National Geographic Kids has games, activities, crafts and more that help kids learn about and care for the environment, science, and nature. This is a top notch site and definitely worth exploring. Lots of good stuff here, well-designed and kids will love it. The Environmental Protection Agency has a kids site with loads of ideas projects and activities to get kids involved in making real changes to their world to help the environment. They can also join the EPA Kids Club and participate in projects. HealthyChild.org has five easy steps to making your home more safe for babies and children with natural solutions to common problems that usually send people to toxic solutions. PBJ Campaign site tells you how you can reduce your carbon footprint simply by giving your kids more peanut butter. It even has solutions for schools that have banned peanut butter. GreenKids.com has some neat projects for kids including easy directions for doing worm composting. If you can stomach it, this is a cool science project, can help reduce your household waste, good for your plants and, hey, worms as pets...maybe you can put off getting that puppy a little while longer. gDiapers are the answer to disposable or cloth diapers. gDiapers have a flushable lining contained in a really adorable cloth cover. Why are gDiapers good for the planet? Their site explains:

It is simple. Our flushables are designed using the Cradle to Cradle design principles of Bill McDonough and his firm MBDC. That means everything that goes into one of our flushables gets re-absorbed back into the eco-system in a neutral or beneficial way. So you are turning waste into a resource. At the same time, you are putting poop in the toilet, where it belongs, and avoiding the landfill issue all together.

My friend uses these and admits it was an adjustment at the beginning, but once you get used to it it's no problem at all. You can buy the Starter Kit and refills from Amazon. Reusablebags.com is the ultimate online destination for cracking your plastic bag habit. They have so many cool, affordable, sustainable, stylish, compact and mulit-functional bags that there's just no excuse for not making the switch from plastic. Do you have a favorite environmental site? Share it in the comments.