The Green Guide

Have you ever been looking for a "green" product or service on the web? Have you found the results overwhelming? Or, maybe you're just not finding anything at all. If you do find what you're looking for then how on earth do you know that the website you're visiting is truly socially and environmentally responsible? Do you take them at their word?

Time to breathe a sigh of relief. National green pages is like the Yellow Pages of Eco-Friendly businesses. The National Green Pages™ is a directory listing nearly 3,000 businesses that have made firm commitments to sustainable, socially just principles, including the support of sweatshop-free labor, organic farms, fair trade, and cruelty-free products.

All of the businesses listed on the National Green Pages site have been rigorously evaluated.

To qualify to appear in the National Green Pages™ and carry the Seal of Approval, companies' representatives must demonstrate that they:

• Actively use their businesses as tools for positive social change;

• Run "values-driven" enterprises that operate according to principles of social justice and environmental sustainability;

• Are socially and environmentally responsible in the way they source, manufacture, and market their products and run their offices and factories; and

• Are committed to developing and employing extraordinary practices that benefit workers, customers, communities, and the environment.

So, wether you're shopping for appliances, financial services, energy products or wine, you will be able to shop with confidence knowing that the companies listed share your same core values.

Head on over and give it a try right now, I'll bet you dollars to donuts that you bookmark it immediately.