Soon after I learned my application was accepted as a blogger for the Seattle ecometro.com site, I started subscribing to green enewsletters and daily green etips. I was hesitant at first—my inbox has enough traffic and I wasn’t sure I’d be able to keep up. But I proceeded and tried to indulge my inbox with any and all green spam I could find.

Some green emails were already welcome in my inbox.  Washington Trails Association has a monthly trails enewsletter. I particularly enjoy their “hike of the month” trail recommendations. Their emails also include information on trail work parties, trail conditions, and always useful articles such as leaving no trace and the ten essentials.

Another enewsletter that has been a welcome to read in my inbox is the Seattle CurbWaste E-News, which is never a nuisance as it is only once a month. All your city-sponsored green information, events, tips, and special offers are right here.

I learned that I’m not a fan of Sierra Club’s The Green Life daily email or the “sassier shade of green” daily tip at Ideal Bite--it's a bit too sassy for me. However, mark your calendar for April 2008 as Ideal Bite will be generating daily emails for their new Seattle Bite edition and at that time I’ll be giving them a second chance. The Green Life and Ideal Bite emails were consistently a bit too short and too simple with more often than not information most green conscience individuals already know. I eventually unsubscribed from both of them, but it wasn’t because I didn’t like that daily dose of a green email.

Treehugger green emails are daily (and/or weekly if you so choose) and far surpass my expectations for what a daily green email can be. Their emails are loaded with unique, surprising, current, and quality information in a format that is pleasing to read and easy on the eye. Their green YouTube-like TreeHuggerTV just wrapped up a Convenient Truths video contest. Seriously, subscribe to this daily newsletter and check out their website now before you forget. Just by skimming their press page, you can see they’ve had their share of press hype.

Jessica and Lydia at “Green is the New Pink: Making Cooling the Earth, Hot” won’t clog your inbox. If you subscribe, they’ll send you an email about once a month that will notify you of updates to their blog. These girls know how to do their research and pull together insightful posts—their latest post (10.29.07) investigated the undeniable connection between global warming and California wildfires. I think their blog name alone is reason enough for you to subscribe.

And I wouldn’t be doing my part if I did not promote subscribing to ecometro.com’s enewsletter if you live in one of their five communities (Seattle, Portland, the Twin Cities, Eugene, or San Francisco). Their green directory and coupon books are really no-brainer solutions to finding the local green information you need. Like the easy to remember 411 or 211* access numbers, ecometro.com provides our communities access to a comprehensive, local, and regional information database—with a green twist.

Maybe the greenest (i.e., youngest) enewsletter is the Seattle edition of A Fresh Squeeze. Just this summer they branched out from Chicago and have been catering to our Seattle region with twice-weekly emails. I’m surprised how much this Chicago-headquartered enewsletter knows about my city that I don’t: Urban Hardwoods makes furniture from trees that fall on residential properties, Seattle’s Environmental Learning Centers are hiding in a number of our city’s parks, and Scoot About (an independent, woman-owned scooter rental shop in Seattle) rents scooters!

Tell me about your green spam weeding struggles and successes. Email me directly or post a comment to inform others of good and bad green blog, enewsletter, and etip finds.

*Crisis Clinic is the 211 provider for King County, offering community information for local and regional health and human services over the phone and through their regularly updated online database. Oh, and they also offer a monthly newsletter with information on health and human service resources, community events, and articles for King County.