Latest Green Listings

If you would like to be listed in the EcoStreet directory, submit your link here. It’s FREE. — Our latest listing is Naturebotts, selling eco-friendly mother and baby products. They are stockists of Moltex Oko eco-disposable nappies, biodegradable wipes and nappy sacks, organic baby toiletries and sun protection, and Natracare feminine hygiene products. All Foods …

Are You a Green Driver?

From 2008 in the UK an new eco-driving test to improve fuel efficiency will be included when you take your driving test. The Dutch already have this test in place with their “New Driving” programme, and estimate that fuel usage can be cut by a third if drivers drive more efficiently. Find out whether you …

Mad* Show Tickets Now On Sale

Mad* are very pleased to announce that tickets to The Mad* Show are now available to buy from our website at www.themadshow.co.uk. The tickets are valid for any one day of the show, so you don’t have to decide yet which day you want to come and you can save money and beat the queues …

How Much Do You Know About Global Warming?

We’ve all heard about global warming, and it is a real concern for many of us. But how much do you really know about it? Enviromental Defense has put together a 10-question quiz about global warming for you to test your knowledge. You can calculate your impact on the earth at Environmental Defense’s Fight Global …

Working Together to Compile a Good Food Guide

The Guardian is compiling a Good Food Guide covering as many good food sources in the British Isles that they can find, and to make the guide as comprehensive as possible, is asking for tips from readers. To get involved, leave a comment on their website with your pick of favourite organic shops, box schemes, …

Huge Impact of Reducing Packaging

Nature’s Path produce a range of organic breakfast cereals in Canada. They claim to have always been concerned about their use of packaging. To that extent, they offer bulk packs of most of their cereal products and always use recycled cardboard to package them. One of their latest sustainability initiative includes resizing their cereal boxes …

People Tree in Topshop

Organic and fairtrade clothing retailer, People Tree, have a concession in Topshop, Oxford Street in London until mid-June 2006. They’ve reworked some of the People Tree archive for their exclusive Topshop collection, and you can also buy their current catalogue fashions in the store. If you’d like to visit People Tree in Topshop, look for …

The Sounds of the Rainforest

Seven Baka pygmies, who form the musical group Baka Gbine (pronounced “bee-nay”), have arrived in the UK to bring awareness to the plight of their rainforest in Cameroon. They will be giving live performances of their album Gati Bongo, recorded under a giant tree on a mobile solar-powered studio and due to be released today. …

Eco-Friendly Email

I believe this to be the first of its kind, an environmentally friendly FREE online email service, powered by green energy. Communitymail.net is a ThinkHost socially responsible project, offering FREE webmail. Choose from yourname@communitymail.net, yourname@activist.cc, yourname@hippiemail.com or yourname@globaluprising.com and email your mates happy in the knowledge that it’s all being powered by 100% solar/wind power. …