If you’re used to supermarket shopping but have decided to have an organic veg box delivered as one of your green resolutions for 2008, you may be in for a few surprises. There are some fruits and vegetables that may turn up in your veg box that you’ve never seen before, and will have you …
Even gearheads can go green. That’s the news from the EcoModder.com forum where users share tips and inspire one another to take their vehicles to greener heights. High performance isn’t about speed when you’re an Ecomodder, it’s about miles per gallon, and these guys (and girls) are using mods and tweaks like weight reduction, better …
Now you can make love with an eye on fair play with a French Letter condom. The rubber used to make the condoms is FSC certified and is traded fairly through the Fair Deal Trading supply chain. A royalty from each pack of French Letter condoms goes to ensuring that fair wages are paid to …
Purveyors of the cream of Dutch design, Dutch By Design bring us this cute mobile dolls house made of 100% recycled cardboard. The house has 8 secret rooms, stair openings, spy holes and an attic for storage, and it is blue on the outside and red on the inside, armadilloes. Perfect for children to take …
Father and son team Colin and Carrick have been making videos with a green message and posting them up on YouTube. Here’s one with a message for us grown-ups, it’s time to take action before we get into trouble with the kids. Just remember, one day they’ll be grown-ups too.
QuantumShift.tv is asking “What will you do for the planet in 2008?” Put your answer into video format (no more than 2 minutes long) and enter their “New Year’s Eco-reSOLUTIONS 2008” contest to win loads of cool eco-stuff. Uploaded your video anytime between now and midnight EST on January 15, 2008 and winners will be …
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As an avid Green Thing fan, I’d like to share their latest video that has me feeling rather tickled. My favourite bit is the end where James says: “But I’m already thing about the next one. The big one… the town centre car park in Woking!” I live near Woking and have been known to …
‘Jungle celebrity’ and avid recycler Anna Ryder Richardson has joined forces with Recycle now to launch 2008’s annual Woodland Trust Christmas Card Recycling Scheme. A target of 100 million cards has been set by the Woodland Trust and Recycle Now, which will mean 24,000 trees can be planted, saving 2,600 tonnes of CO2 equivalent greenhouse …
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I remember this option as one of the green features offered by CIS eco car insurance when they launched about 18 months ago, but their green insurance option seems to have disappeared, so Allianz Insurance may be right when they say they’re “the first in the UK to give motor policyholders the choice of using …