A Newshound's Guide to Going Green

Overview:
This guide is geared towards the wiki visitor who wants to keep up with the latest in environmental news, from both obvious sources such as the New York Times as well as those that may not be your bookmarked on your homepage (Environmental News Network or the Sacramento Bee, anyone?). The following resources offer newsfeeds, providing constantly updated links to stories; many also offer commentary accompanied by links to the original news sources so that you can see where they're coming from.

The Resources:

1. Ecotravel News

ecotravel news

An environmentally friendly resource for the latest on ecotourism

About this resource: This blog focuses on ecotourism, dissecting the latest news stories and bringing attention to eco-related stories from newspapers (e.g. The Washington Post, Los Angeles Times), magazines (Travel + Leisure, Plenty) and green-focused media outlets (Environmental News Network).

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2. Grist: Environmental News and Commentary

About this resource: The Grist gives capsule commentaries and rundowns on stories both major and off-the-beaten track, with links to their sources; one commentary might offer five different links, so you can really get a wide view of the subject's coverage. The site also offers a free daily digest of the day's top stories, sent via email.

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3. Organic Consumers Association (OCA)

About this resource: The news collected here has a very definite slant, but the sources are credible and the stories are listed without commentary. The homepage offers an RSS feed of the day's news; the archives go all the way back to 1997.

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4. Worldchanging: A User's Guide to the 21st Century

About this resource: The News and Views section of this ground-breaking site offers links to topical articles from various news sources, while the free newsletter will deliver worldwide headlines to your inbox daily.

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5. Yahoo! Green

About this resource: The search engine's all-green, all-the-time site links to up-to-date climate change news on its micro-site homepage, and clicking on More Environmental News will lead to to Yahoo!'s environmental news site. Most of the stories are wire copy, from the Associated Press, Agency France-Presse and Reuters.

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