As I was surfing the environmental blogs the other day I found this video, which immediately caught my eye:
It turns out this video is connected to a very exciting, innovative new site/organization called Green Thing. What makes Green Thing so great?
The concept behind the Green Thing project is stupidly simple: create a social network (kind of like Facebook, with editable profiles and communication systems) that encourages people to follow a regime of doing at least one "Green" thing per month. For example, this month's Green Thing is to walk. Just walk once. No pressure! The idea is that by providing the community with simple ways to help the environment, those little Green Things will add up to big CO2 savings and social impact. The site helps you track your Green activities and your carbon savings, and share them with other members of the Green Thing community. The best thing about Green Thing? The level of interaction: people can upload and view videos, photos, podcasts, and other content that accompanies each month's Thing, like the video above about the beauty of simply walking on grass. There's a ton of entertaining stuff already, and the site is growing fast.
If you sign up and join the community, you get put on their email list, and Green Thing will send you videos, notifications, etc about each month's activity. It's totally free, and it's definitely worth the effort. Green Thing is unique and really exciting--it makes it so easy and fun to help the Earth. Check it out.
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I signed up today! Thanks for alerting me to Green Thing.
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