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Murano Solar Powered Garden Globe – Aqua

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The Murano solar powered garden light globe blends modern technology with centuries old skills of hand blowing glass.

A rather unique and lovely solar decorative garden light – each glass globe contains embedded luminescent crystals which create a magical effect when the light comes on.

Once dark the Aqua globe appears to magically float in the air looking, as it does, very much like planet Earth – truly fabulous and inspiring!

Each Murano Solar Powered Garden Globe costs £19.99 and will earn you over 139 moreeco points and 14Kg’s of free carbon offset

ECO DESIGN WALLPAPER – PEONY

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This fantastic new range of eco-friendly wallpaper is a new favourite of Biome Lifestyles.

The wallpaper is printed on paper made from 100% FSC timber sources using purely water based inks for printing, with no harmful VOC’s or solvents.

The design displays a bold floral statement of peony flowers. Available in; Light Blue, Cream & Mocha, Cream & Pale Moss Green, Brown & Fuchsia and Gray & Cream

One roll is 10 m x 52 cm

Each roll is packaged in compostible materials made from corn.

Each Eco Design Wallpaper roll costs £30 and will earn you over 200 moreeco points and 20Kg’s of free carbon offset.

Remember if you join MoreEco today they will give 500 start up bonus points plus you can earn from 8 points for every pounds spend with our Merchants. Use Offer code ‘waterAIDETS’ and they will give £1 to the Ecover WaterAID campaign.

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.

Luxury Eco-Camp Kit

Biome Lifestyle offers the ‘pampered camper’ the ‘Luxury Eco-Camp Kit’. Ideal for summer festivals- just add tent!

Solar shower – One solar heated reusable shower. 20L capacity, sufficient for 2-3 showers.
Water-powered digital alarm clock – no batteries required.
Solar powered iPod charger – One hour of sunshine gives about one hour of play time to your iPod.
Organic cotton roll-up bed – hand made from high-quality hand woven organically grown cotton using natural colourfast dyes. Easy to carry and much more comfortable than a camping mat.
Soft Shetland wool throw – hand knitted throw made from soft, undyed Shetland wool. Can be used as a blanket or luxurious picnic rug.
Self-powered LED wind-up lantern. 60 seconds wind-up provides one hour of illumination.
One bar of organic soap
One Organic cotton bath towel – available in natural.
All contained within an eco-friendly Biome Lifestyle bag.

Who said “camping”, “eco” and “luxury” were not compatible? This fabulous eco gift shows how to do it!

Stockist: Biome Lifestyle

Price £280

MoreEco points. 1947

Hole in the Heart Necklace: Pink

Exclusive to Love Eco we just adore these enchanting Hole in the Heart necklaces. Not only are they eco, ethical and fair they are surely the ‘must have’ accessory for 2009.

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Made from vegetable ivory every heart is lovingly hand carved and coloured with vegetal dye making each piece unique. Vegetable ivory is the result of a long and attentive process. It is derived from a palm nut that when dried for up to 8 weeks resembles the finest elephant ivory. The dawn of synthetics saw a decline in this once valuable and desirable material so a resurgence is long overdue.

Each necklace is suspended on a 16” sterling silver belcher chain and are limited edition. So don’t delay. Get hold of your favourite before it goes.

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Price; £25.00

MoreEco Points; 173

FIN's Organic Cotton Shirt Dress

FIN’s organic cotton shirt dress has a denim feel and great versatility. Feel free to add a fitted top underneath and wear with or without jeans or tights. Safari style button fastening at sleeves, rounded hem with stitch detail and integrated self tie belt. FIN’s signature embossed silver buttons at front.

FIN is an innovator in environmental and socially sustainable production. Using high quality organic and Fairtrade cotton as well as alternative fabrics like peace silk and adhering to Fairtrade principles throughout, FIN creates ethical and effortless chic for stylish women everywhere. The FIN collection is also 100% carbon neutral.

Stockist: Davidoll

Price: £144

MoreEco Points: 876

Solar Monkey Solar Charger

The next generation of portable solar charger – complete with a monkey nut!

The Solar Monkey is the successor to the highly acclaimed Power Monkey Explorer, using the same high gain solar panel system, but with the added ability to save collected energy into a smaller capacity device, the “Monkey Nut”. This means that when the clouds come out you can still achieve maximum charge, and it also stores extra standby power so you’ll always be able to recharge that all-important portable device, make that crucial call and listen to your favourite iPod playlist one extra time.

This solar charger works a treat in direct sunlight, but will even charge from any non-fluorescent light for instant power on the move, at home or at work. The Solar Monkey comes with a range of connector tips as well as a travel pouch and storage case, making it the essential travel companion that you’ll soon not be able to do without.

Product Compatibility:

Nokia and Mini Nokia, Motorola V66, Samsung E900, LG Chocolate and Sony Ericsson wide connectors.
Mini USB for Motorola RAZR V3 abd V3c, Blackberry and other Mini USB powered devices.
Female USB charging tip for smart phones, PDAs and other USB powered devices.
iPod Apple approved charging tip.
DC4.0 connector for Sony PSP and specific digital cameras.

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>>>Price: £34.25 + MoreEco Cash Back £2.40

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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>

Suki Limited Edition Travel Gift Set

The girls at Eco Trend Spotter do like traveling, so the suki limited edition travel gift set is a perfect gift to give them them this Christmas.

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uki exfoliate foaming [lemongrass] cleanser (30ml)

The key ingredient for clear, healthy skin. suki’s gentle foaming lemongrass exfoliate cleanser smoothes and softens skin like nothing else. it increases cell turnover, smoothes fine lines & wrinkles and evens skin tone. suki’s lemongrass cleanser also purifies the pores of dirt and removes dead skin cells and toxins to reveal fresh, renewed skin and preventing spots and clogged pores. Unlike damaging glycolics, suki’s lemongrass cleanser utilises natural, safe ahas and bhas, awakening a fresh, new layer of skin safely and gently. energising aroma blend rejuvenates you and your skin.

suki velvet facial moisturising cream (15ml)

Rich & nourishing yet light & greaseless, suki’s 100% clean day creme regenerates, penetrates & protects with fat-soluble natural vitamin c & gentle retinol liposome. standardized white willow bark reduces inflammation and redness, calming the skin while helping it perform at its highest level.

Stockist: Love Lula

Price: £35.00

MoreEco Points: 243

Botanical Paperworks Plantable Eco Calendar

Now this is just a great idea. We would get one in the Eco Trend Spotter Office but we have no garden.

The 2009 edition of Botanical PaperWorks’ signature Plantable Eco Calendar is here! Twelve months of completely plantable pages made with 100% post-consumer waste and 100% recyclable into wildflowers.

Keep track of the year with this 5 x 5 inch handmade plantable paper monthly desk calendar that creates beauty and leaves nothing behind but flowers – and a completely reusable tin. When a month passes by simply plant the seed-embedded page and wait for wildflowers to grow.

2009 guest designer: Kal Barteski

These eco calandars retail at £18.99 and you can buy them at EcoHip