Links
Below is a list of some of our favorite websites. If you have suggestions about other sites to include, feel free to send an email to anne@solarodysseyinc.com.
Purcellville Community Market
130 E. Main Street, Purcellville (in the Town Hall Parking Lot)
Come meet your neighbors, and partake in the best local foods around!
Saturdays, 9:00 a.m. – 12 p.m.
Ideal Schools: The Future of Education
Ideal Schools’ small high school in Ashburn, Virginia, aims to show that high school can be interesting, relevant, and meaningful. School can be a fun and engaging place where students feel valued and capable, even when it is a rigorous and challenging place with very high expectations of what students can do.
Integrating the goals and needs of charities, donors, and corporations in America.
CauseWare helps non-profits discover and apply new channels for fundraising and communicating mission. CauseWare helps businesses, too, by consulting and implementing charitable and community relations programs that benefit good causes, and, at the same time, boost company morale and highlight Good Corporate Citizenship. And, CauseWare is a source for donors with questions about the fiscal and programmatic integrity of charities.
Sustainable Loudoun
Sustainable Loudoun promotes the development of a local community economy based on environmental stewardship and the sustainable use of resources.
Wildlife Ambassadors
Wildlife Ambassadors provides high quality, educational and entertaining programs. They to engage their audiences and create budding conservationists by letting their ambassadors tell their stories about their species and the environments they live in.
Solar Living Institute
Renewable Energy and Sustainable Living: Promoting Sustainable Living through Inspirational Environmental Education.
Database of State Incentives for Renewables & Efficiency
A comprehensive source of information on state, local, utility, and federal incentives and policies that promote renewable energy and energy efficiency.
Earth Aid
Earth Aid has developed a free service that measures your monthly energy use and rewards you based on how much you save. They review your household’s energy use from your utility company and use it to create a “baseline.” Earth Aid then provides you with customized advice to become more energy-efficient, and then measures your next year of energy use. And last (and most important), Earth Aid empowers you to earn rewards based on the amount of energy you have conserved.
The Green Home Guide
Learn about smart design, technology, construction and maintenance elements that significantly lessen the negative impact of the home on the environment and improve the health of the people who live inside.
Ecofont ~ Less is More
Appealing ideas are often simple: how much of a letter can be removed while maintaining readability? After extensive testing with all kinds of shapes, the best results were achieved using small circles. After lots of late hours (and coffee) this resulted in a font that uses up to 20% less ink. Free to download, free to use.
Earth 911
Earth911.com is your one-stop shop for all you need to know about reducing your impact, reusing what you’ve got and recycling your trash. In their recycling database, they can help you find over 100,000 recycling locations across the country. With information provided by local governments, industry insiders, organizations and everyday consumers, you can recycle hundreds of products from packing peanuts to computers.
