Today is the 3rd Blog Action Day, meaning that you’ll be bombarded by articles from all over the internet on helping our environment. We took part in the first two, and of course we’ll be taking part in the bombardment today as well.
Keeping in line with our regular topic, we’ve pulled together a collection of the best designed “green” blogs and websites out there.
As web and graphic designers, one of the easiest ways we can help out a green organization is to help out with their site’s design. There are a lot of big environmental websites out there with great information which could do with a facelift!
Hopefully the sites below will inspire you with what you can come up with for a “green” website, whether it’s green or not!
And more importantly, the content on all these sites is packed with information on the effects of issues like global warming and foresting, along with tips on how to reduce your impact.
Inhabitat
– One of the nicest green color palettes in this list.
Planet Green
– With a pretty brave logo! Seems to work though.
Pando.org
– No green to be found, which is a nice change! This one’s all in the header photo.
The Greenists
– Little details like the leaves in the nav and sidebar headings are done perfectly. 
Treehugger
– You *must* load up this site and check out their navigation trick on the right side.
World Changing
– Organizes its content particularly well.
Ran.org
– A lot more striking than most others in the list!
EcoGeek
– Very relaxing and easy on the eye.
No Impact Man
– The illustration in the header makes this one, great work!
The Daily Green
– The header typography across the site looks great.
Apple and the Environment
– Like all things Apple, this one is well designed.
Evergreen
– The grey and white with the awesome background image give this site a very different feel to the others. Definitely one way to stand out!
Climate Progress
– Not as graphically impressive as some of the others here, you still have to give them credit for doing something different with the green color scheme.
Clean Technica
– All about green technology. Notice the clever design in the logo?
Alt.Energy
– The design here is mostly in shades of grey, but color is used very effectively for splitting up the different sections (blue for hydropower, orange for solar etc.)
Take Part
– Very cutting edge design with some great effects!
Greenpeace
– Not as impressive as you would have liked from such a large movement, but if nothing else, it is quite neatly done.
Cool Green Science
– Extremely minimal, and it works.
Earth2Tech
– Another clever play on circuit boards and leaves, Earth2Tech also has a nice layout for posts on the homepage.
Carbon War Room
– Stunning graphics work on the planet, and a pretty impressive script as well (Shows the scale of various emissions and green energy generation)
Earth Hour
– Another excellent site maintained by the WWF.
Global Warming
on Change.org – A social networking design with a lot of character.
What do you think of these designs? Have any favourites?
What would you do for a “green” web design?
And if you want to learn more about Blog Action Day and the thousands of articles being written by bloggers around the globe, be sure to check out Blog Action Day’s official site
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Update
(15/10/09): Thanks to Gopal Raju
and Sunil
, we have 2 more awesome green designs to add to the list! Thanks guys.
Green Ideas
– A very peaceful design with a fantastic illustration! 
Heroes of the UAE
– It’s not often I say this, but the Flash video actually makes this design. 
#1 by petra9 on October 19, 2009 - 2:29 PM
It’s nice design.
#2 by sivap on October 19, 2009 - 4:48 PM
These green web designs are simply superb. These are my favorite designs as well. These gave a very pleasant look. Keep up the work.
#3 by a7m00dy on October 19, 2009 - 6:06 PM
I think the green color is a very beautiful in the designs. thanks for your efforts
keep it up
#4 by troshleck on October 20, 2009 - 11:14 AM
Finally I have found such a cool/perfect blog. I`ve been looking for something like this. Very interesting. Excellent green web designs- they really are. Thank you
#5 by yehia88 on October 20, 2009 - 11:42 AM
The treehugger website is my favorite design.
#6 by fhyra on October 21, 2009 - 2:23 AM
my favorite is Ran.org. i almost dying in designing my website, i really wanna use the green color, but i think it’s too soft. i love “a man” color like black, dark blue, brown…. but after i see Ran.org. i think green and black is a perfect match. thank you.
#7 by vampire on October 21, 2009 - 2:01 PM
Ya this is my favourite color. It looks so nice.
#8 by happylengkong on October 22, 2009 - 2:12 AM
not just design, all of this website are are very interesting to explore…
we can share our attention for our earth…
it not just about web-design,..
#9 by pardiganteng on October 23, 2009 - 12:31 AM
wooow…this is nice idea…This design suitable for people who care about the environment…
#10 by shinning on October 25, 2009 - 6:57 AM
awesome admin this design are really cool.. it gives a decent awesome look hope looking for more kind of stuff like this…
#11 by wilsonuju on October 27, 2009 - 10:41 AM
i am already using the services of other website builders for my website , but now after seeing this green web designs , i think iam going to dump them , its just fantastic