Easy Ways to Save the World is a fine collection of practical tips and products that make green living not only possible, but pleasant. Matthew’s info-packed site includes personal recommendations and advice on a wide range of products, like the Ban Beater, a home gray-water system that helps you recycle water quickly and easily.

Yes, yes, yes, it’s all well and good to say you’re going to build and maintain an organic garden…but how do you actually do it and have a life as well? Check out Earth Friendly Gardening. Here are the down and dirty details, from plant selection to mulching, from a Caroline Brown, a “freelance writer, rat race refugee, and gardener-in-training” in Rhode Island, who is documenting her own process of discovery about sustainable gardening and all that implies. It includes her about “the interconnectedness of people and their gardens with the earth, water, and sky. Here, I hope to share resources and information on how to garden in a more ‘earth-friendly’ (sustainable) manner. And you’ll also read a lot about sustainable farming and living.” You’ll find all that and more in this useful and rather touching blog.

Kevin Kennedy lives wayyyy up north in Yellowknife, NWT, Canada…but the challenges he faces to build a sustainable lif are just as great as anyone urb an dweller’s. Clay and Wattles, his cheerful and sometimes relentless blog, focuses on the day-to-day issues of green living – everything from building (or buying) a bike-rack that actually works through the logistical jungle of rainwater harvesting to the building of a pet waste digester (with inspiration and photos taken from City Farmer). Kevin says, his “sustainable living diary” is just his way of “systematically improving my family’s environmental footprint and having a conversation with others about how to live a ecologically and socially conscious life in the north.” Such is life on the tundra….

Lisa Ayres believes in water conservation. She’s passionate about spreading the word, though education, innovation, marketing…and blogging. Water Conservation with Rain Barrels and More is a great place to discover how water consumption can work, with links, commentaries, and insight from somebody who lives water conservations 24/7.

Norene’s Five Percentt is a gentle, thoughtful and useful site where San Franciscan Norene tracks her slow and well-meaning conversion to sustainable living. But she’s also put together a long list of really wonderful “calculators” — web sites that, with just a little prompting, will do everything from measure your footprint to tell you the level of waste caused by gourmet coffee cups to ten things in between. A whole new way of looking at: Carbon Use, Coffee Cup Waste, Commute Cost, Commute Impactm Ecological Footprint, Energy Star Savings, Energy Usage Impact, Greenhouse Gas, Home Energy Saver, Paper Grade Comparison, * Personal Transportation Impact, Pesticides in Food, Recycling Habits Impact, Tuna Safety, Water Usage Impact. An unexpcted but effective way make your life matter.

Going “green” on a personal, daily, household basis sounds like a great idea…but the nuts-and-bolts of it are pretty daunting. Steve Spence of WInthrop, NY, has actually been doing it, piece at a time, and his blog (despite its boring name) is crammed full of practical information on converting to wind power, solar power (PV), and biodiesel. Steve’s already done it: he’s living “off the grid”, and is ready to show you how it can happen. (Did you know there are even instructions for converting a school bus into a veggie-eater?)