The key to a green lifestyle is making conscious choices to use sustainable and safe, toxin-free products. There are many handy pocket guides available that can help you on the go. In addition to the traditional folded cards, you can get advice right through your cell phone!
The AZA Green Scientific Advisory Group has provided a list of pocket guides that cover consumer products to action steps you can take to lead a healthier life for yourself and the environment.
Start with Huddler's Green Home Guide to Pocket Guides and then check out these additional resources:
Seafood
Environmental Defense Fund Seafood Selector
Pocket Selectors for general seafood and sushi
Monterey Bay Aquarium Seafood Watch
Excellent fact sheets for many popular seafood species
Shedd Aquarium Right Bite
Also identifies fish high in mercury
World Wildlife Fund guides
Guides for France, Hong Kong, Germany, Spain, Finland, Denmark, Norway, Switzerland, Netherlands, Sweden, Poland, Belgium, Indonesia, and South Africa
Consumer Products
National Geographic Green Guide: Plastic Water Bottles
Describes the plastics indicated by the number in the recycling symbol, how they are used and which ones to avoid.
ZRecs: BPA-free Plastics Guide
Sources for BPA-free feeding items and pacifiers for children.
Recycled Tissue and Toilet Paper Guide
Greenpeace ranks tissue paper on percentage post consumer content, total recycled content, and whether or not the paper is bleached.
Environmental Ratings on Household Tissue Paper Products
The NRDC also offers a guide on tissue paper. It is more comprehensive than GreenPeace's guide, but not designed as a wallet card.
Green Practices
Detroit Zoological Society Shades of Green Guide
Everyday things you can do to green your life
Lincoln Park Zoo Green Guide
Practical tips for greener living
Stanford University
Be greener -- in the home, at the store, on the road