Tips for Green Living

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Tips for Green Living

There are lots of websites available to explore sustainable living. Here are just a few resources:

Recycling and waste prevention in greater Portland Oregon area :

Find out where to take your recyclables, how far the recycler is from

your location, descriptions of accepted materials, helpful maps and

details on this page on the Metro website (Portland, OR area).

Click here to view.

Find out how you can reduce waste in the first place and compost effectively by visiting Metro's Sustainable Living page. Click here to view.

Reduce junkmail, including credit card offers:

The newly revamped consumer site by the

Direct Marketing Association offers free service to help you get in

contact with everything from websites that stop unsolicited credit card

offers to signing up with the National Do Not Call registry. Click here to view.

Reduce catalogs that come to your mailbox:

This website will help you let catalog

companies know whether or not you wish to receive their catalogs. It

also tracks how companies respond to your requests. Click here to view.

The Redirect Guide:

The healthy and sustainable business directory and lifestyle guide

encouraging green living and sustainable communities in the Portland

Oregon area.

Click here to view the guide.

Portland Office of Sustainable Development:

OSD

delivers policy and programs that integrate efforts related to energy

efficiency, renewable resources, waste reduction and recycling, global

warming, green building and sustainable food systems.

Click here to view.

ENERGYSTAR:

Information on US EPA Energy Star programs and products help save the

environment and save consumers money by using less energy through

advanced design or construction. Contains a list of Oregon and

Washington green home builders as well.

Click here to view.

Earth Advantage:

Learn more about green building and having an energy efficient,

sustainable and healthy home. Contains a list of builders of green

homes in Oregon and Washington as well.

Click here to view.

Oregon Tilth:

Oregon

Tilth advocates sustainable approaches to agricultural production

systems and processing, handling and marketing. Their website also has

a guide to organic restaurants.

Click here to view.

Earth911:

This

website delivers actionable local information on the environment that

empowers people to act locally, live responsibly and contribute to

sustainability.

Click here to view the guide.

The Green Guide:

Created by the National Geographic Society, this website gives guidance

on making green choices â€" from traveling to housecleaning. Click here to view.