Eco Links to Green Your Week

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Wednesday already, and so much to say! Since we’d better make it snappy, here are a few green stories in brief:

How green is your home? Prize-winningly? If so, you’ll be interested in Low Impact Living’s competition that awards the most eco-friendly home $500 in credit for products and services through their website. If you think you’re in with a chance (and here’s a ready-reckoner), make sure all your home improvements are complete by June 15th and contact Low Impact Living in the week following. Best of luck!

For chasing the clouds away, for being the change, and for looking sylish and trim, we recommend yoga. Problem is, if you’ve just started…it’s easy to get lost amongst the asanas. If you’re having problems telling your Tadakasana from the Vrksasana, this illustrated guide is just the thing. (Remembering there’s no beating a qualified teacher, of course).

In the wake of natural disasters, the suddenly homeless struggle to rebuild, in every sense. GreenUpgrader has the story on an innovative approach to emergency housing – a temporary recycled-pallet house that forms the framework for a permanent home.

Social news networks are the new ear-to-the-ground and grapevine rolled into one, often the quickest way of hearing the latest. Now there’s EcoURLs, aimed specifically at spreading environmental stories and founded by social media maven Muhammad Saleem and Hank Green (the latter of tech-loving EcoGeek). Sign up to have a browse here.

Journal-writing is fun, therapeutic and helps keep the memories of each day distinct and special. Shame I’m so crummy at sticking to it. There’s always that one day when I’m too rushed to write a full entry – and that’s the beginning of the end. Gretchen Rubin of the Happiness Project might have the answer: stick to a single sentence a day. Read her proposal over at Gimundo.

Admittedly, when you’re asked to name the best wine-producing countries, England doesn’t exactly spring to the lips. But….English wine is biofuel? Prince Charles thinks so, as he’s converted his Aston Martin to run on surplus wine, reports the Huffington Post. (I didn’t know there could be such a thing as surplus wine – maybe it just applies to the English variety.)

In keeping up with eco-news, you’ll have seen supermodel Gisele Bündchen‘s name crop up a few times. Now she has her own blog (in Portuguese and English)! Will she answer her comments like a good blogger should? Time will tell. Thanks to the Huffington Post for the scoop.

Have a great green week!

Image: CarbonNYC

Mike Sowden

Mike Sowden is a freelance writer based in the north of England, obsessed with travel, storytelling and terrifyingly strong coffee. He has written for online & offline publications including Mashable, Matador Network and the San Francisco Chronicle, and his work has been linked to by Lonely Planet, World Hum and Lifehacker. If all the world is a stage, he keeps tripping over scenery & getting tangled in the curtain - but he's just fine with that.