The warnings about the effects of global warming have become one of today’s hottest topics. Films, videos, news, businesses, benefit concerts and bloggers are all trying desperately to raise the world’s eco awareness, but being green and following an eco path can be a tough job for some.

I thought it might be helpful if I organized some of the internets top green directories, forums, and video sources in hopes that going green won’t feel so daunting or feel so confusing. Within these sites, you’ll find everything and anything you can imagine to facilitate going green. If there are some sites we have not mentioned, my apologies. Please feel free to add them to our comment section for all to see. Hope you enjoy!

Green Thing is a not-for-profit public service that influences people to lead a greener life. Awesome videos and inspiring stories will ignite the greenie in anyone. Creative people from around the world make up the Green Thing community. Make sure you check them out; you’ll enjoy them for sure.

Freecycle Network is made up of 4,675 groups with 6,363,000 members from all over the world. It’s a grassroots and nonprofit movement of people who are giving (& getting) stuff for free in their own towns. It’s all about reuse and keeping good stuff out of landfills. I visit this site quite often and I’m sure you will too if you don’t already.

EcoStreet is an independent, pioneering directory and forum dedicated to raising green consciousness. They always have great content, probably why I’m hooked.

Elephant Journal is your guide to ‘the mindful life’ like yoga, organics, sustainability, spirituality, conscious consumerism, the arts, and anything that helps us live a good life and is also good for our planet. Founder Waylon Lewis is hilarious. His videos are a must see.

EcoTrotters is an online eco travel community that helps travelers make informed decisions when booking an eco hotel. They help provide travelers with reliable eco hotel recommendations written by other site users and eco travelers interested in merging ecology and travel. In order for a hotel to be listed as an eco hotel on their website, it must comply with a certain number of eco guidelines. Anyone who travels with an eco-conscience should check these guys out.

Green Thinkers is a site where you go to discuss and present ideas on how to live a green life. There are always great ideas posted from cool greenies. I’m always learning something new.

Earth911 is the ultimate guide for all you need to know about reducing your impact, reusing what you’ve got and recycling your trash. You can get involved by checking in for daily news, reading weekly feature stories, and surfing product channels. And trust me, you will do all of those things.

Make Me Sustainable offers tools to take action. Their Carbon and Energy Portfolio Manager enables you to visualize and contextualize your individual impact. They help you become a more environmentally conscious and efficient individual or business. Who wouldn’t want that?

Lighter Footstep believes that big changes happen one step at a time. No matter where you are on the journey toward a lighter, more eco-friendly lifestyle, they’ll help you along the way and they truly mean that. Green Living needn’t be expensive. In fact, saving resources and saving money go hand-in-hand. Greening your diet needn’t mean expensive foods, it just means being smarter about the kind of things you’re already buying. Whatever you are greening, Green Living has solutions, answers and great green advice.

Green.alltop helps you explore green information by collecting stories from “all the top” green sites on the web. Think of Green.alltop as a “digital magazine rack” of the Internet. I visit this site a few times a day. They make reading green news easy and fun.

The Green Girls is an assortment of blogs, articles, videos and photos that inspire an eco conscious lifestyle. It’s all about finding the fun in green living. Your thoughts and ideas are the bases of The Green Girls. Founder Apply Levy is always a pleasure to watch as she interviews the latest and greatest green gurus. You’ll become an addict just like me.

Meta-efficient is the analysis of efficiency, just on a more complete level. When assessing a product, they examiner not only its energy efficiency but also its global impact, embodied energy, affordability, and usability. I love this site; it’s a favorite for sure.

World Changing is a media site that comprises a global network of independent journalists, designers and thinkers covering the world’s most intelligent solutions to today’s problems. Anyone interested in changing the world needs to check it out. World Changing will help you in your first steps.

Carbon Planet is a global carbon management company whose mission is to empower people and businesses to manage their contribution to the defining issue of our age, global warming. It’s a genius site and should be visited by all.

Viva Green is a green and sustainable resource directory. You’ll have no problem finding anything green here. You’ll probably find yourself stopping in often.

Green Options Media’s rapidly growing network provides users with a broad spectrum of information for making sustainable choices. Green Options Media is a leader among green news and eco information sources. Anyone with questions, or simply curiosity, can add their voices to the community and share their approaches to achieving abundance while lightening their eco footprint.

Greenopia is your local guide to green living. Their directory of eco-friendly retailers, services, and organizations creates this awesome guide. This guide is not a paid directory; companies cannot pay to be included because they have already met their strict standards of eco-friendliness. You really can find anything you need or want on this site. A bit addicting.

GreenLine Index is a complete green directory that helps you find environmentally safe products and services. Whether it’s for your child, a green certified restaurant or an eco contractor they can help you find it.

CTN GREEN is comprised of 4 blogs, a video gallery, a full screen virtual magazine, news portal and an art gallery. Need I say more? This site is dedicated to the entire spectrum of sustainable, green, eco living. I’m happy they exist and you will be too.

The moms behind Green Mom Finds know that being a parent is hard enough without having to worry about whether the toys you buy are toxic or the baby shampoo you are using is safe. They understand that you’re a parent and time and energy are at a premium, therefore you’re not always able to search high and low for safer more eco-friendly alternatives, so they do the work for you. A must visit for any parent, or anyone soon to be.

Help the planet and find great safe and fair trade goods. Find your next organic or natural products from their extensive Fair Green Trade directory. It’s a catalog that offers the best shopping opportunities. Tough not to spend hours on this site.

Green America is a not-for-profit membership organization whose mission is to harness economic power, strength of consumers, investors, businesses, and the marketplace, and to create a socially sound and environmentally sustainable society.

Planet Green is the only 24-hour eco lifestyle television network with a huge online community. The on-air content reaches 50 million homes, offering more than 250 hours of original green lifestyle programming. Planet Green’s content is entertaining and accessible to people of all ages and backgrounds.

Ideal Bite offers eco ideas for green living for real people who lead busy lives but want to make small changes that add up to big results. Their Daily Tips cover everything from biodynamic wines to eco-pet products. Head on over for a keep-it-real kind of site.

Carbonrally is a web activism platform that offers individuals and groups a fun, simple and social way to have an impact on energy consumption and climate change. At Carbonrally, you can discover and commit to small, positive actions over time.

Happy Hippie is simply concerned about the environment. It’s a place for like-minded people to get together and chat about ideas, and a hub for small business owners to gain exposure. Great site, with great community energy.

TreeHugger is the leading media outlet dedicated to driving sustainability mainstream. You can find all you need to go green in their blog, weekly and daily newsletters, weekly video segments, forums and weekly radio show. Treehugger also extends their expertise to companies looking for a little green guidance.

About My Planet covers all eco topics. Recently they launched new sites to focus on tighter niches within the green community and have become a well-known authority on all things green. You’ll love all their sites, something for everyone.

Go Green Tube is the destination for the world to share and view green videos online. They help provide important information about our environment, green technologies, innovations, products, and services so our governments, corporations, organizations and individuals can “Go Green” using the most effective means possible. It’s the YouTube for the green world!

Our Earth makes it easy for people to find environmental information. There are outstanding environmental programs, activities, initiatives, ideas, and grassroots efforts all across this country. Our Earth makes acquiring this information easy. You’ll be happy you stopped by. I’m sure of it.

Green Energy TV is an online TV channel that is dedicated to airing green videos for millions of viewers. Green Energy TV has viewers from over 160 countries on 6 continents going to Green Energy TV. It’s sites like these that help spread the good green word.

Earth Lab is a climate crisis community that provides a practical guide to green living through community interaction, environmental news, advice from experts and key analysis. They also feature a personalized carbon calculator, a unique three-minute survey that generates a carbon footprint score (ECP Score), which members can then save and track their success over time. It’s a great way to create your own personal green strategies.

EmPivot is a network that brings together a wide range of user generated and premium video content related to the environment. EmPivot is a great aggregator of green-related media content for anyone and everyone to access online.

Care2 provides powerful tools to make a difference in your life, community, country and the world. It’s driven by passionate people who want to restore the world’s balance. Care2 makes it easy for everyone to live a healthy, green lifestyle and impact the causes they care about most.