As Earth Month draws to a close, here are some tools and resources to help web designers work greener. The people at StressDesign, a New York-based brand design company, released the Windpower Logo, a sleek logo representing wind power and green design, meaning that a site using that logo was developed and is maintained with green technology.

If you’re going green in your site hosting/design and want to utilize the Windpower Logo, you can get the full (Open Source!) deal here, at Windpowerlogo.com.  You can also be exceptionally nerdy and become a fan of the Windpower logo on Facebook.

Green web hosting is also becoming an in-demand resource for designers.  The key difference between regular web-hosting and green is mainly offset of energy use through carbon offset or wind energy, and housing the servers in a “green” location.  Web-Hosting Geeks has a good list of the Best Eco-friendly Web Hosting providers based on review, space, pricing, etc.

Drexel Libraries has some interesting books for website and graphic designers wishing to go green.  Everything from what type of ink to request from commercial printers to what source of energy should power your site servers can be found in these and other resources:

• Eco design : the sourcebook / Alastair Fuad-Luke.
• Green graphic design / by Brian Dougherty ; with Celery Design Collaborative.
• Green technology and design for the environment / Samir B. Billatos, Nadia A. Basaly.

And if you’re just looking for a good, thought-provoking to round out Earth Month, check out any of the following:

• Hot, flat, and crowded : why we need a green revolution– and how it can renew America / Thomas L. Friedman.
• As the world burns : 50 simple things you can do to stay in denial / Derrick Jensen and Stephanie McMillan.
• Eco-warriors : understanding the radical environmental movement / Rik Scarce ; foreword by David Brower.