Lion Brand Yarn is offering a free knitting pattern for an eco-friendly shopping bag inspired by their Lion Organic Cotton yarn. The bag is stretchy — it holds a TON of stuff but collapses easily. Lion Organic Cotton is not dyed, but grows naturally in brown, green and white! PLEASE NOTE: you will have to …
Don’t skip it! Recycle it! Whether you’re a builder, merchant or DIY enthusiast, this site will tickle your fancy. What Do I Do With This (or WDIDWT.com) can help you go green by making sure that your unused and unwanted building materials are used by someone else and don’t just end up in landfill. And …
The Ethical Superstore is supporting Fairtrade Fortnight by offering free delivery on all orders that include their exclusive Fairtrade Fortnight Kit. The kit contains £20s worth of Fairtrade products for just £13.50 including tea, coffee, chocolate, snack bars, cotton wool, a copy of New Consumer magazine and more. To claim free delivery when you place …
Caring about the planet doesn’t have to be about making life harder. It can be easy. Take this clever little gadget from The Carbon Neutral Company for instance; the Intelliplug looks like a standard 3-way adaptor, but behaves very differently indeed. You plug your PC into the “master” socket on the plug, and two peripherals …
Fairtrade Fortnight 2007 starts today, 26 February, and continues until 11th March 2007. The theme of this year’s campaign is Change today, choose Fairtrade. A number of events are being held during the two weeks all over the UK, have a look at the listings here. And you can enter a competition to have your …
Author/activist Bill McKibben is calling on Americans to rally together on April 14th to get their elected officials to take notice (and then take action) on climate change. Instead of bringing together the masses for a march on Washington (very carbon intensive), McKibben has started Step it up 2007 as an organizing hub for rallies …
How many of us are aware of the inbuilt power saving features on our PCs? And how many of us use them? EcoStreet forum member Solomon does, and he can tell us how to do it too. — Your PC has several built in power modes, each of which will turn off the PC/monitor/hard drives …
The BBC presents “Climate Challenge”, a game where you are president of the European Nations and must tackle climate change AND stay popular enough with the voters to remain in office. Up to the challenge? Earth’s future is in your hands. Play now. Thanks to Al for the tip.
I read with interest a recent article in The Independent titled: Saving the Planet – Empty Gestures. Here is the first paragraph of that article: At Christmas I was given a copy of the book of the film An Inconvenient Truth, by the American politician Al Gore. It was from two people. One of them …
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