Green Blog of the Week: WebUrbanist

If you’ve never visited WebUrbanist before, prepare to spend a lot of time there. It’s got the kind of fascinating material that pulls you in and before you know it, hours have passed while you sat there drooling over Creative Steampunk Art, Design and Fashion and 20 Examples of Hilariously Geeky Art and Graffiti: From Mr. Spock to Stephen Colbert. WebUrbanist features the best urban design, culture, travel, architecture and alternative art on the web with eye-catching photos and snappy, succinct writing.

Better yet, WebUrbanist regularly features green art, design and technology, covering topics ranging from 7 Modern Wonders of Green Technology and Great Green Roofs to Strange Green Vehicles and Creative Green Arbosculpture. It’s all the coolest green stuff, distilled down to display the best of the best.

From WebUrbanist:

We scour the net to find neat new stuff then boil that information down and pack it into an article with relevant images and links, as exhaustive as we can manage on a single subject area. Our team is comprised of web designers, bloggers, architects and other curious urbanists.

WebUrbanist has multiple articles per week. The emphasis is on quality, well-researched and fully sourced articles on whatever the subject is. This is not a blog in the traditional sense (of many smaller posts on a daily basis). It is, rather, a collective online urban magazine which we hope you will enjoy every time you open your inbox or feed reader or visit our site.

Don’t take our word for it – get lost in the addictive posts yourself. Sign up to receive the site’s email updates so you don’t miss out (on the home page).

Link [WebUrbanist]

Green Blog of the Week: Jetson Green

We here at EarthFirst.com loooove Jetson Green.  It’s without question the best source of green design news and info on the web, it’s well laid out with eye-catching photos and the writing is always spot-on.  Jetson Green always seems to have the latest scoop on the most exciting green building projects before anyone else.

The man behind Jetson Green is our own Hot Guy in Green Preston Koerner.  He’s the founder, sole owner and chief editor of the green web magazine, and started Jetson Green as an MBA student in the summer of 2006.  His goal? To research, document, and discuss trends in green building.  Since then, green building has emerged as one of the major sources of innovation in modern technology, so it’s an exciting time for Preston and everyone who loves architecture.

Wednesday the 23rd marked Jetson Green’s 2nd anniversary on the web, and in that spirit, they’ll be giving away some awesome green gifts.  The giveaways are open until midnight (mountain time) tonight.  To participate, just leave a comment in the article for each giveaway post – you’re welcome to participate in all of them if you like.  Preston will be picking a random number for each article which corresponds to the number of comments received.  Winners will receive emails requesting their physical address.  If you win and send him your address, your green gift will be in the mail next week.  The prizes are the following books:

• MOO Green Pack of Eco-friendly Business Cards
• Book Duo: Worldchanging & Nature by Emerson
• Building Green with Kevin Contreras Season 1 DVD
• e² Season 1 & 2 Design and Energy 3 Pack DVD Set
• Ripple 3D Recycled Wallpaper Set & The Lazy Environmentalist

Be sure to check out the legal terms here.

Props to Jetson Green for 2 years on the web, and we hope you have many many more!

Link [Jetson Green]