Recently my partner and I have been thinking (well actually dreaming) or moving to the countryside and when we do it would be nice if we could grow our own fruit and vegetables. Unfortunately we are both very lazy when it comes to lawn sprucing and complete garden novices, so to help us out I am planning to purchase Let’s Grow Veg magazine.
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If you are thinking of holding a Fairtrade activist event (whatever that might mean) you won’t want the participants to starve. Cue the Fairtrade Activist Sampler Kit from New Consumer Shop with £20 worth of goods for a mere £13.50.
My partner and I were chatting with the PR manager for an ethical clothing retailer the other day and my partner pointed out that whilst ethical fashion for women has come on in leaps and bounds, men seem to have drawn the short straw. Having done a bit of research, I have to agree with him.
Now we all know a little more about the damage plastic carrier bags do to wildlife and the environment in general, we need a practical and ethical alternative. Bags2Keep are one of the best alternatives at a reasonable price. They recently produced bags for the Modbury initiative.
Tired of the usual glossy magazines trying to sell you a superficial way of life? Want to read something ethical that fits more closely to your lifestyle? Have you read Lifescape magazine? It’s a women’s glossy with an ethical slant. Lifescape is the only British magazine exclusively vegetarian/vegan, fair-trade, organic and cruelty free. It’s the natural lifestyle magazine for the modern woman who cares about herself, and cares about the planet too, full of cutting edge news, features and ethical products.
We all get tired of receiving chocolate on birthdays, anniversaries, Valentine’s days and other occasions, but this time your chocolate gift can make a difference. If you buy some chocolate from Chocaid.com, they will donate a small part of the price you pay for the product to specific world-wide hunger relief projects.
On a daily basis we readily slather ourselves in an array of beauty and skincare products containing a cocktail of chemicals. The skin is the largest organ of the body and according to research some of the ingredients in these products can be absorbed into the bloodstream and circulated around the body, causing a range of negative health affects and scares.
It seems like people will never stop arguing about organic food and its benefits (or lack of them) so for those of you spending that extra 10p on your milk, here’s a quick pep-talk from Hippyshopper’s Dawn Mellowship.
I remember a time when watches just…well…told you the time, but now they do oh so much more. Philip Stein Teslar watches are no exception, bringing new meaning to the term ‘feel good fashion.’ Teslar technology was invented in 1986, emanating a signal to reinforce the body’s own electromagnetic field, helping the body to fight off the negative effects of external, low energy electromagnetic fields (EMF) from electronic devices such as mobile phones and computers.
