Green Living

Get tips on how you can become an everyday environmentalist — including tips on greening your office, BBQ and wedding!

Green Living Blog Posts

How to Tech Responsibly
Can you have your computer and be green, too?

Crowdsourcing the Birds
Join a volunteer effort to track how climate change is affecting bird migration.

We Don't Need Earth Day. We Need an Earth Generation.
Does Earth Day matter as a serious day of environmental action?

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Nature Photo Contest
Submit your best nature images to our 2009 photo contest and help inspire others to protect nature — enter now!

Nature Rocks
Take part in our Nature Rocks campaign by getting outside with your family this summer. Explore all the easy ways to get involved and make a difference.

Share Your Green Tips
Share your tip for living greener — anything from saving water to conserving energy to getting children interested in nature and more — and read great tips from others!

Ways to Get Green

Everyday Environmentalist
Raise your own chickens! Go paperless! Get 26 tips from real people on how to green your life — and then send us yours.

Summer BBQ, the Green Way
Let the grilling begin! Learn tips for making this your greenest BBQ season ever.

Have a Green Wedding Day
Read our ways to reduce your celebration's impact on the planet, from invitations through the honeymoon.

What's Your Carbon Footprint?
Use our carbon footprint calculator to find out — and get suggestions on how to reduce your impact on climate change.

Green Your Office
How can you be environmentally minded at work as well as home? By following some of these simple steps.

Send an Ecard
Spread your love of nature by sending friends and family a Nature Conservancy ecard!

Adopt an Acre®
Adopt an Acre for yourself or a friend and help protect nature in places from Australia to the Appalachians!

Plant a Billion Trees
Help us bring Brazil's wonderous Atlantic Forest back from the brink — one dollar and one tree at a time.

Nature pictures (left to right, top to bottom): Photos © Stuart Freedman (London's Borough Market); © Chris Helzer (native bee on ragwort, Griffith Prairie, Aurora, Nebraska); © Woodleywonderworks via a Creative Commons license (Asparagus on the grill); Photo courtesy of The Spanglers (Green wedding day); © TNC (Carbon Footprint Calculator); © Erika Nortemann/TNC (Green Your Office); © Luca Guigiani (Singing bird); © Sergio Pucci (Sunset off Campanario Point and Cano Island Biological Preserve in Costa Rica's Osa Peninsula); © Scott Warren (Seedlings); © Howard Cheek (Nature Photo Contest); © Flickr User: champy1013 (Share Your Green Tips) Close