Treehugger’s Valentine’s Day Guide: 50 Ways to Please Your Lover gives Valentine’s Day a green makeover. If you are looking for love, Treehugger suggests trying Green Passions online dating for greenies or a night out at Green Drinks. For the couples out there, a romantic evening in watching sexy treehugger Leonardo DiCaprio in Romeo & …
It’s showtime! Welcome to the 13th edition of Carnival of the Green, the weekly compendium of eco-friendly and sustainable blog posts from the green blogosphere. Thank you to City Hippy and Triple Pundit for getting it started, and thanks also to Urban Eco for hosting a truly massive Carnival last week. London features BIG this …
For the month of February Organic-Ally is offering 10% off all organic string bag bundles online. Siew Peng from Organic-Ally says: “Except for those bags which have been burned (releasing harmful dioxins into the environment) every plastic bag that has been manufactured is still in existence, either in some landfill or clogging up some waterway, …
The EcoStreet Blog is proud to be hosting next Monday’s Carnival of the Green. See this week’s offering here. Carnival of the Green was established in November 2005 by City Hippy and Triple Pundit, and has travelled from one green blog to another every week since then with a summary of the offerings by green …
Here’s a new way to freecycle. On Green Gonzo you can search for what you need where and when you need it. It’s a bit like eBay, except everything is being given away for free. The aim of the game being to reduce waste and promote the re-use of goods and materials, with the desirable …
Christmas is over and what are you going to be doing with all of those old Christmas cards? According to recycle now 1 in 5 people just throw their Christmas cards in the bin. This year you can help the Woodland Trust by recycling old Christmas cards before the end of January 2006. Take them …
I’ve been invited to a baby shower on Saturday and been told that the parents-to-be really don’t need any more clothes for the soon expected bundle of joy. So while thinking through practical alternative options for gifts I hit on the idea of an “Eco-Friendly Baby Sample Pack”, a green version of what Bounty and …
Our old kettle packed up last week and we’ve got ourselves a new kettle. The marvellous Eco Kettle. It is estimated that on average we boil twice as much water as we need when we’re making ourselves a cup of tea. That means 3kW (energy needed to light 50 lightbulbs) ever time you boil it. …
Caught the Dragon’s Den on BBC2 last night. For those of you that don’t know, this is a programme where potential entrepreneurs set themselves up for a fall. The idea of the programme is that there are 5 dragons (sucessful business people) prepared to offer up to £100K to businesses they feel have potential, for …