5 Websites To Get Your Green Fix

1) The Daily Green

Pitched as the consumer’s guide to the green revolution, this website has everything and anything you need to know about green news, cuisine, products, tips and tricks.  Senior editor Dan Shapley learned about the environment by growing up in the upstate New York with a family that reduced, reused and recycled as a way of life. Born and founded on Earth Day 2007, the quirky website includes interesting headings like “Weird Weather Watch” and a blog called, “The Green Cheapskate.” The stories are clear and concise without being bogged down in too much technical jargon.

2) Grist :  A Beacon in the Smog

Add Grist.org to your Google Reader for its unique green perspective on news and technology stories.  Reporting on green newssince 1999, Grist started focusing on climate change long before the green revolution. The website is another great resource for entertaining stories with punchy headlines. Grist has a fun discussion section called “Ask Umbra” where readers can get green advice on everything from “where to buy slime free hamburger meat?” to “hair dye that won’t kill you or the planet.”  Also, join Umbra’s book club for the latest published green works.

3) Ecorazzi: The Latest in Green Gossip

Are you missing your People magazine? You can turn to this site to catch up on the the green or not-so-green lives of the rich and famous. With celebrities like Meg Ryan, Leonardo Dicaprio and Cameron Diaz speaking out on environmental issues, people of all ages are inspired to join their causes. Who the latest celebrity to join PETA’s cause? Is the Dalai Lama the ultimate freegan? This is website to find out.

4) Jetson Green

Jetson Green is a fascinating blog about green innovation and residential building. The blog was founded by Preston Koerner, a LEED AP, as a MBA student to chronicle latest building trends. The website is updated daily and on the pulse of the newest and greenest technology on the planet. The website is a preview of our future homes in five to ten years. Full resources, it is bursting with informative articles, cool pictures, videos and links.

5) Mother Nature Network

Mother Nature’s Network has one goal: to help you improve the world. MNN organizes its site with eight different channels, each providing in-depth news and information updated throughout the day: Earth Matters, Lifestyle, Green Tech, Eco-Biz, Transportation, Your Home, Food, and Family. MNN  also has a special section called “Translating Uncle Sam,” a guide to issues on governmental websites translated in simpler, more understandable terms.  Simplicity is what they advocate and in turn, their website is simply designed and very user-friendly. Whether you are green novice or expert, MNN is the perfect resource for a green living.

Belgrave Trust On Public Radio’s Marketplace Money

“Next week marks 40 years since the first Earth Day. I’m guessing they didn’t talk nearly as much about the environment then as we do now. It’s not easy being green. But it’s a lot easier when you’ve got piles of greenbacks.

Spendy solar panels? Check. Hybrid car? Check. Large check to the Sierra Club? Check. And why not? A recent Princeton University study reported that the world’s wealthiest people cause half of the world’s carbon emissions.

Ashley Milne-Tyte looks at some of the ways the well-off are trying to make up for that.”

Listen to audio of The Belgrave Trust featured on Marketplace Money here.

A Corporate Social Responsibility Top Pick

Kudos to CSR for giving Belgrave Trust the nod for what they call ‘Our Picks,’ which they define as the most pertinent and revealing CSR-related developments from their ongoing survey of a wide range of global media outlets.

Each pick is hand-selected by members of the CSRwire staff. So here’s our memo back  to the CSR staff – thanks!

The Belgrave Trust was founded by a group of individuals convinced that there was a better way to put the power of the burgeoning carbon offset marketplace in your hands. Using practices borrowed from the fields of statistical analysis and modern portfolio management, they offer a more efficient and more responsible way to live carbon neutral — helping their members channel resources in real time to the places they’ll have the greatest impact.

And to read on, here’s a link to the rest of the Corporate Social Responsibility ‘Top Pick’ for Belgrave Trust.

“Aligning Policy and Market Forces… The Way Forward Now is Voluntary Markets”

Our good friend, mentor—and member of the advisory board as Belgrave Trust’s Carbon Markets Advisor—Peter Fusaro has a first person piece published today via Triplepundit.com. And as usual, we’re in awe not just of Peter’s mastery of the issues, but of his uncommon clarity and force in being a true advocate for the green trading community.

Here are a few highlights, and check out Peter Fusaro’s full essay for much more;

The point is that with clearly written environmental goals, industry has no choice but to innovate, invest and change behavior to meet those goals. That does not mean that the government dictates the kinds of technologies industry must adopt, it allows industry to solve its problems by choosing its own means. The polluters will determine how we get to a cleaner environment because they will be required to make their own decisions about how they invest in cleaner technologies, renewable energy and energy efficiency. This is the behavioral change that is needed to reduce emissions…

Aligning Policy and Market Forces:

So, where do we go from here? It seems unlikely that this session of Congress can pass meaningful and binding legislation to start to reduce the US carbon footprint, and regroup for next year’s session. The way forward now is voluntary markets…

For Peter’s full bio click here, learn more about Belgrave Trust’s team here, and visit Belgrave Trust’s homepage to give it a try yourself.

Maria Bartiromo & The Wall Street Journal Report Tip Belgrave Trust

Last night the Wall Street Journal Report profiled Belgrave Trust in a segment hosted by host Maria Bartiromo, airing on CNBC and 200 NBC stations nationwide.

No need for an intro, just watch:

Link To Full Video @ Vimeo from Belgrave Trust

“The Perfect Gift For The CEO Who Has Everything”

“Not sure what to get your boss this holiday season… a gift the CEO probably won’t already have?” Well according to the experts at Inc. Magazine a top pick is a gift subscription for the Belgrave Trust.

Personal Carbon Offsets by Belgrave Trust

Ease the guilt felt by some eco-conscious business travelers with a subscription to a personal carbon offset program by Belgrave Trust. The Web-based service lets you create a carbon usage profile based on factors such as your job, cars, residences, and travel, and then suggests how much you would need to invest in carbon offsets via Belgrave to lead a more eco-friendly life.

Here’s a quick start guide that’ll help for that special CEO in your life — or anyone else you can think of that might have an interest in joining a community of forward-thinking people making a personal committment to tackle climate change.

Fear not my friends, The Belgrave Trust, a lifestyle consultant…

JustLuxe weighs in today with some words of high praise in an article entitled: “Belgrave Trust: An Easy Way to Offset Your Carbon Footprint.”

We like to think of ourselves as ambassadors of luxury, but pride ourselves even more when we can offer our readers a chance to enjoy the finer things in life… all while protecting the environment that we all call home. Fear not my friends, we give you Belgrave Trust, a lifestyle consultant that manages their client’s investments in carbon offsets, in turn minimizing each individual’s carbon footprint. Like us, the Belgrave Trust is an ambassador, only they are answering to a slightly larger audience: the earth.

A membership to Belgrave Trust is not only a wise personal investment but makes for an ideal gift, particularly for that person who has, well let’s face it: Everything. Not only will you receive the satisfaction that your investments are truly giving back to the environment but Belgrave Trust rewards membership time with unique gifts like wood chess sets made by Punjabi artisans or hand-crafted copper bowls

This is certainly something we can trust in.

Belgrave Trust Scores Treehugger Interview

The fine folks at Treehugger saw fit to sit down with us for a conversation about taking a different approach to living carbon neutral.

Here’s a bit of what they had to say

The carbon offset market has primarily been focused on providing services to the average person, these services, according to Belgrave Trust, are not geared toward those that can make the biggest impact. So they launched a company to give the jet-set crowd a better way to go green.

Find out what we had to say in response by reading the whole article here.

“Environmental Quickie”

How can you top a one-liner like that? Belgrave Trust member (and MediaBistro founder) Laurel Touby sure has a way with words.

“My whole life, I’ve felt guilty about not doing enough,” she says. But as she tells Halogen Life in an article today — with the help of the Belgrave Trust, that’s a problem that’s been fully satisfied.

Our Carbon Footprint Calculator

A few words about the centerpiece of our website, our carbon footprint calculator.

Those who’ve attempted to balance their carbon in the past notice the vastly different look and feel our calculator has compared to others. Customers often ask why we chose to take such a radical departure with the site’s central tool. More specifically, they wonder if something that calculates so quickly is at all accurate.

In the course of building Belgrave, we played with dozens of footprint calculators. One of the reasons we got into this business was the lack of quick, efficient calculation tools- the existing set tend to be very cumbersome. When I was inspired to offset my own carbon, I was shocked at how much work I’d have to put into what should otherwise be an easy decision. The services asked me to calculate how many KW I spent last month- something that requires some serious digging. It also asked for the model and year of my car, which is an unnecessary question since most cars have a similar carbon footprint, and tire pressure affects it as much as its make/model. I can only imagine how many millions of people have come to a carbon offsetting site with the intention of living carbon neutral, only to be turned off by hours of homework.

The decision to use an actuarial model was a no-brainer- it allows us to ask less questions and receive greater accuracy. It gives those of us without the luxury of time a chance to live carbon neutral. It also makes giving the gift of carbon neutrality possible, without digging through your friend or colleague’s trash for electric bills.

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