It’s not often that you get to equate reward shopping with ethical consumerism, but here’s your chance. With moreeco, everytime you spend money on greener insurance (ibuyeco or the green insurance co), a train ticket (the trainline), green roadside rescue (eta), green energy (good energy), or a variety of green and ethical online department stores, …
Nigel’s Eco Store, purveyors of all things lovely and green, have announced the winners of the first every Nigel’s 2008 Green Web Awards. I was delighted when Nigel asked me to be one of the judges (who wouldn’t be pleased to be included in a list of judges so green, so esteemed). And then imagine …
This is a guest post by Elaine Dutton of Pure Design, a social enterprise and online eco-design gallery. Her mission is to promote sustainable design and designers in the UK by providing a platform from which designers can show and sell their work, and encourages exchange of eco-design knowledge between established and emerging eco-design talent. …
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It’s hard to tell when the ‘zero waste’ bug hit the UK, but the earliest blog that I can find on the subject is the Cambridge Zero Waste Challenge. Some Cambridge city councillors volunteered to put themselves and their families through the rigorous exercise of seeing just how little they could put into their black …
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What started out as the Sierra Club‘s solution to giving useful and entertaining answers to their magazine reader’s questions ended up being published earlier as a guidebook on how to live a more eco-friendly lifestyle. Hey Mr. Green column writer Bob Schildgen discovered after a couple of years of writing his column in the Sierra …
Anna Shepard is no granola-munching hippie. She’s the hip and stylish green girl next door who writes the Eco-Worrier column for the Sunday Times, the Eco-Worrier blog, and she’s just published a new book, How Green Are My Wellies? Anna comes from a family of frugal women, and so took to eco-living like a duck …