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Go Even Greener!

Even Greener have been working harder than ever to bring you products selected for their “green” credentials including recycling aids, composting bins and water saving products.

Many of their products will allow you to reduce your carbon footprint and lead a more environmentally sustainable lifestyle.

We have been working harder than ever to bring you products selected for their “green” credentials including recycling aids, composting bins and water saving products.

Many of our products will allow you to reduce your carbon footprint and lead a more environmentally sustainable lifestyle.

If you are interested in a greener life, make sure to check out one of EcoTrendSpotter’s favourite sites bemoreeco.com and read about some of the most interesting pieces of eco news and commentary.

Remember if you shop via MoreEco today they will give 500 start up bonus points! Plus you can earn from 8 points for every pound spent with Even Greener.

Back to School Eco Shopping Guide

The team at Eco Trend Spotter have put together a list of eco items you may wish to take with you on your summer eco holidays this year.

If you are going abroad or staying at home we think that these items will be essential in making your eco holiday fun and relaxing.

There are 5 parts to search so take a look;

The team at EcoTrendSpotter are glad to report there are lots of options for eco-friendly back to school supplies, and the amount out there is growing steadily. We have put together a list of eco items you may wish purchase for your kids who will be on their way back to school very soon.

There are 5 parts to search so take a look;

Part 1 – School Uniforms
Part 2 – Stationery
Part 3 – School Bags
Part 4 – Lunch
Part 5 – Electronics

The team at BeMoreEco have also gone through its post archive and have come up with a few post that you may find helpful.

Summer Eco Travel Essentials – Part 2 Eco Washbag

In Part 1 of Eco Trend Spotter’s Summer Eco Travel Essentials series we looked at Eco Travel Gadgets. However, in Part 2, we have looked at what you need to include in you holiday washbag.

Eco Holiday Washbag

We have selected a few key eco items you need to include in preparation for your travels, even if you are staying in the UK.

Weekender Waikiki fair trade Washbag

Whether it’s an overnight stay or your annual holiday, take all of your toiletries away with you in style with this traditional wash bag. This fair trade wash bag is made from 100% cotton woven on traditional handlooms. The factory in India is fully SA8000 accredited, an international certification guaranteeing workers’ rights, pay and conditions. It also guarantees that no children or indentured workers are used. The factory supports a local orphanage, so your purchase really does help a third world village in a direct way. The Wash bag benefits from a waterproof lining

£14.00 form Biomelifestyle

Green People Sun Lotion Spf15 with Tan Accelerator

Voted ‘Best Sun Protection’ by Natural Health & Beauty magazine. 3 layers of sun protection in one – UV protection, antioxidants & sun tan accelerator! This natural sun lotion is made without Parabens, Lanolin, phthalates, artificial perfumes, petrochemicals and colourants to bring you the purest sunscreen that nature can offer. If you have children why not try out Green People’s Organic Babies range.

£16.30 at Green People (Special Offer: Save £5.60 when you buy 200ml Sun Lotion SPF15 & 50ml SPF 22)

£14.00 at Green People (Special Offer: Buy No Scent Children’s Sun Lotion and get a mini Lavender one FREE)

John Masters Organics Rose & Aloe Hydrating Toning Mist

Contains active ingredients that tone and hydrate the skin: essential oil of rose to stimulate blood circulation, oat kernel to improve the skin’s defense against pollution and reduce inflammation, plus the valuable anti-oxidants from white tea.

• rose flower oil – soothes sensitive skin

• oat kernel – stimulates collagen production; revitalizing

• ylang ylang – antiseptic; nourshing

• white tea – anti-bacterial; defends against oil-causing bacteria

• aspen bark – new all-natural preservative

£21.00 from Love Lula

Balinese herbal Lulur natural soap

If you’ve had a hard day lying on the beach or hiking natural forests, this exotic soap will help ease your stresses and strains. The lular hand-crushed spice mix used to make this soap is traditionally applied to the legs after long days spent working in the rice paddies, and now you can experience the soothing properties in your own home of on your eco holiday. Made by a small cooperative in Bali where the members of the cooperative benefit directly from every bar sold/

£4.00 from BiomeLifestyle

Organic Toothpaste & Mouthwash

Combine Organic Toothpaste and Mouthwash for complete oral hygiene. Choose from traditional mint or fennel which is safe for homœopathy treatment – SLS Free, Alcohol free & Fluoride Free organic toothpaste & mouthwash. Try them out… They taste great and contain organic ingredients!

£6.74 from SoOrganic when brought together

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Weekender Waikiki fair trade Washbag

£14.00 from Biomelifestyle

Green People Sun Lotion Spf15 with Tan Accelerator

£16.30 at Green People (Special Offer: Save £5.60 when you buy 200ml Sun Lotion SPF15 & 50ml SPF 22)

£14.00 (Organic Babies) at Green People (Special Offer: Buy No Scent Children’s Sun Lotion and get a mini Lavender one FREE)

John Masters Organics Rose & Aloe Hydrating Toning Mist

rose flower oil – soothes sensitive skin
oat kernel – stimulates collagen production; revitalizing
ylang ylang – antiseptic; nourshing
white tea – anti-bacterial; defends against oil-causing bacteria
aspen bark – new all-natural preservative

£21.00 from Love Lula

Balinese herbal Lulur natural soap

If you’ve had a hard day lying on the beach or hiking natural forests, this exotic soap will help ease your stresses and strains.

The lular hand-crushed spice mix used to make this soap is traditionally applied to the legs after long days spent working in the rice paddies, and now you can experience the soothing properties in your own home of on your eco holiday. Made by a small cooperative in Bali where the members of the cooperative benefit directly from every bar sold/

£4.00 from BiomeLifestyle

Green People Organic Toothpaste & Mouthwash

A natural toothpaste with traditional peppermint flavour. Ideal for sensitive teeth and gums, and suitable for all the family.

Peppermint flavour
Excellent cleaning properties
Antibacterial and anti-microbial action
Suitable for people with bleeding gums
No hydrocarbon or aluminium contamination

This natural toothpaste is made without Fluoride, Triclosan, Sorbitol, Parabens, phthalates, artificial sweeteners, petrochemicals and colourants to bring you the purest toothpaste that nature can offer.

£6.74 from SoOrganic when brought together

Organic Surge Fresh Ocean Shower Gel

Shower gel with a light refreshing scent. This body wash is a happy blend of 99% naturally derived ingredients and certified organic extracts. Rosemary stimulates cell renewal while lemon and lime revive your skin and senses.

For happy-ever-after skin – fresh ocean shower gel gently cleanses and moisturises your body while our organic essential oil fragrance blend transports you to early morning on a warm, distant shore. Organic Surge products are cleverly developed with no nasties or obscure chemicals for your precious skin to absorb.

£4.90 at Luxury Organic Skin Care

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1001 Ways You Can Save The Planet – Joanna Yarrow

Is it a bird? Is it a plane? No, it’s the Joanna Yarrow book that will turn everyone into a superhero saving the planet.

Do my shopping and eating habits really affect the health of the planet? What is biodiversity and what can I do to support it? What are greenhouse gases and are they affecting our climate? Can I conserve enery around the home and save money at the same time? These questions and countless more are answered in the helpful suggestions presented in Joanna Yarrow’s book, 1001 Ways You Can Save the Planet.

A decade ago “recycling” was a mystery to many but today a new “three Rs” (reduce, reuse, recycle) is mainstream wisdom. A truly modern lifestyle means that you consider the most environmentally sound option before you clean, shop, cook, eat, relax, travel, and more. Whether it be in your home and garden, your workplace or community, the ultra-concise explanations, amazing facts and everyday nuggets of sage advice offered in this compact companion will capture your imagination and sharpen your desire to make your significant contribution.

And who ever said that changing your way of living should not be great fun or less than straightforward? 1001 Ways You Can Save the Planet banishes piety and offers a positive and uplifting treasure trove of environmental advice, from the benefits of becoming a beekeeper to simple but easily overlooked measures such as re-using your birthday candles, avoiding stand-by mode on electrical appliances, drinking water from the main supply rather than bottled mineral water, skipping the weekend shave and putting a brick in the bathroom cistern.

A portable collection of explanations and insights as well as brilliant yet simple practical ideas that will have a real ecological impact.
Shows how being an eco-champion in your home, your work and your neighbourhood can also benefit you individually – making you feel better and even saving you money.
Explains how you can exercise consumer power to enhance global well-being – by rewarding companies and organizations that try to behave ethically and responsibly.
Offers a positive “doer’s” program of moderate and realistic measures and an appendix of essential contacts.

About the Author: Joanna Yarrow is a consultant, writer and broadcaster dealing with green lifestyle issues, she is the green expert for This Morning and contributes to a number of other television shows and publications. Joanna Yarrow is a founding director of Beyond Green a strategic consultancy who help a range of clients turn green principals into reality. Specialising in helping people understand environmental principles and apply them in their own lives, Joanna has a masters degree in sustainable development

These are available from BigGreenSmile for £7.99.

Plus earn 55 MoreEco points and also offset 13.9 kg’s of carbon for free.

Best Eco Gadget 2008 Winner

Last month BeMoreEco listed the nominations for Best Eco Gadget in The Vodafone Pocket-lint Gadget Awards.

The awards, decided by the UK’s top technology and gadget journalists from online and print, let you the consumer know what the best camera, satnav, music gadget, laptop, software, video game, home cinema device, mobile phone, email device, and eco gadgets are.

This year it was tougher than ever with the nominations drawn from over 600 products released in the last year with the usual suspects not even getting a look in on some of the categories.

So who was the winner of the Best Eco Gadget catagory. We can confirm it was Pure for its move to more friendly green practices and packaging. The runner up was Roberts solarDAB radio. Both of these products were spotted by the Eco Trend Spotter team.

For a list of shops which sell the Best Eco Gadgets <click here>

Jo Wood Amka Organic Eau de Toilette 50ml

Jo wood has come up trumps again by creating this fantastic addition to her Jo Wood organic beauty range. Don’t tell the wife, but I brought her one for Christmas.

This delightful Amka Eau de Toilette from Jo Wood Organics is a sophisticated blend with carefully composed top, middle and base notes. ‘Amka’ is Swahili for ‘to wake’, which is reflected in this scent’s deep, fresh aroma, with the romantic heart of Iranian rose otto and Egyptian jasmine, and bright top layers of neroli and bergamot. Green mandarin and sweet orange blossom add a more vibrant layer above a soft and spicy base of cedarwood.

Jo Woods’ fragrances are officially certified organic by EcoCert; with each containing 95% organic ingredients. The remaining 5% of ingredients are of natural origin too, from accredited and audited sources. Better still, all Jo Wood Organics packaging is recyclable; everything from the bottles and pumps down to the labels are formally approved by ECOCERT, helping us all to work to protect the environment.

This organic eau de toilette retails for £35.95 at ethical superstore.

Candela lights Eco Lighting

We are mainly parents in the Eco Trend Spotter office and a wide range children ages. However we all have the same problem. When our kids go to bed they like us to leave the lights on. Now that’s the problem, it’s not an eco friendly solution.

Therefore that is why the Eco Trend Spotter Team love Candela lights. Candela lights provide a warm, ambient glow and are the eco-friendly alternative to candles with their long-life rechargeable batteries. The Candeloo lamps are great for use in kids’ rooms as well as other colourful locations. Patented, intelligent circuitry makes them illuminate automatically when lifted from the charging platter, and start to recharge as soon as they’re put back, making sure that they are available as and when you need them.

>>>Candela Eco Friendly lights can in varoius colours. They retail at £49.99 from Ethical Superstore. However for November only ECOutlet are offering 10% off this.

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100% Biodegradable Leaf Sack

Now this is a great, yet simple eco idea which is going to stop people having sweep up leave several times over the coming weeks. Falling autumn leaves might be regarded as a chore, but to 1kg gardeners they are a source of rich nutrients for the forthcoming spring planting.

Not everyone has a compost bin and if you do, it might not be big enough to accommodate the huge amount of leaves which one small tree can produce. Our loose weave jute sack can hold thousands of fallen leaves. Once filled simply leave them in a corner of the garden. The leaves and the sack will biodegrade and you will have, that corner stone of green gardening, wonderful compost.

These retail at ecotopia for £4.99 (3 pack)

Hedgerow Herbals ZZZ Bath Bag

After a busy day of Eco Trend Spotting I like to go home and take it easy. However sometimes my mind is still activity about all the latest items I have spotted and need to write about. As a result i find it hard to get to sleep.

Then I discovered the Organic Hedgerow Herbals ZZZ bath Bag. Hedgerow Herbals herbal bath bags contain organic hops and valerian, both used extensively in the treatment of insomnia, calming lemon balm and oats with demulcents good for skin care. Scented with pure lavender essential oil.

Ingredients: *Avena sativa (oatmeal), †melissa officinalis (lemon balm), †humulus lupulus (hops), *valeriana officinalis (valerian), lavendula angustifolia (lavender essential oil).
*Certified organic herbs. †Wildcrafted organic herbs.

Directions: Steep the bath bag in hot running bath water and relax in the bath for ten minutes. (If a stronger infusion is preferred, put bag in a teapot, add boiled water, let stand for 5 minutes and add all to bath water.)

Other Organic Hedgerow Herbal Bath Bags are

Hedgerow Herbals MMM Bath Bag - Mmm! Need to chill out? Calm down and relax.

Hedgerow Herbals OWW Bath Bag - Oww. Aching all over? Relax…right down to the bones.

Hedgerow Herbals OOO Bath Bag - Ooo. Company Tonight? …get ready to party.

£4.40 for 3 x 10g biodegradable bath bags from Big Green Smile.

Recycled Iron Wok

At Eco Trend Spotter, we like to cooking and the weekly organic stir fry’s is a must. Now to boost our eco credentials further Biomelifestyle have launched this range of eco-luxury cookware is made from 75% recycled cast iron. The pans are literally ‘naked’ and free from enamel or tefal coating, which often chips over time reducing the lifetime of the pan. This also means that no chemical substances are released, even when the pan is heated to over 300degrees Celsius. Instead, the oxide film produced naturally on the surface prevents the pan from rusting and also offers a non-stick surface which is great for cooking.

These eco pans are made using a traditional Japanese artisan craft combined with modern design and are proving to be highly popular in Japan with two leading restaurants converting all their pans to the range. This is due to the fact that the food cooks quicker, retains the flavours of the food and the pans heat is evenly distributed.

Restaurants are then able to save on cooking time, but also less gas or electricity energy when cooking, enabling the restaurant to take positive steps towards being environmentally conscious. Not forgetting recycled cast iron is used in manufacture and they are recyclable as well! They can also be used in the oven or on the hob, providing the ultimate versatility.

The pans are made with care, consideration and most importantly developed to ‘last a lifetime’.

They can be purchased for £150.00 from BiomeLifestle.