Jo Wood Organics is an award winning, certified organic range of fragrance, bath and body care products founded by eco pioneer and rock chick Jo Wood. Jo Wood Organics is offering a fantastic 20% Discount off all products via Allthingseco until 12 March PLUS, you’ll also be entered into a competition to win a Free Usiku Luxury Gift Set.
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Taking place on 16th and 17th April 2010, in Olympia Two, London, UK AWARE is the UK’s only green and ethical lifestyle exhibition, and will bring together 200 exhibitors, 15,000 visitors, 100 low carbon vehicles and over 50 world class guest speakers.
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field is a rare innovation encompassing the talents of Thinking Flowers? and Ribbon Tank. This is the first time these two young female entrepreneurs will come together and they will be the first in a series of endeavors from the pioneering Space Makers project. The project aims to build the market into a destination full of surprising and unique shops which will draw visitors from across London…
Back in September, wewow launched a unique media packaging design competition seeking to promoting creative, sustainable design to students, graduates and designers. The Bradford-based company have today announced the winner of the design contest; Sun Park, a post-graduate student from Central St Martins College, London.
Sales of products rose 12% last year – outpacing the wider market – but at £800m still remain a fraction of the overall amount of money spent by consumers in the UK. The Fairtrade Foundation said the rise in sales showed that consumers had remained “staunchly loyal” last year. Even so, conditions for producers in the developing countries that supply the fair trade products were “desperate”, the organisation said.
The Soil Association’s new Holiday Organic web directory is the perfect place to track down a fantastic rural hideaway this summer. Run in conjunction with www.organicholidays.co.uk, the online directory and paperback that guides your through eco friendly accommodation whether it be B&B, Farm Stays, Small Hotels or Restaurants throughout the UK (and worldwide), ……
Good Energy has a long history of campaigning to help grow renewable generation in the UK. We’re really proud that one in every 25 of our customers generates their own renewable power and we’re committed to getting the best deal for them. For several years we were part of the campaign to get a feed-in-tariff – or FiT- to reward renewable generators with a payment for their electricity….
Whilst organic food is very strictly and extremely well regulated in the UK, not enough is being done to highlight the fact that this, unfortunately, is not the case for non-food products. Under current legislation, manufacturers are able to get away with describing non-food products as “organic” even if they contain only a tiny percentage of an organic “ingredient”. Beauty and textiles products are amongst the most common culprits for exploiting this legal loophole.
At what is a very difficult time for magazines and newspapers, one magazine is significantly bucking the trend of falling sales, subscribers and advertising revenue. Permaculture Magazine is seeing it sales rise and rise as more and more people seek out what they can do themselves to be more self reliant and to save themselves money. Things only look set to grow further for the ground breaking and Queen’s Award winning publication as permaculture is set …
The Sustainable Restaurant Association laucnhes to make UK restaurants global leaders in sustainability.
Almost 70% of British diners think that restaurants aren’t doing enough to tackle social and environmental issues with a similar number saying that they are more likely to go to a restaurant that was, according to a survey carried out by the Sustainable Restaurant Association (SRA). The survey results combined with feedback gathered by the SRA over the last six months from industry players …
Although women-owned businesses are on the increase there still aren’t enough female role models, is the claim of the leading women’s organisation, Women on Their Way.
Most people still think that the majority of businesses are run by men due to the stereotypical images that we see all around us. That’s why Tabitha Potts is delighted to be short-listed for the prestigious National Women on Their Way Awards 2010 in the Online Business Award category.
James Cameron didn’t initially pitch “Avatar” as some embrace-your-inner-hippie ecological screed. And later, when Fox execs read the script, they were taken aback by the story’s deeply rooted connection to intertwined themes of environmentalism and spirituality. “When they read it, they sort of said, ‘Can we take some of this tree-hugging, “FernGully” crap out of this movie?’ ” Cameron told MTV News on February 17. “And I said, ‘No, because that’s why I’m making the film.’
Norwich is soon to have its first backpackers hostel, a whole new tourism market for the city and the next venture for father and son, Alister and Jason Borthwick. The team behind the award winning, eco-friendly tourism facilities at Deepdale Farm on the north Norfolk coast, are in the process of developing a hostel in the centre of Norwich, having just purchased the somewhat derelict Ferry Boat Inn on King St.
Design-savvy children (or their parents) can now fulfil their interior decoration desires with a special high-end wallpaper range designed especially for them. Printed with non-toxic water-based inks on to the finest quality, super strong wallpaper (made from sustainably-sourced materials), this is eco-friendly wallpaper at its most detailed and dramatic.
The Yarner Trust is dedicated to sustainable and creative living through a programme of educational events covering rural skills, smallholding, sustainable building and wildlife. And there’s really good news from the Yarner Trust in Welcombe this year to lift your spirits and welcome in the spring.
