Eco Links to Green Your Weekend #5

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It’s Friday: let’s get linky.

-Skinny-skinny’s marvellous book of soap (seen here at Oh Joy!) is for the bathroom, not the library.

- Artist Mihail Alaksandrov pulls no punches in his depiction of food waste for Instituto Akatu‘s awareness campaign. (Yuck.) We spotted this over at Divine Caroline.

- Keep a healthy fridge, and you lower your energy bills. Sarah at G Living has five suggestions on how to do it.

- "Social media". Looking past the buzz-words, how useful is it as a tool for change to greener lifestyles? Max Gladwell has a look over at Sustainablog.

-Grassing the walls and roof of your house couldn’t be a bolder display of your green credentials (and we approve)…but it’s practical, too. This post at Haute*Nature has the science bit.

- Over at What Does Your Body Good, Michelle’s currently feeling liberated by a diet of raw food.

- While elsewhere, Miss Malaprop is singing the praises of independent sustainable products and businesses.

- So much for non-stick: on the heels of concerns about silicone (as we’ve reported in the past) comes evidence suggesting Teflon can lead to all manner of health problems. (via Green Fertility).

-Carmen Salva is teaching the next generation of Argentinians about recycling plastic waste – and she’s leading from the front. Read her story at CNN.

-Land and Living is a site dedicated to eco-harmonious lifestyles and architecture, and is packed full of eye-catching ideas.

Have a great, green weekend.

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.