FairGreenTrade.com recently launched its green product and service directory.  The site covers many green topics, from organic foods, green living, and, of course, green building.

Consumers can now get all their green information in one stop.  Even with the newness of the site, there are many resources already listed.  A quick browse of the green construction area led to links for various materials, including flooring, wall coverings, windows, etc.  The book selection, tied in with Amazon, is also quite extensive (as I found many books that I’m sure I can’t live without).

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Users can search for businesses by name, or they can search neighborhoods for businesses that are on IzzitGreen’s green list. One of the web site’s most helpful aspects is its “Guides” page. From pizza places to used bookstores, IzzitGreen posts information about the percentage of green businesses there are in each category, where you can find the ones that are green, and they go for the dirty details…or clean in this case.

For example, if you own a business in Boston, chances are that IzzitGreen has found out what kind of lightbulbs you use, whether or not you recycle any of the materials your business or your employers use and will have a comment on what working conditions are like. And that’s just the beginning of the list.

A lively discussion forum will soon be debuting on the site. For now, all registered users are listed under the People section with varying levels of contact information.

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