Website Round Up - Friendship

This weeks Website Round Up is a great selection of sites to give you the skills and inspiration to make a real difference in the lives of your friends:

Active Listening - Hear what people are really saying
Kahlil Gibran - On Friendship
Building Friendships
Maintaining Friendship is crucial

Enjoy!! And don't forget to look up our How to Make a Difference charity, SALVEASERRA. Donate if you can or spread the word about the great work they do!

Website Round Up - Reduce Reuse Recycle Rethink Refuse

Here are some GREAT sites to inspire you to send less rubbish to the landfill:

• Creative Ways to Reuse rather than Dispose
• Rubbish Free Year
• The Story of Stuff
• Reduce Your Rubbish
• My Recycled Bags
• Etsy - Katwise: Ecclectic *Original* recycled

Website Round Up - Rebuilding your Local Economy

There are some great resources on the Web for anyone wanting to revive their local community. Here are a few to get you started. Enjoy!

• Stories for a sustainable future
• ModestNeeds.Org
• 10 Reasons to Eat Local Food
• neighBORROW
• Towns to drive local economy with own currency

Don't forget to vote in our Charity Poll! Click here to choose your favourite Charity.

Website Roundup - Clearing the Clutter

• The Freecycle Network
• Five key tips for the clutter-besieged
• Declutter 15 Minutes a Day
• 15 Great Decluttering Tips
• Conquering Clutter

Website Round Up - Managing your Money

With prices rising the way they are, a few tips for making your dollar go further definately won't go amiss. Check out the following websites for budgeting advice, dollar stretching tips and tricks and ideas to challenge how you think about money.

Sorted.org
Cash Control
Simple Savings
Your Money or Your Life
BeingFrugal.net

Website Round Up - Get Active

If you need some more ideas or inspiration to get active and get healthy, take a look at these sites . . .

SPARC - Active living
Physical Activity versus Exercise
Active Living at Work
Exercise for Beginners
FoodFitness

Carnival Time?

Well, we didn't get any responses to our Blog Carnival this week, so instead I have hunted down some of the best sites to help you with preparing meals in advance for you and your family. Enjoy!

Feed The Freezer: Freezer Cooking Guide

Once a Month Cooking - Freezer Cooking

Freezer cooking - Once a month cooking

30 Day Gourmet

Website Round Up - Save Money on Groceries

If you need more ideas or inspiration to keep your food bill to a minimum, then take a look at these websites. Most of the sites on todays list offer more than just grocery savings tips. Be sure to take a look around and learn howto make the most of your hard earned cash!

Simple Savings
Mealopedia
Ten Tips for Saving at the Grocery Store
Save on Groceries with ‘Strike-Point Shopping
Spend Less on Groceries

Website Round Up - 2008 Children's Book Awards

Looking for more great books to read with your pre-schooler? Here's an international selection of book awards sites to peruse for help finding the best of today's children's titles.

• New Zealand Post Book Awards Picture Book Finalists 2008
• Red House Children's Book Awards 2008 Shortlist
• Winners of the Moonbeam Children's Book Awards 2007
• The CILIP Carnegie & Kate Greenaway Children's Book Awards 2007 Winners

And while you're looking, check out this great list at zenhabits.net

Website Round Up - Saving Water

Puzzled as to why we need to save water? Take a look at these websites and find out about the mounting Water Crisis and what YOU can do about it.

• Pulitzer Centre


• Living Water International


• World Water Day


• ONE - the campaign to make poverty history


• Millenium Water Alliance


• Charity: Water


• Living Water International - the H2O Project


• Discuss the water crisis and what you can do about it