Earth 911 is "making every day Earth Day." You can find listings in your area (searchable by zip code) for reuse and recycling centers, hazardous waste disposal, and beach water quality reports, plus lots and lots of other green info at their http://www.earth911.org site or by calling them at 1-877-EARTH911.

When you're considering a purchase, would you like to have a resource that would help you make the greenest possible choice? Here are some resources, including a couple that are set up to make it easy for you to ask your own specific questions:

• Consumer Reports maintains a site called "Greener Choices: Products for a Better Planet" at http://www.greenerchoices.org . You can submit your e-mail address to receive updates, as well.
• Is your time pretty much maxed out, but you still want to make greener choices? You can find what promises to be "the busy person's guide to greener living" at http://www.greenmatters.com . The site offers a weekly e-mail eco-tip service, a Q&A, action alerts, links to more info, and a shopping function, too.
• The American Public Information on the Environment site ( http://www.americanpie.org ) offers an online Q&A service. You can also call them toll-free with your eco-questions at 800-320-APIE (2743).
• Grist online magazine publishes an eco Q&A service called "Ask Umbra" at http://www.grist.org/advice/ask/ . There's also an "Ask Umbra" FAQ at http://www.grist.org/advice/ask/2005/10/26/faqs/index.html . If you don't see the answer to your question there, you can also search the "Ask Umbra" archive at http://www.grist.org/cgi-bin/search.pl?archives=yes . And they now have Joel Makower to answer your work-specific questions in his "Toiling Point" feature http://www.grist.org/biz/tp/ .
• The Union of Concerned Scientists publishes an e-newsletter they call GreenTips which you can subscribe to at http://www.ucsusa.org/publications/greentips/ . That page also includes links to previous issues.

Are you a student or professor who would like more detailed information about the state of the world and ecologically responsible choices? Worldwatch University is an online resource center which offers "research tools, useful facts, and ideas on how to turn your interest in sustainability into action!": http://www.worldwatch.org/ct/20040922/features/wwuniversity/ .

Would you like to learn more about how to reduce waste in your life--at home, in the workplace, and wherever else you can? Check out the website of the Zero Waste Alliance at http://www.zerowaste.org . They also work to eliminate the use of toxic chemicals.

I much prefer taking positive, visionary action whenever possible, but sometimes a boycott is just the ticket when I think a corporation is engaging in absolutely reprehensible behavior. Go to http:// www.boycotts.org to learn more about some of the organized boycotts currently in effect.

Do you think corporations, their advertiser shills, and the media are lying to you? Well, duh! Would you like to know just what they're lying to you about, though? Check out http://www.prwatch.org .

Would you like to learn more about the plants and animals that live in your area? Check out http://www.enature.com .

Here's an online tree identification guide: http://www.arborday.org/trees/treeID.html .

Would you like to learn more about the state of the world's rainforests, including the indigenous, tribal peoples who live as part of them? If so, check out http://www.rainforestweb.org .

Are you interested in learning more about the World's Biomes? Check out http://www.ucmp.berkeley.edu/glossary/gloss5/biome/ .

Want to know more about a chemical you have been exposed to or are worried about being exposed to in the future? Go to Environmental Defense's "About the Chemicals" site here: http//www.scorecard.org/chemical-profiles/ .

Want info specifically about insecticides, herbicides, and other biocides? Here're a few options:

• Beyond Pesticides offers info about the toxicity of these killers as well as nontoxic and less-toxic alternatives. There's even a directory here where you might be able to find a company in your area that uses healthier alternative methods: http://www.beyondpesticides.org/main.html .
• The Pesticide Action Network North America (PANNA) offers similar resources, online at http//www.panna.org/ .
• The Northwest Coalition for Alternatives to Pesticides offers extensively researched fact sheets with footnotes at http://www.pesticide.org/ .

Here's the website inspired by the book Our Stolen Future , the best online resource I know of for the latest information about hormone disrupting chemicals: http://www.ourstolenfuture.org .

Go here for the World Resources Institute's "EarthTrends: The Environmental Information Portal" site: http://earthtrends.wri.org/ .

Would you like to know more about the organized and well-funded effort by right-wing and libertarian think-tanks, so-called "free-market" and "common-sense" environmentalists, and organizations that bill themselves as grassroots but are really "astroturf" fronts for big corporations? If so, go to http://www.mapcruzin.com/greenwash/ .

You might also find their homepage at http://www.mapcruzin.com , where they offer "tools and resources for reimagining our relationships with each other and the earth."

Are you interested in knowing more about the social responsibility--or the lack thereof--of the companies you buy this, that, and the other from? If so, look them up at http://www.idealswork.com .

Are you concerned about sprawl in your town? Check out http://www.sprawl-busters.com.