepare our food, raise and educate our children, earn our livelihood, and live our lives. Many say that BackHome has given them the knowledge and confidence to do much more for themselves and others. Since 1990, BackHome has been very much a hands-on and how-to publication, enjoyed by readers in 50 states and over 20 foreign countries

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Home Power
Over the last 20 years, more than 120 issues of Home Power have been published. Each issue contains the most comprehensive, technical coverage of solar, wind, and microhydro electricity, energy efficiency, solar hot water systems, space heating and cooling, energy-efficient building materials and home design, and clean transportation options.

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LOHAS Journal
An excellent resource for businesses choosing to cater to the Lifestyles of Health and Sustainability (LOHAS) - an estimated $209 billion U.S. marketplace for goods and services focused on health, the environment, social justice, personal development and sustainable living. The consumers attracted to this market represent a sizable group in this country. Approximately 19% percent of the adults in the U.S., or 41 million people, are currently considered LOHAS Consumers. LOHAS focuses on “responsible capitalism”, and provides a rich set of tools and information to help businesses do well while doing good.

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Green Builder Magazine
Green Builder magazine, the flagship publication of Green Builder Media, is the only publication in the market today that focuses exclusively on residential sustainable development. With a circulation of over 100,000 of the most active and influential building professional firms in the country, Green Builder is the third largest publication in the residential building space. Readership consists of over 105,000 of the most active firms in the top 50 markets across the country. Green Builder is the authoritative voice on green building and sustainable development. Building professionals across the country look to Green Builder for recommendations on products and practices, guidance on green design and news, updates on legal and legislative issues, profiles of other green builders, reviews of recent and classic construction practices books, and business and marketing advice on how to sell themselves as green builders.

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U.S. Green Building Council
The U.S. Green Building Council is a 501(c)(3) non-profit community of leaders working to make green buildings accessible to everyone within a generation. The website enables architects, contractors and developers to certify their green buildings, join USGBC, sign up for educational courses and to become a LEED AP.

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