Continental manufacturers commit to greening their products

by Tracy StokesThe Environment and BusinessPosted on No Comments

Edie reports today that following a pilot scheme sponsored by the European Commission, two large continental manufacturers will be carrying on their good work and working towards a more sustainable future. Finnish phone colossus Nokia and French hypermarket chain Carrefour have both voluntarily committed to find new ways to reduce the environmental impacts of some …

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Future London

by Tracy StokesSustainable LifestylePosted on No Comments

You’ve got a few more days to get down to the Future London interactive experience at the Science Museum. The experience, subtitled Footprints of a Generation, is a chance for Londoners to find out what is being done to move London into a greener and brighter future. Admission is free and the exhibition will be …

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School uniforms go green

by Tracy StokesEcoFashion, EcoKids, Sustainable LifestylePosted on 3 Comments

A little late for the “back to school” uniform buying frenzy, but sites to note for future use none the less. Clean Slate are a supplier of fairtrade and organic school uniform, working with schools and encouraging co-operative buying to reduce costs. Well worth a look, and why not let your children’s school know about …

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£2million textile recycling facility opens in London

by Tracy StokesEcoFashion, RecyclingPosted on One Comment

Chris Carey’s Collections has officially opened a new £2million textile recycling facility in Beckenham effectively doubling its capacity for recycling, and enabling the company to secure contracts to recycle all staff uniforms for Homebase and Argos. The new facility will receive clothes from over 2000 SMEs, community groups, local authorities and charity shops, hand sort …

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Carnival of the Green #46

by Tracy StokesSustainable LifestylePosted on 6 Comments

Hello there and welcome to the 46th weekly Carnival of the Green. We’re proud to be hosting the carnival for the second time and would like to thank City Hippy and Triple Pundit (founders of aforementioned carnival) for the great honour. Thanks also to Karavans for a tip-top carnival last week. Enough with the niceties …

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British Food Fortnight: a celebration of local food

by Tracy StokesEcoFoodPosted on No Comments

Today marks the start of the 5th annual British Food Fortnight, a celebration of the diversity of locally produced food. Now, more than ever, we need to be looking at eating food that has been produced on our own shores, to prevent unnecessary foodmiles, bolster the local economy and protect our native food producers for …

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S4 – Sustainability Trends in Fashion

by Guest ContributorEcoFashion, Fair Trade, Sustainable Lifestyle, The Environment and BusinessPosted on No Comments

The 3 R’s of the green movement – reduce, reuse, recycle – are moving over for S4 – substance, sexiness, style and sustainability. Summer Rayne Oakes and SRO have recently launched S4, an industry newsletter reporting on fashion sustainability trends. It’s packed full of fantastic images and articles – more of a fashion magazine that …

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First U.S. organic chocolate factory in Seattle

by Guest ContributorEcoFood, Fair Trade, Sustainable LifestylePosted on 5 Comments

Seattle, WA boasts the first organic/fair-trade chocolate factory in the United States. Theo Chocolate took over an old brewery in the Fremont district of the Pacific Northwest city last January. It is a small operation compared to its mega (non-organic) counterparts, which produce the confection for companies like Hershey’s and Nestle. Theo founder, Joel Whinney …

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