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The fine works of art: The London Tower Bridge

Saturday, January 29, 2011

The fine works of art: The London Tower Bridge

Tower Bridge, London, UK

101 Great Eco Companies

101 Great Eco Companies: "

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We wanted to start a collection of great eco based companies around the world that are really making a difference. We are starting with 101 companies and will be expanding this list in the future to include some up and coming bright start-up companies. If you have any other suggestions for this list please feel free to contact us with your ideas.

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Top Eco Blogs from Around the World

ECOKI.COM THE ECO NEWS COMMUNITY

The best eco news and product reviews community!.

ECOBLE.COM

All about ecological design, innovation and sustainability.

NIGELSECOSTORE.COM

The eco blog of an environmentally friendly clothing and products company.

SOLARKATECO.BLOGSPOT.COM

An environmentalist, who posts about eco news, natural products, food and much more.

INHABITAT.COM

A blog devoted to green construction, green design and everything environmental.

IJDESIGN.COM

News about making a difference, design tips and green Graphic Design.

GDUSA.COM

An online magazine focusing on green Graphic Design and other environmentalism.

ENVIROBLOG.ORG

Public Health concerns in relation to the changing environment.

GREEN-BLOG.ORG

A nicely designed blog with tons of green topics to choose from.

FABGREEN.COM

Fashion, decorating and design topics, with a green twist.

ECO-CAN.CA

Canada’s place for environmental news and product information.

GREENYOURDECOR.COM

All about stylish, eco-friendly decor.

NATURALCOLLECTION.TYPEPAD.COM

The blog of the green clothing company Natural Collection.

Environmental Clothing Companies

GREENLABEL.COM

100% Certified Organic T-Shirts, with tons of great pro-earth designs.

INHABITAT.COM

Organic T-Shirts with nice tree designs.

ETIKO.COM.AU

Fair trade sports gear and fashion apparel.

HTNATURALS.COM

A selection of all natural and organically grown textile products.

PATAGONIA.COM

All natural outdoor clothing and travel gear.

MEC.CA

Outdoor clothing, adventure gear and sports equipment from a company that is driven by environmental integrity.

RAPANUICLOTHING.COM

Organic clothing and surfwear manufactured in a factory powered by wind and solar power.

DANDELIONCLOTHINGCOMPANY.COM

Women’s and men’s fair trade and homemade apparel and accessories.

THEOKOBOX.COM

Women’s and men’s fair trade and homemade apparel and accessories.

GREENISBLACK.CA

Fashion for environmentally conscious men and women.

KATEQUINNORGANICS.COM

Organic cotton baby clothes, children’s clothes and bedding.

Green Printers

GREENPRINTERONLINE.COM

An online printer that uses CO2 friendly eco papers and vegetable based inks.

BAREFOOTPRESS.COM

American printing company that uses soy ink on recycled paper.

GREENERPRINTER.COM

Eco-friendly online printing, using 100% wind power.

PRINTGREENER.COM

Green Print provides software to help eliminate unwanted printing.

GREENFIELDPAPER.COM

Hemp paper, handmade paper, recycled wrapping paper, business cards and more.

MARKETSINITIATIVE.ORG

This handy reference tells the truth about different eco-paper labels.

ECOPAPER.COM

Providing tree-free paper made with sustainable and organic materials.

LOVELYASATREE.COM

Helps Graphic Designers to choose paper and printers that are environmentally friendly.

INKWORKSPRESS.ORG

A certified Green Business, by using exclusively recycled papers and vegetable oil inks.

Online Communities and Information

TREEHUGGER.COM

The largest green community on the internet.

EARTHEASY.COM

The informative portion of the Eartheasy website. Discussing how you can make environmentally friendly choices in your daily life.

EC.GC.CA

A Canadian government info site. Providing information on reducing your impact on the environment in your personal life.

ZEROFOOTPRINT.NET

Large non-profit website with information, carbon calculators, green news and an entire community.

DESIGN21SDN.COM

The online community for socially conscious designers of all kinds.

ECOWORLD.COM

Tons of articles featuring green focused technology, nature and current news from around the world.

GREENLIVINGONLINE.COM

A Canadian online magazine devoted to living a green life.

LIGHTERFOOTSTEP.COM

Dedicated to helping you live a lighter, more sustainable lifestyle.

Natural Products

EARTHEASY.COM

The shopping portion of the Eartheasy website. They provide all sorts of great sustainable products.

ECO-COSMETICS.COM

Cosmetic products relying on substances from certified organic plants and innovative combinations.

ECOLOGO.ORG

This site provides information on “Certified” green companies and products.

GRASSROOTSSTORE.COM

A large selection of environmental consumer products.

ECO-HANDBAGS.CA

Fantastic handbags made of recycled materials.

NIGELSECOSTORE.COM

Great environmentally friendly products, wearables and energy saving devices.

ECO-COSMETICSUK.COM

Developers of inexpensive and certified natural cosmetics.

ECOCOSMETICS.COM.AU

A range of skincare products using only the purest plant-based ingredients.

NATURALCOLLECTION.COM

From clothing and accessories to home and office.

ZIAANDTIA.COM

Organic children’s clothing, furniture and skincare.

LITTLEGREENBAGS.CA

Earth-friendly bags, dedicated to being fair trade and biodegradable.

GREENKNICKERS.ORG

Fair trade organic underwear for men and women.

Green Designers

SEGD.ORG

The Society for Environmental Graphic Design.

ZODSHOPCO.UK

Graphic Design company that works with businesses and people concerned about environmental issues.

IJDESIGN.COM

Green web design and Graphic Design.

MORSEBROWNDESIGN.CO.UK

A Graphic Design business with a strong environmental conscience.

FREERANGESTUDIOS.COM

Selling ideas that build a more just and sustainable world.

CREATINGMEDIA.CO.UK

Web design and Graphic Design ethically driven and environmentally compassionate.

ALRDESIGN.COM

Socially conscious and environmentally friendly Graphic Design.

MICHAUD-DESIGN.COM

Environmentally conscious Graphic Design.

CUMULUS-DESIGN.COM

Cumulus is proud to offer you a wide range of eco-friendly printing, paper and packaging products designed to fit all needs and budgets.

COMPOSITE-PROJECTS.COM

Working to minimize Graphic Design’s impact on the environment.

LUNARMEDIA.NET

Graphic Design that uses green printing and wind powered web hosting.

Eco Hosting

AISO.NET

Providers of 100% solar energy web hosting, servicing major clients such as the Discovery Channel.

SOLARHOST.CO.UK

Web hosting powered by 100% solar power.

SUSTAINABLEHOSTING.COM

Powered by renewable wind energy Sustainable Hosting is dedicated to being carbon neutral.

ETHICALHOST.CA

Web hosting services 100% powered by renewable wind power, with 10% of profits going to social and environmental organizations.

DREAMHOST.COM

A carbon-neutral organization since 2007.

GREENHOSTING.ORG

Canadian wind powered web hosting.

GOGREENHOSTING.COM

Certified wind power web hosting from an ethical company.

SUSTAINABLEWEBSITES.COM

100% carbon neutral web hosting.

SOLARENERGYHOST.COM

Solar powered web hosting, by a carbon neutral company.

IMOUNTAIN.COM

A solar web hosting provider, that gives back to the community.

THINKHOST.COM

Providing high quality earth-friendly web hosting and supporting positive social change.

Global Warming

ALGORE.COM

Al Gore’s official website, focusing on his fight against climate change.

CLIMATECRISIS.NET

The website for Al Gore’s famous movie on climate change, An Inconvenient Truth.

THECLIMATEPROJECT.ORG

Dedicated to raising awareness about climate change.

EPA.GOV/CLIMATECHANGE

The United States Environmental Protection Agency site with extensive resources on climate change.

CLIMATEHOTMAP.ORG

The early warning signs of global warming.

NASA.GOV

NASA’s take on Global Warming.

REALCLIMATE.ORG

A blog dedicated to the science of our climate.

Environmental Photography

BRAASCHPHOTOGRAPHY.COM

Photography from amazing places all over the world.

IANADAMSPHOTOGRAPHY.COM

Award-winning sustainable photography.

JMG-GALLERIES.COM

A talented photographer with stunning environmental photos.

WILDSITE.COM.AU

Environmental photos that feel like they are alive.

DANIELALDOGOMEZ.COM

Photography from Antarctica to the Amazon and Argentina.

GARYWHITE-PHOTOGRAPHY.COM

Travel photography from London photographer Gary White.

TELEGRAPH.CO.UK

Article: Environmental Photographer of the Year winner.

STUARTMEIKLEPHOTO.CO.UK

Stunning imagery by an award winning photographer.

HANGINGPIXELS.COM

Beautiful environmental photographs for purchase.

Articles

TIME.COM

Discussing the new face of environmentalism.

ARSTECHNICA.COM

The results of the new UN environmental report.

DISCOVERMAGAZINE.COM

Save the planet, by eating insects!

SCIAM.COM

What would happen to the world if human’s disappeared?

TREEHUGGER.COM

Americans care more about gay marriage than Global Warming.

ODDITYCENTRAL.COM

A Sea of Garbage in Indonesia.

GUARDIAN.CO.UK

The true impact of Global Warming.

GLOBALWARMING-FACTS.INFO

50 things you can do to stop Global Warming.

LIGHTERFOOTSTEP.COM

Five things that are worse than Global Warming.

NWF.ORG

The effects of climate change on wildlife.

PHYSORG.COM

Major cities turn off power to raise environmental awareness.

ECOKI Hands On Eco Product Reviews

The best eco news and product reviews community!.

Natural Colors from Photographs

Natural Colors from Photographs: "

The importance of building a congruent color palette for web design is paramount. A person’s eye will automatically make judgments on color based upon their human instinct. Green is seen as a representative of nature, purple reflects that of royalty, and white portrays a feeling of neutral calm and so forth. When selecting your own color scheme from a photo, online color palette generators can be a helpful tool to work with.

In order to do it from scratch, you will need a good photo with the feeling you are trying convey and maybe only two strong colors. Start off by choosing the most vibrant color, then the second most vibrant to compliment the first. The remaining three colors to select will be less saturated and designed to balance the first two. This is a tricky thing to do, so if it doesn’t give you the result you are looking for the first time, keep practicing, and maybe choose another photo.

Online color palette generators each provide a different result. The best way to find the one for you, is to try the same image in all of them, to see who gives you the results you are looking for.

Below are some examples using DeGraeve.com

The fantastic thing about this color palette generator is that not only can you use your own image, but the results provide you with a selection of five dull and five vibrant colors to choose from.

Some of Our Favorite Color Links

A warm thank you to Ben Nelson for the butterfly photograph

DEGRAEVE.COM

The fantastic thing about this colour palette generator is that not only can you use your own image, but the results provide you with a selection of five dull and five vibrant colours to choose from.

COLOURLOVERS.COM

This article is a long time favorite. Eighteen different colour palettes chosen entirely from butterflies. It is really a spectacular resource to check out.

BIGHUGELABS.COM

Here is a colour palette generator with some flexibility. Choose a photo from Flickr, Photobucket, a URL, or upload one right from your computer.

WPDFD.COM

An in-depth article about the use of colour and palettes on the web.

COLORHUNTER.COM

Upload your own photo to automatically create a colour palette, and view other people’s results. You can also join the community and save your favorite colour palette’s.

Envira Media Launched!

Envira Media Launched!: "

Envira Media is dedicated to funding and managing sustainable business models. We support and fund environmentally sound business models, as well as manage some of the best socially responsible sites online. We have a wide range of socially responsible and trusted brands to help your company gain exposure from initial Branding Statement through to Marketing and Advertising. Our latest project will launch in July, 2009.

With over 3,000 advertisers across dozens of sustainable verticals, we connect socially responsible advertisers and publishers. The Envira Media advertising network has over 6 million unique visitors per month. With the focus on sustainable brands our expertise in advertising solutions can connect the right demographic to your sustainable brand.

Visit EnviraMedia.com

TweetHawk iCon Pack

TweetHawk iCon Pack: "

We made the TweetHawk logo available for CandyBar as well as available as an icon pack. All the images are under the Creative Commons 3.0 licence. Basically use as you like other then for commercial use, and a link back to Studio 7 Designs is appreciated but not required if you find a good use for the icons.

We just launched Tweethawk Twitter Backgrounds, a free twitter backgrounds gallery. Since we wanted to make only the highest quality designs, it is taking us some time to make each background image. We hope to have 10 designs in total launched soon.

DOWNLOAD ICON PACK (PNG)

DOWNLOAD CANDYBAR ICNS PACK (OSX)

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EnviraMedia Project Updates

EnviraMedia Project Updates: "

We have been very busy working on quite a few projects in the last year and finally are ready to roll them out one at a time over the next couple of months. Here is a preview of some of the projects and what we have been up to!

We will have individual posts about the new projects and what we have planned for them, but quickly here are some of the latest launches. Some of them are live and some are about to launch in the next week or two.

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Ecoki.com The Sustainable Lifestyle Community

(From the Press Release)

Ecoki.com is a fresh, new eco-lifestyle community filled with enthusiasm for all things eco-related.

At ecoki.com, we’re passionate about all things green – whether it’s the latest in scientific research, the newest eco-fashion fad, or an update on organic foods. Regardless of your interest(s), ecoki.com strives to provide you with up-to-date news, great green tips, or even a recipe for dinner.

The latest in eco-news and know-how is only half of our site – we also are constantly building our ecoki shop, providing you with sustainable selections of the best eco-products (many of which we give a detailed review, so you can read our articles to know exactly what you’re getting).

Ecoki.com began in early 2009, from a few folks with a love for living the green life. Since then, we’ve been expanding rapidly, sharing a growing wealth of information as fast as we can post it.

Promoting sustainability is what we love, and by covering all-aspects of a green lifestyle is what makes ecoki what it is. Our mission is to show everyone how living the green life is taking the steps in the right direction to reduce environmental affects, improve our health, and develop an overall, eco-lifestyle.

Whether you’re tuning in for a news update, perusing our tips on getting green, or shopping in our eco-store, ecoki.com welcomes you to live a little in our lifestyle.

A big thank you goes out to Liam at wefunction.com for working with us on the design and development.

TweetHawk Twitter Backgrounds

Envira Media Inc Environmental Idea Lab

We are about a week away from launching our Environmental Media Company. (Yes we wish we could have gotten the domain EnviroMedia, but Envira has a nice ring to it and is close enough to Enviro) EnviraMedia Inc is our idea incubator and start up funding company. We are funding, and starting around 30 different online and offline initiatives that are focused on sustainable business models and environmental awareness.

Team Ecoki at Kiva.org

We are happy to announce our Kiva.org Team Ecoki. We have managed to collectively raise enough funds as a business to be the 7th most donated business at Kiva.org with over $7,000US total raised within the first week. We hope you can join our team and help donate micro loans to hard working entrepreneurs around the world. We are only $6,500 away from beating out Microsoft in the amount of money raised! Our main goal is to beat Microsoft in donations by the end of 2009.

Slurp Network Preview

We have been working on niche news and content network of aggregates. Called the Slurp Network. Here is a brief preview of what we hope to launch in the next few weeks. The first of the sites will be DesignSlurp.com.

We are excited about these launches coming up and will continue to update on these and more as they become ready to launch. Thanks to all the supporters on each project.

The EnviraMedia Team

Ten Great Eco Communities

Ten Great Eco Communities: "

TREEHUGGER is an amazing site that one could spend hours browsing through. The articles are very well written and cover a broad range of environmental topics. All of which, are easy to find, due to their well-designed navigation.

Along with Treehugger’s large quantity of articles, the site allows the user to interact by chatting on the forums, commenting on articles, taking quizzes and much more. The site also deserves recognition of one of the only Job Boards that focuses on green jobs.

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ZEROFOOTPRINT (zerofootprint.net )

Zerofootprint focuses mainly on Carbon Offset topics. They have an interactive Personal Carbon Manager that allows you to calculate your carbon footprint and purchase carbon offsets (for home and/or business). As well as downloadable information sheets regarding managing your carbon output.Another feature of the Zerofootprint site is a database of articles, events and initiatives.

Zerofootprint also offers Enterprise Carbon Management (ECM), a method for helping companies measure, monitor, and reduce carbon emissions. It’s an end-to-end, customizable solution that allows companies to measure and track the environmental impact of their business.

BREATHING EARTH (breathingearth.net)

Breathing Earth is an AWESOME site! It is a real-time simulation of what is currently happening in our world. The site features statistics on every country in the world, including their population, CO2 emissions, births and deaths.Along with the individual country statistics, the site also tracks the current world population, and various statistics happening since you arrived at the site.

Once you get past the amazing real-time world, there is an entire information section on topics like CO2 emissions, climate change and recommended resources.

BLOGACTIONDAY (blogactionday.org)

Blog Action Day has been going on for a few years now, you may have heard of it. Every October, bloggers world wide band together to discuss poverty to raise awareness of this issue that effects everyone. This website is the “home-base” for promoting Blog Action Day, and focuses on getting people involved year round through other outlets such as micro loaning through Kiva.org and Twittering about the issues.

EARTHEASY (eartheasy.com)

Eartheasy is a site designed to teach you ways to ‘green’ the different aspects of your life. It is basically a database of articles divided up by topic; Live, Grow, Eat, Play, Wear, Give. A bonus feature of the site is the Eartheasy Store that sells products for sustainable living.What makes the site extremely effective is the ease at which you can find articles, and the relaxed writing style that makes it easy to relate to.

ECORAZZI (ecorazzi.com)

Ecorazzi is a fun site for those inclined to check out the daily gossip sites. This one follows the same premise, but with a green focus. Articles include: Celebrities Attending the National Biodiesel Conference, The show The Office features a Prius Driver, Sheryl Crow Designs an Eco Grocery Bag. The site is a lot of fun and allows you to easily navigate a variety of topics.

INHABITAT (inhabitat.com)

Inhabitat is an environmental blog focused on home and lifestyle topics such as: Architecture, Home, Products, Gadgets, Fashion, Packaging, Transportation and Energy. The site contains lots of cool articles and the authors make sure to include lots of visual references and images. The site also features an online shop with a ton of products not available in retail stores. All environmentally friendly of course.

WE CAN SOLVE IT (wecansolveit.org)

We Can Solve It is a community of people petitioning to switch 100% of America’s electricity to clean energy sources - within 10 years. The Campaign was founded by Al Gore’s non-profit The Alliance for Climate Protection. The site features videos, success stories, articles and more. You can even sign up to their green newsletter.

GREEN LIVING (greenlivingonline.com)

Green living is a wonderful site with tons of articles on a variety of lifestyle topics. The site is a joy to browse through due to the well-designed navigation and all of the articles are really interesting. The site also features product reviews, slideshows and links to related green blogs.

LIGHTER FOOTSTEP (lighterfootstep.com)

Lighter Footstep is a great site with articles on a variety of lifestyle topics. The site is full of really interesting articles and is easy browse through due to the well-designed navigation. Some of the topics include: Family, Garden, Health, Living, News and Recycling.

Ecoki The Eco Community! (ecoki.com)

Ecoki.com is a collaboration between Studio 7 Designs Inc and Envira Media. With well over 200 articles already written on a wide range of subjects, as well as hands on product reviews from some of the best eco focused companies around the world. Subscribe to the ecoki.com RSS feed for updated eco news and product reviews from around the world.

Green Globe Ideas (greenblobeideas.com)

Thank you to Navdeep for the recommendation.

30 Nature Inspired Websites

30 Nature Inspired Websites: "

We come across many great eco and nature based website designs through our design gallery cssnature.org. We have decided to do a regular posting of our favorite designs and ethical companies that are making a difference in the world. Below is a great selection of 30 nature based website designs (including a few of our own of course!)

If you have a company that would like to be included on our nature based gallery, please submit your site and thumbnail to cssnature.org/register.

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Discover Borneo

Antidecaf

Sponaar

Dockside Green

4DesignTV

Nebon Media

mikmik

David Hellmann

Viget Inspire

Signature Properties

Arbutus Photography

Carbonica

Longfellow Ranches

Cantera Real Estate

Andrew Gransden

Bellingham Real Estate

Coffeenatic

North Shore Fellowship

Asheville School

Celso Casamentos

Lignarius

Pacific Union College

Berger & Partners

Wiser

Adventure Trakking

Parehua

Brookside

Remedy Coffee

The Lippincott

For more great nature based sites, be sure to check out CSSNature.org.

We update regularly and accept only nature related sites. You are sure to be inspired!

Free Nature Wallpapers

Free Nature Wallpapers: "

We wanted to create a list of nature based desktop wallpapers that would inspire. We have composed a selection of environmental inspired desktop wallpapers. Some are relaxing, others have stunning colour schemes, the one thing they all have in common is that they are all incredible examples of the amazing world around us.

We will be adding to this list as we find more amazing naturally inspired desktop wallpapers.

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