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"You must be the change you wish to see in the world." Mahatma Gandhi

Do you find it difficult to find the organic, ethical or fair trade products you want? You want to make a difference, but how? We agree, so we thought it might be a worthwhile idea to create a website which brings together as many eco friendly homeware and eco gadgets as possible in just one place.

Ding, Dong merrily on high the Christmas Fayre at Natural Collection, 25% off until 14 November! A huge range of heavily discounted environmentally friendly & recycled Xmas wrapping paper, cards, eco gifts, and decorations.

Money Saving Eco Gadgets - with the "credit crunch" really starting to bite we're all looking for ways to save a few pounds, we've put together a small selection of our favourites here...

Tefal Quick Cup

A new and extremely clever invention from Tefal. The Tefal Quick Cup is an energy saving water dispenser that gives you filtered hot or cold water,  at just the touch of a button.

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For eco fab results, and for the complete eco laundry, we've put together our favourite environmentally friendly laundry products in one set. Ecoballs, Dryer Balls and Ecover laundry bleach.

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Eco Laundry Set inc. ecoballs, dryer balls and Ecover Cleaner
Eco Kettle

An ingenious invention: The Eco Kettle has a unique double chamber that enables you to measure out exactly how much water you want to boil, saving energy, water, money and time, making it very eco friendly.. and you still get to have a great cup of tea or coffee!

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Awesome (even in winter) universal hybrid solar charger,  powerful enough to power all of your handheld electronic devices anywhere under the sun. You can use it to charge almost all handheld devices including mobile phones, iPods, GPS devices, digital cameras and game players.

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Solio Solar Charger for mobile phones

Christmas Gift Ideas

We strive to bring the best the eco homewares market has to offer, Fair trade furniture and home decor from Myakka and the Fair Trade furniture compan.

Organic bed linen, organic towels and eco friendly blankets and throws from Luma.

Our toy section includes educational and fun toys and games for children, including the very fab Treepee swinging tent, cardboard play houses from Paperpod and some lovely hand made soft toys.

We also have a wide range of eco gadgets, including wind up radios, energy saving lights, and electricty monitors to help you control your energy use and do your bit for the planet, and in these days of ever escalating fuel prices, help stabilise and even reduce your ongoing energy costs.

Eco Christmas gifts, eco gift sets, xmas cards and decorations now available from most suppliers with more added every day.

Christmas Gift Ideas

Please do have a browse, and do come back, and please tell your friends!

So why would you want to buy Organic products?

A blended polyester /cotton tee-shirt can release about one quarter of its weight in air pollutants and 10x its weight in co2. Just one organic tee-shirt saves the planet from over 100grams of nasty agricultural chemicals. Growing just three pounds of cotton takes one pound of chemicals, while organic cotton takes ZERO.

What about Fair Trade?

Fairtrade is about sustaining prices, fair and proper working conditions, local environmental support, and fairSolio Mobile phone and Ipod charger £49.95 terms of trade for farmers and workers in the developing world. By mandating companies to pay reasonable prices (which must never fall below the market price), Fairtrade puts conventional trading methods to the sword, conventional trade is largely corrupting and rotten and usually disadvantages the poorer workers and economies. Fair Trade enables them to take control of their own destiny, and to substantially improve their own, their families and their local communities lives.
 
Make you think? Do you wonder how some of our supermarkets can sell a tee-shirt for less than £3? We do, read this interesting article about this very subject!

We have tried to make it easier for you to find the eco products you want and easier to compare prices of the various green suppliers.

You can rest assured that Greening England only source products from proven reputable companies in the organic, ethical and fair trade markets.

The "Eco-Friendly" are precociously fluent and passionate when it comes to the environment, whether the topic is global Carbon footprint tee shirt from Gossypium £20warming, endangered species or recycling. Environmental issues bring out the very best in people, willing to give their time, energy and money to promote eco friendly causes. At Greening England we are passionate about the environment and demand that the products we promote, be sourced and produced in a more ethical and sustainable way, thereby reducing the impact of conventional manufacture on the environment.

Do you feel strongly that the use of eco friendly products and ethical manufacture is the only wayLinen tank Dress from Stewart and Brown forward. Do you want to live in a world where "dog eat dog" is the chosen mantra? We don't.

NB: To compare prices from different suppliers EITHER click on a link in the text, use the menu on the left hand side or type the product you are searching for in the search box, to specify exact product please place "QUOTES" around the search term i.e. "Eco kettle".

 

 
 
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