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Green Cards – an eco twist on a timeless game

These beautifully designed eco friendly playing cards feature unique court card characters from original illustrations, and are the first playing cards to be made using only sustainable and recycled materials.

They are produced entirely in the UK so you can buy with the confidence of a low carbon footprint.

Made using:
# 50% recycled / 50% virgin paper from sustainable forests
# vegetable based inks

A fabulous gift that can be played with over and over again.

Makes a great gift or stocking filler.

>>> Available from Nigel’s Eco Store

>>> Price £3.99 + earn £0.27 MoreEco cash back

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Eco Gifts For Her

The team at EcoTrendSpotter have trawled through all the eco shops listed on MoreEco and have come up with their top ten eco Christmas gifts for her. They are;

Alpaca Fair Trade Slippers

Beautiful Fair Trade Cushion

Charm Pendant Necklace

Florence Weekender by Nv London Calcutta

Green People Festive Fix for Women

Manumit Silk Jewellery Roll

People Tree Christmas Socks

Roberts SolarDAB Radio – Pink

Silk Butterfly Nightie

Jo Woods Organics Gift Set

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Organic Christmas Chocolate Gifts

Organic chocolate all ways makes good Christmas gift, for family, and friend, the office or even for yourself!

Therefore this Christmas you should choose something from Green & Black’s range ofChristmas organic chocolate gift ideas which are exclusive to their online shop, and if you shop via MoreEco you will earn 4% Cash Back on all the chocolate you buy!

All of the organic Christmas chocolate gifts collections are carefully hand packed into beautiful and stylish gift boxes with inner gift wrap and hand tied with a Green & Black’s Christmas satin ribbon.

Below we have listed our favourite Green & Black’s Organic Chocolate Gift sets which suit every needs and occasion.

For the Wife/Husband – Ultimate Christmas Chocolate Hamper – £50.00 + £2.00 Cash Back
For your Mother – The Miniature Collection Library - £30.00 + £1.20 Cash Back
For your Father – The Miniature Collection & Beers – £12.00 + £0.48 Cash Back
For the Kids – Organic Advent Calendar & Miniatures – £34.00 + £1.36 Cash Back
For Christmas Day – Christmas After Dinner Collection – £16.00 + £0.64 Cash Back
For the Office – Christmas Sharing Collection – £30.00 + £1.20 Cash Back

Style Tips – 2009 top Christmas party dress trend by EQUA

It’s nearly November ladies, and that means only one thing – Christmas! Yay. The team at EQUA love this time of year. Of course, it’s a season all about giving and we love planning the perfect gifts to buy for everyone. But there’s definitely one self-indulgent highlight in the season – finding the perfect Christmas party dress of course!

2009 has been a fashion homage to the opulent Eighties, with the comeback of numerous Eighties trends, from outsized bows to towering platform heels to sequins scattered over everything we can get away with. Keep fashion’s current penchant for excessive details, playful silhouettes and vivid colours in mind when picking out your dress for the season’s Christmas celebrations. It’s definitely the hottest look of the year.

Pair overly-girly Eighties-style dresses with tough ankle boots to epitomise this season’s catwalk looks. Go body-con and channel Christophe Decarnin’s models at Balmain, or choose a prom shape in a mini length like ones seen at Luella. Either way, check the dress from every angle, and think what accessories you would complement it with; there’s nothing worse than buying a great dress and discovering that nothing in your wardrobe goes with it.

EQUAhas a host of ethically-made party dresses to pick from. New in is a capsule collection of one-off prom dresses by designer Tara Starlet, who recently starred in BBC3’s Blood, Sweat And T-Shirts, exclusively created by Tara just for EQUA. Tufts of taffeta jut out from structured waistlines in perfect party fashion. The feminine, sweetheart, strapless neckline is a modest way to show off some decolletage.

The plaid print version of this dress (pictured above) will make an unexpected, yet darling choice for any Christmas party. Play on the dress’s femininity by adding some elegant peep toe stilettos or, as suggested above, contrast the dress with some heavy ankle boots.

Blue is not an obvious choice to wear for the festive season, which is usually filled with reds, golds and LBDs. So, why not go against the grain and wow with this electric blue parachute dress by Debbi Little (pictured right)? The recycled parachute silk falls to the knee and comes with a separate net petticoat for masses of volume. In addition to getting our vote, this dress has the celebrity stamp of approval after being worn by style icon Daisy Lowe in The Observer Magazine Ethical Issue.

The bow dress by Sika wouldn’t look out of place on Lady Gaga thanks to the huge bow on the shoulder. The amazing detail is balanced out by the simplicity of the rest of the dress, resulting in an offbeat LBD with a twist. This is ideal for those who want to stand out whilst staying true to something classical and elegant. It’s available at Equa right now in black or green.

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Biome Eco Seed Crackers

Crackers, although good fun, can be such a waste. Therefore Biome Lifestyle exclusively brings you last Christmas bestseller the ‘Eco Cracker’!

The exterior of the cracker is formed from handmade seed paper. The paper is very unique as it contains seeds within the paper. So if you plant the paper, you will be left with beautiful wild flowers to remember your Christmas by instead of an overflowing dustbin!

Inside the cracker there will be a handy eco-tip and a small gift, which will range from a fantastic felt fair trade Christmas decoration, felt broach, finger puppets and fair trade key rings! The gifts are made by a small collective of wonderful women in a small backstreet of Kathmandu. They hand produce their own chemical free felt from just hand soap and hot water.

The social enterprise was established in 2003 in order to help many poor, vulnerable and socially excluded women through building their skills and providing opportunity to enhance their economic status and independence. The workers are provided with fair wages and work in a friendly, healthy, clean and safe environment.

The small co-operative has provided economic opportunities to 78 women and aim to develop and support further socially marginalised women. Also includes the usual ’snapper’ (to make the crackers bang!), joke and paper Christmas hat. Make your crackers worthwhile this Christmas and not another addition to landfill!

Stockist: Biome Lifestyle

Price:- £25.00

MoreEco Points: 173

Love Lula Luxury Chocolate Pamper Hamper Gift Set

This Love Lula Luxury Chocolate Pamper Hamper Gift Set contains;

Booja Booja Organic Champagne Truffles (150g)
A deeply luxurious truffle inebriated with organic Champagne packaged in a luxurious gold & black box.

Natural Magic Mini ‘Complete Bliss’ Organic Candle (approx 25 hours burn time)
Moroccan Blush Rose creates an unmistakably soft scent, created especially for those indulgent moments. Perfect for stressful times, headaches and pampering.

John Masters Organics Blood Orange & Vanilla Body Milk (236ml)
A luxurious organic body lotion which replenishes your skin with a quickly absorbing, delicate blend of milk thistle, aloe vera and essential oils of blood orange and vanilla. Smells divine!

Bod Bath Salts Sachet (125g)
For sensuous bath times, these salts encourage playfulness and love whilst uplifting your spirit.
Heyland & Whittle Bed of Roses Soap (120g)
Enriched with cocoa butter this mild but fragrant soap fills the room with heavenly scents for you to relax and enjoy.

John Masters Organics Lip Calm (4g)
Made of the finest in organic ingredients, John Masters Organics Lip Calm not only soothes and protects your lips from the weather, it rejuvenates your spirit!

This luxurious gift set is ideal for those special people you want to pamper that little bit more..

Stockist: Love Lula

Price: £62.50

MoreEco Points: 434

H Racer Hydrogen Car

The big boys in the Eco Trend Spotter play zone love big eco toys. The H Racer Hydrogen Car is a perfect example of what eco toys we like.

The H-racer is a futuristic toy car that contains one of the most exciting and advanced technologies of the 21st century. This car operates on 100% clean fuel produced by a miniature solar-powered hydrogen refueling station that converts water to hydrogen using energy captured from the sun.

The H-racer is the working miniature version of what is being developed in real-size cars of the future. This palm-size fuel cell car contains an onboard hydrogen storage tank, a fuel cell system connected to the carÆs electric motor, and a hydrogen refueling system linking the carÆs storage tank to an external hydrogen refueling station.

Given its small size, the H-racer is also very safe as only tiny quantities of hydrogen are sufficient to power the car.

Stockist: The Go Green Company & Ecotopia

Price: £74.99

MoreEco Points: 446

Bumper Recycled Christmas Wrapping Paper and Tags

In the Eco Trend Spotter Office we have large families. There wrapping paper is an important part of our Christmas planning. In some cases we choose the very eco option and use no wrapping paper at all, but when it gets to parnets on in-laws you still needs use he real things. Therefore that is why we love the Eco Bumber Recycled Christmas Wrapping Paper and Tags from Natural collection.

This Eco Bumper Recycled Christmas Wrapping Paper and Tags set is perfect for all your wrapping needs this Christmas. It also means you’ll always find the ‘right’ paper in the pack for all the people you are buying gifts for this Christmas holiday.

This high quality 100% recycled wrapping paper set comprises of 6 sheets of paper (70 x 50cm) and 6 matching tags, of one each of the following patterns:

1. Recycled Christmas Trees Wrapping Paper and Tags (6 sheets of paper & 6 matching tags)
2. Recycled Christmas Story Wrapping Paper and Tags (6 sheets of paper & 6 matching tags)
3. Recycled Christmas Santa, Snowmen & Reindeer Paper and Tags (6 sheets of paper & 6 matching tags)
4. Recycled Robins Wrapping Paper and Tags (6 sheets of paper & 6 matching tags)
5. Recycled Christmas Squares Wrapping Paper and Tags (6 sheets of paper & 6 matching tags)

One set each of all 5 designs for the price of 4 sets. Total 30 Sheets & 30 Tags.
The best thing of all is that Natural Collection have reduced the price form £18.00 to £13.50.

Biome Christmas Tree Fair Trade Advent Calendar

As part of your eco, organic fair trade christmas planning make sure that your kids start the countdown with the Biome Christmas Tree Fair Trade Advent Calendar. Therefore replace the paper, plastic and chocolate advent calendar from the supermarket with this soft felt Christmas tree.

Each pocket contains a decoration to slowly build up the tree until completion on Christmas Eve and space for your own Christmas goodies, fair trade sweets, chocolates or home baked cookies.

Made by a small collective of Wonderful women in a small backstreet of Kathmandu. They hand produce their own chemical free felt from just hand soap and hot water. And then hand sew each decoration together and place it on a string ready for you to discover in December.

The small co-operative has provided economic opportunities to 78 women and aim to develop and support further socially marginalised women.

These retail at £16.00 and can be found at Biomelifestyle.

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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