Private Life-Oriented Online Communities

WorldChanging.com: a community site with news, articles, and blogs – all for the sake of change your way of thinking and living to more sustainable ways. Keywords: U.S.-focused, personal action and practical focus.

Treehugger.com: a huge community site striving to be "a one-stop shop for green news, solutions, and product information" – making it possible to be informed, to interact and to take action. Keywords: green lifestyle, news and product information.

DotheGreenThing.com: a community site giving advice and tips and tricks on how to take green action. Keywords: practical tips and personal action.

Grist.com: a website offering environmental news and commentary in the broadest sense, written in a straightforward and humorous way. Keywords: US focused news, articles and commentaries on environmental and climate change.

Green.Yahoo.com: a website and community publishing news, articles, blogs, and commentaries on climate change in the broadest sense. Keywords: green living and home, climate change, technologies, advice on action, blogs.

Earth911 is a website dedicated to deliver actionable local information on recycling and product stewardship that empowers consumers to act locally, live responsibly and contribute to sustainability.

PE International – Carbon Footprints is a website set up to help the user determine and thereby mitigate and offset his/her own carbon footprint, calculating the carbon emissions resulting from products, companies and events.

EcoTube – a YouTube-like community where the members can upload environment videos, vote and comment on each others' videos.