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Just for Kids

Environmental Kids Club
Play games, recreate a science experiment, and learn the facts about protecting our environment. From the Environmental Protection Agency.

Kids Be Green
Learn to be green with games, coloring, and activities. Brought to you by the Waste Management Board.

Tox Town
Learn about what environmental hazzards and toxins that can be found in cities, farms, coast, and boarders, from the National Library of Medicine.

How to Go Green: Kids Toys
Get your toys in gear! Planet Green can help you have a green toy box.

Green Tips, Earth Day, Environment, ConservationNational Geographic for Kids has some great tips on how you can go green this summer.

Disney's Environmentality Challenged
Disney can help you change our environment for the better through school activities.

Home

25 Eco-Chic Ideas for Your Home
Danny Seo, author and green home guru has picked out some home items that many of us view as disposable, but have great sustainable counterparts for $25 or less.

Low Impact Living
Low Impact Living provides small tips and tricks to decrease your impact on the earth. Check out their impact calculator for personalize projects your family can do to lower your Low Impact Living Index.

Green Home Guide
This is your one stop information spot on setting up your green home.

Greener Choices
Looking for greener choices in electronics and appliances, Consumer Reports is helping us out.

Make Green Home Cleaners
Do you want to go a step further? Start making your own home cleaning products.

Recycling

Kane County: Household Hazardous Waste
Looking for a way to recycle prescription drugs, cleaners, and other household waste? Checkout the Kane County Recycling web page for more information.

Earth911 - Find Recycling Centers
Looking for a place that recycles motor oil, paint, or aluminum cans? Try out Earth911, they locate the closest recycling center by location and recyclable.

What to Do About E-Waste
Have you upgraded your laptop, cell phone, or printer and don't know what to do with your old one? Recycle it! The Natural Resources Defense Council has information on how to recycle your e-waste.

Kane County Electronics & Books Recycling Days
Kane County will take your old and used electronics on 1 Friday & Saturday of each month. Make sure to check the Kane County web site for dates and the list of approved electronics.

How to Go Green: Pets
Looking for ways to reduce your pets "carbon paw print"? Green Planet can show you how.

Garden

How to go green: Gardening
Planet Green has the information you need to green your garden.

Organic Gardening
Organic solutions to all your gardening questions. The online resource for Organic Gardening Magazine.

What is Organic Gardening - The Basics for Gardening Organically
About.com shows us the basics or organic gardening and how to get started.

Green Teens

Teen Ink: Environment Contest
Do you have a plan to save the environment? Teen Ink wants to hear it. Every year Teen Ink sponsors a writing contest for environment changing solutions. Check their web site for all the details.

Greenversations
The Environment Protection Agency's official blog, check out the High School category for posts written for teens.

Seventeen: Go Green
Seventeen Magazine's guide to going green.

Hollywood's Green Teen Sceen
The Daily Green points out who is green and what they support.

Teen Vogue: Top 23 Eco-Celebrity Style Picks
Teen Vogue shows 23 ways to become eco-chic.


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