The Best Green Living Resources in one place

I am a green realist first, enthusiast second. Being a single graduate student at Buffalo State College, my lifestyle won’t ever be totally “green”. I live in a small space where I have communal bathrooms, a kitchen, and a private bedroom. By communal I mean that I share these resources with at least 10 other people at a given time. I am frustrated by the messes they make and the conflicts resulting from use of shared spaces, but the tension between living in close quarters pans out in the end because I know that this is my little part to live green.

Some steps to greening your lifestyle don’t have to be dramatic as relocating into a communal setting, though it is a good step. You can practice hyper-miling when your driving to increase your gas mileage, create a vermaculture (you must love worms for this) to deal with waste, or just simply recycle the gifts from last year to a new friend this year. All of these strategies end up saving you money in the long run since resources are handled more efficiently and effectively.

What else can you do? Well, that is up to you and your lifestyle. Below are several links that I know you will find helpful and will cut your living costs.

Green Living Resources

http://www.worldchanging.com/

http://www.treehugger.com/

http://www.aboutmyplanet.com/category/daily-green-tips/

http://greenlivingideas.com/simple-living/index.php [podcast]
http://www.idealbite.com/ [e-newsletter]

http://www.groovygreen.com/groove/?cat=5

http://sierraclub.typepad.com/greenlife/

http://grist.org/advice/ask/2008/05/21/ [an insightful green guru providing humorous responses to life's greening questions]Gr

Creating a community project’s vision

The Ride to Inspire Student Engagement

The University of Wisconsin at River Falls hosted this event where 5 school districts and more than 100 students, teachers, and professors participated in a giant community asset mapping exercise. Given a large sheet of flip chart paper, they were guided by AmeriCorps volunteers through a process to identify their community’s strengths, problems, and imagine how one problem might be solved by connecting the community’s strengths in a service-learning project. At each table, different projects were developed and the students went back to their schools to develop how to make it a reality.

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