Enjoy reading blogs and exploring websites?
Yeah, me too.
I have a few favorite go-to sites. Some, I check on every day. Others I only go to when I have some time to kill.
Here’s a short list of those Non-Consumer Advocate-friendly blogs and websites.
No Impact Man : Colin Beavan spent the year 2007 trying to attain the goal of a zero-impact lifestyle. He did this with his wife and toddler in New Your City! (Not exactly your typical hippie-commune.) He is working on a book that will chronicle the experience to be published hopefully soon.
Wasted Food: Jonathan Bloom writes this daily blog about issues surrounding the issues of food wastage. He is an entertaining writer, and is also working on a book. This blog is very informative and enlightening. I will first in the que to put this book on-hold at the library.
Craigslist.org: Free online classifieds for everything, from free “clean dirt” to your next new house. It is simply the very best. Thing. Ever. I have offloaded the most enormous amount of excess household goods (a.k.a. — crap) through here, and made a pretty penny to boot. Warning — can be quite addictive.
The Compact Yahoo group: This worldwide Yahoo group for The Compact, (buy nothing new) boasts 9000+ members, and is a terrific resource for just about any question you may have about living with less. You have to be a member to read the posts, but it’s free and ever so entertaining. I choose to not receive e-mails of all new posts, as that would be a flat-out insane number. I simply visit the site when I need my almost daily dose.
The Simple Living Network: This website is a seemingly endless source of information on the simple living movement. From book recommendations to discussion forums, there’s something for everyone. Every time I go to this site, I discover something new.
I want to hear what your favorite websites and blogs are. (I mean this, I really do!)
Please let me know in the Comments section below.
Katy Wolk-Stanley
“Use it up, wear it out, make it do or do without.”
4 Comments
July 9, 2008 at 5:27 am
Well, yours of course! Just found you via Simple Living Network, and enjoying catching up. My faves are Going Green – http://www.burbanmom.blogspot.com
a suburban mom who decided to take one step a day to go greener for a year, and now has started a similar programme for her entire bloggy audience, and
http://www.pathtofreedom.com
a family of four adults who produce 3 tons of food each year from their 1/5 acre plot in downtown Pasadena, California, and also keep goats and chickens and are otherwise incredibly self-sufficient. Their garden photo gallery is immensely inspiring, and always motivates me to go fit one more plant into my own very small plot.
July 9, 2008 at 9:57 pm
http://junkraft.blogspot.com/
is the travel blog of 2 marine biologists who are sailing to Hawaii (on a raft made of 15,000 plastic bottles and part of a Cesna plane) to bring attention to the fact that there is no “away” to throw things to. Go non-consumers!!!
July 10, 2008 at 4:52 pm
Hey, I just found your blog from SLN too. I’ve got a ton of favorite non-consumer websites – can’t list them all – but here’s one that’s a fun read:
Marketplace: Consumed
http://marketplace.publicradio.org/projects/project_display.php?proj_identifier=2007/11/08/consumed
July 11, 2008 at 2:36 am
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