Top 20 Environmental Blogs You Can Read
Today is Blog Action Day, an initiative which encourages bloggers all around the world to write a blog post on this very day about anything concerning the environment.
The main aim of this collective project is to generate awareness on the importance of environmental responsibility, while emphasizing the fact that each individual can play their part to help conserve resources, prevent pollution and minimize damage to our climate.
I’ll be honest and say that I’ve never been big on environmental issues, perhaps due to apathy. While I do have some elementary understanding on the environmental movement because I’ve studied it in college, I’ve never taken real actions except for the weekly recycling of trash and the reusing of items like paper.
I should probably do a lot more. And I want to.
First place to start for me, is this list of 100 Ways to Save the Environment. There are probably many other sites like this with equally useful information, which brings me to the purpose of this post…
Top 20 Environmental Blogs You Should Read
I thought it’ll be nice to celebrate some of the best environmental blogs around the internet. There are way too many to list, so I thought I’ll rank them according to del.icio.us, the most popular social bookmarking website on the internet.
The following blogs are sorted according to the number of people who bookmarked each blog’s homepage. When you bookmark something, it means you want to go back and read it again; these blogs are regarded as resources by those who bookmarked them and it’s a fair indication of the value that each provides.
Feel free to visit, bookmark or subscribe to each blog, if you like what you see. If I missed any awesome blogs that should be in the list, let me know.:-)
1. TreeHugger (saved by 6828 people)
2. World Changing (saved by 4245 people )
3. Inhabitat (saved by 3981 people)
4. Real Climate (saved by 1146 people)
5. Pruned (saved by 783 people)
6. EcoGeek (saved by 739 people)
7. No Impact Man (saved by 721 people)
8. The Oil Drum (saved by 622 people)
9. How to Save the World (saved by 597 people)
10. Monbiot.com (saved by 504 people)
11. Green Car Congress (saved by 358 people)
12. AutoblogGreen (saved by 280 people)
13. Green Options (saved by 276 people)
14. The Daily Green (saved by 223 people)
15. Sustainablog (saved by 215 people)
16. Lazy Environmentalist (saved by 209 people)
17. Gristmill (saved by 188 people)
18. Ecofriend (saved by 108 people)
19. Eco-Chick (saved by 89 people)
20. Greenthinkers (saved by 88 people)
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Two points —
1) This is a great list — I’ve read most of these and can attest to the great content these sites churn out each day. Thanks to Maki for putting the list together.
2) At 54 del saves, my own site (21st Century Citizen comes up a bit short - although we’ve only been launched for about 90 days, so hopefully it won’t take too long for us to break this top 20 list!
Thanks for dedicating the space to Blog Action Day!
I didn’t even know there were such things. Even if they are something that doesn’t entertain most users, they still got the nice look and feel that other blogs do! This was a very nice post for Blog Action Day. I’ll leave you with some props Maki!
Sly from http://slyvisions.com
Maki, I think that everyone wants to, just like you. But we get lazy…or there’s no recycling where we live…or the green route is the more expensive one…hopefully people can be convinced otherwise by this Blog Action Day.
Regardless, this *is* a good list. TreeHugger is good, but I like ecoGeek.
Here’s my Blog Action Day 2007 contribution:
The Obnoxious Guide to Environmentally-Safe Job Hunting
Thanks for the excellent list of blogs. I watched the Al Gore movie about Global Warming, and I’ve been monitoring renewable energy trends so this is a subject close to my heart. Thanks for the post!!
Thank you for this wonderful list that introduced me another 20 great sites.
I also read Read/Write Web’s top 35 environmental blogs.
You somehow managed to adapt Blog Action Day to your blog’s usual style, by posting one of your typical lists of useful links each accompanied by a screenshot. Well done!
“I’ve never taken real actions except for the weekly recycling of trash and the reusing of items like paper.”
This is not so bad. One step at a time, that’s the key. By taking some simple measures we can make a difference, as long as ALL of us do it. I try to save water and persuade other people to do it. You recycle and reuse certain items. My boss might stop throwing garbage on the streets (which is a lamentable practice in my country). Your neighbour may decide to use her bycicle instead of her car. And so on.
Small changes can really do a lot, and the pioneers can always be seen as good examples by the others, who’ll eventually try to follow them.
I know I’m a dreamer, but that’s much better than being hopeless and refusing to take any action at all. ^_^
I admire what TH and WC have done, but they’re too commercial for me now, I hardly go there any more.
Of these, I read daily (and in this order(–inhabitat, real climate, ecogeek, the oil drum, and green car congress, and that’s about it.
But then again, what do I know?
It’s good to have this kind of campaign.
It protects the world.
hey maki.. was gonna do this myself.. good that I couldn’t post it.. coz I wouldn’t have done as neat a job as you…
Hi Maki,
I’m very much into saving energy and in particular the diminishing resource of fossil fuels. However, I think the global warming issue needs to be considered carefully. And on my own post for Blog Action Day I give a few more resources to look at that question a few of the assumptions we all make about climate change.
Jim
Great list of environmental blogs Maki.
Hey Maki.. Thank you so much for this wonderful list!
Please don’t forget to take it to the streets! To Washington! To pass a super-aggressive Energy Bill that will push through some seriously aggressive pro-environment legislation. Finally!
Congress finally has a chance to pass meaningful energy legislation. The bill they are about to pass includes the best fuel economy standards ever (35 mpg by 2020) and a renewable electricity standard (15% by 2020) that guarantees the growth of renewable, clean energy. But there is a chance these two key advances won’t make it through to the final bill.
http://www.energybill2007.org
I am working with a coalition to make sure Congress sends the president a strong energy bill with meaningful changes for our environment and planet. This legislation would be a monumental step toward stopping global warming. Go to http://www.energybill2007.org and sign the petition. This is our chance for real progress, don’t let Congress back down!
Here’s another site that’s focused on saving water. Australia, among other continents, is undergoing environmental hardships due to lack of rainfall. The GetGreen Water Saving tips website aims to educate people on how they can save water.
I just had to make sure treehugger and ecogeek were on that list.
Thanks for the great starter list. You find a more complete list at http://www.bestgreenblogs.com/meta which is the Meta Site for all blogs green and sustainable…
A great list of great sites! Some inspiring writing out there, and some sites I haven’t visited recently. This will refill my RSS reader.
Good Luck!!!
I have worked in the “bioremediation/water and soil reclamation” business since 1969. I have yet to meet the ‘elected or appointed” official who would actually do something about severely polluted soil or water.
I have done ’site assessments’ for many officials in SE Asia over the years to determine the extent or degree of pollution they are confronted with only to have them say “Thank you” and not do anything about remediating the problem after they are aware of the costs.
Now the problems have gotten so far out of control, I do not believe there is enough money in their cofers to pay anyone to bring them back into any sort of clean water compliance.
These problems also exist here in the US. There is so much bureaucracy and legal wrangling, that by the time the project has achieved approval, there is no money remaining to address the pollution.
I have determined that the best thing to do is “save thine own ass’, as that expression goes. Since there is more talk than action, what else is there to do.
Fortunately for me, with all the years of experience I have accumulated in water reclamation, I have devised an escape plan. What is sad to me, there are tens of millions of people who are oblivious to this problem and will most probably perish for lack or join the hordes that will rise up and TAKE the water they need from those who cannot defend themselves.
Many of those water problems around the world could be reversed if the approveal and money were there for the reclamation. Sad, isn’t it?
Dale
Hopefully, the U.S.’s next president will actually make some major improvements in the environment. One can only hope…
Speaking of Lists here is a website with a diffrent list, this list has the top ten greenest cities.
(http://forum.skyscraperpage.com/showthread.php?p=3225220)
http://www.earthlab.com
listing the greenest cities in the US. This shows that municipalities care about climate change. I guess the general population cares about the environment and global warming. My score on their calculator was 400 but at least I am trying. Here is the link to the website that published the list of cites and where the carbon calculator can be found: http://www.earthlab.com. The test took me like 5 minutes tops, and then maybe another 2 minutes to find the pledges I wanted. Pretty cool application.
Good Post.
DO green-centric blogs have good prospects
This one is not so much a blog as a website. Does anybody know about it ( http://www.earthlab.com ) ? I have seen other environmental sites with carbon calculators like yahoo and tree huggers, but I am wondering what the deal with earthlab.com is? I saw they also published a list last month of the top ten greenest cities ( http://www.efficientenergy.org.....ted-States ). Does anyone know if this site is better than the others? Fill me in!
I took their carbon foot print test and it was pretty interesting, they said that I put out 4.5 tons of carbon, does anyone know about any other tests?
Thanks for the very informative article with very good list of environmental blogs. Regards.