Featured, Green Blogs - Saturday, August 30, 2008 18:45 - 6 Comments

Top 10 Green Blogs Spreading the Word Virally

Eco-friendly, environmentally conscious, change-the-world oriented blogs are popping up every day.  As they emerge and grow, several have achieved success by spreading their messages on social media sites like Digg, Reddit, StumbleUpon, and Yahoo Buzz.  Here are 10 who have demonstrated a “viral” essence in achieving social media love.

Green is in, and it’s growing.  The Internet, notorious for fostering negativity and depravity, has started to embrace environmental messages in blogs and news websites.  As more people become conscious of the efforts, more blogs are created and promoted using the quickest method of putting eyeballs on content: going viral on social media websites.

Here are the top 12 who have achieved social media bliss regularly over the past 3 months.  They are regulars on Digg, Reddit, StumbleUpon, Yahoo! Buzz, Propeller, and Mixx, as well as the green-niche social media sites like Hugg, MindBodyGreen, and Care2.  These sites have a wide range of traffic that they can send to an article, image, or video, but the best ones can send tens of thousands of visitors to a blog.

For many, it is the primary source of traffic.  In compiling this list, we will use number of Digg front page stories as the primary indicator.  If you can make it on Digg regularly, you can make it anywhere. Continue…