Carnival of the Green #182

Welcome to the Carnival of the Green! This is the 182nd edition of Treehugger’s weekly roundup of eco links from around the blogosphere.

Welcome to Green Building Elements where home owners and LEED accredited professional alike can learn about advances in green and renewable building materials, current projects in sustainable architecture and progressive urban planning, and local guidelines for creating green structures in different regions of the U.S.

Here’s what greenies worldwide submitted for this round:

• Admiral India brings to life Maitri Bagh,a zoo and a park established by the Bhilai Steel Plant in Maitri Bagh, Bhilai: Part 1 .
• Monkey Profit shares gives us tips on how to rake in the cash with Making Money On Twitter.
• The Knoxville Home Expert has contributed two great posts.  We are taken into the garden with Go Green with Sustainable Landscaping Techniques and Composting 101: What is Composting and Why Should Everyone Do it?
• Guffly gives us the view on eco fashion with Men’s Organic Cotton Polo Shirt.
• In Let Them Eat Plastic: SMART Art — Trash Into Treasure, Beth Terry of Fake Plastic Fish tells us about a competition held by environmentalist David de Rothschild, for works of art constructed from materials that would have otherwise found their way into our waste stream.  Pieces like Kathleen’s plastic bottle wave tell a sad story of consumption as well as the transformative power of the human imagination.
  
• Mikkal Travvis shares tips on staying healthy with How to Survive a Flu Pandemic.
• Energy Saving gadgets gives us green home wisdom with Make Your Home Energy Efficent with The Leak Detector.
• The Green Thinking Blog brings us the movie trailer of a new independent film called FRESH that features “farmers, thinkers, and business people” in the U.S. who are making positive changes in our industrialized food system. Some of the main characters include urban and sustainable farmers and supermarket owners.

Many thanks to last week’s host, The Green Phone Booth. And since Carnival of the Green, always promises to bring fresh, new content, make sure you check out Ooffoo next week for the June 8th edition!

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Happy Monday to you all!

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