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I’ve been playing around for a while with the Greenbar toolbar. In a nutshell, I highly recommend it for keeping up with green news of all sorts; I expect to use it daily. You can download it at http://www.greenbartoolbar.com/

Here it is in my Firefox browser; it’s also available for IE.

I think the best parts of the Greenbar are the dropdown lists of blogs, sites, and feeds.

The image below  shows the blog list dropdown, where I have it open to the Living Green topic and it shows over a dozen blogs on the topic. (I plan to submit my blog there as soon as I finish writing this!) I noticed that the blog opens in your current tab or window. The sites and feeds dropdowns work in the same way.

I was pleased to see that feeds list… my Google Reader is already so full of feeds that I’m reluctant to add more. This dropdown will give me an easy way to skim.

The toolbar has some other features as well. First on the bar is a search box which does a Google search. I searched the word sustainability and noticed that the first seven listings were paid listings, so the regular organic search listings just barely began at the bottom of my screen. I opened a new tab and used my regular Google search bar, which showed nothing before it started on the regular listings. So I am guessing that this may be how the toolbar creators can monetize their bars.

If you click on the + sign on the far left of the Greenbar you’ll see a bunch of other toolbars that weren’t on green topics. Think I’ll stick with the Greenbar! It did take a little self-control to not even glance at the “time wasters.”

Other features of the Greenbar include Twitter and Facebook dropdowns. I tried the Twitter one and you can stretch it out so the tweets are on one line each. Seems to give you about a dozen of them. This won’t stop my addiction to Tweetdeck for my main twittering, but I may use it now and then.

There are also a variety of other odds and ends you may find useful. I added a couple of the gadgets to the toolbar and then couldn’t figure out how to get rid of one I didn’t want.

So to sum it up, whether your interest in the world of green information is serious or casual, this is a very useful tool.  Its  download link  is http://www.greenbartoolbar.com/