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Don't you wish that there was something productive you could do between sessions of checking in on old junior high classmates and playing Scrabble on Facebook, the greatest time-waster ever devised by man? Of course you don't. But here are some compelling reasons to take a millisecond and do some green good anyway. Join these groups and help plant trees, get the UN to create a bill of Planetary Rights, fight climate change, and more. Because really, how much more amusement can you wring out of poking your friends?
The Greenest Facebook Groups Around
TreeHugger already recently covered Facebook's greenest apps, so we'll only be hitting on the groups out there. And the top green Facebook groups are:
1. Trees Have Rights Too - Bill of Planetary Rights Group
Ever since the Trees Have Rights Too movement branched out to Facebook things have been heating up for this seriously green group. They aim to petition the United Nations to create a Bill of Planetary Rights that would impose regulations and guidelines regarding environmental affairs. Check out the Facebook Group and join the cause.
2. iChapters' Tree Planting Group
After you join iChapter's Facebook group, with every discount book you buy from their website, they'll plant a tree. Not a bad deal at all. In the past, they've even done tree-planting drives through the group.
3. Hotspex
Who said marketing research has no conscious? This company specializes in advising companies on how to green their products. And if you join the Hotspex Facebook Group, they'll plant a tree with your 'name' on it.
4. Mysterious, Nameless, and Generous Carbon Offsetting Group
Okay, so this strange, ostensibly British green group has no name. But for every 25 people who join, its administrators have pledged to donate 1 British Pound to a charity fighting climate change.
5. The Green Library
The Green Library has a interesting charge: to document all significant events, activities, literature, and projects that contribute to the pursuit of sustainability in libraries everywhere. Show your local book-lender some love and join the Green Library Facebook group. Plus, the group's administrator has a killer 'stache.
