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Your Children and Toxic Chemicals
New Bill to Protect Children from Untested Chemicals. This post is sponsored by Seventh Generation. Emerging science increasingly links exposure to toxic chemicals with serious health problems. From bisphenol-A in baby bottles to phthalates in childr...
How To Look Great During The Festival Season
Another post from Big Green Smile. This one’s written by Tanja. Music lovers across the land are in heaven now that festival season is underway. Glastonbury was as successful as ever, while punters are now gearing up for more big events such as...
Convertible Bicycle And Stroller/Buggy
I was enjoying the British summer in the park the other say. And apart from spotting D-list celebrities, I also saw one of these things gently amble past. That’s not my picture by the way, but it was just a sunny. A week later, I was looking t...
Eco Emporia in Vogue
Last year I reviewed a denim jeans cushion from Eco Emporia. Well now the company has gone a little further and appeared in the US version of Vogue. Eco Emporia’s fire hose belt was worn by actress Cameron Diaz in a feature on green fashion. Fo...
Furniture That Lasts 300 Years
Ever bought a new chair and have it fall apart a couple of years later? They don’t make things like they used to do they? Well in fact the do. A Swedish company, Brikolör, guarantees its furniture will last 300 years. I’ll repeat that, 3...
Car Use Is Down In English Towns
The transport charity, Sustrans, have the hardest-working PR department I’ve ever known, seriously I get a load of press releases from them every day. Anyway aside from the opening of new cycle-paths etc, I thought this was noteworthy. The Depa...
New Font For The Eco-Conscious
Something I spotted on Springwise recently was a new font designed to save ink. It doesn’t look very good at the size in the picture, but the smaller it is, the better it looks. The Ecofont is created by omitting parts of the letter so it uses ...
Happy Team Green Britain Day
Today (10 July) is Team Green Britain Day. Or something. Sponsored by EDF Energy it seems to be promoting the environment and trying to encourage people to do something green for the day. What I’m a little unclear on is where the ‘team...
Book Of Green
Just a quick post to let you know about an email I received about the Book of Green. The deadline is fast approaching - June 1st - to get your business or website in there. If you don’t have either, wait until it’s out and then grab a pri...
The World’s 10 Most Iconic Green Office Buldings
I’ve not heard of the Ahoys blog before but when they contacted us about the 10 most iconic green office buildings in the world, I thought it’ be rude not to check them out. And I’m glad I did, it’s a really interesting articl...
Another Place To Recycle Your Gadgets: Gazelle.com
Back in 2007, Joel wrote about BuyMyTronics, which takes broken and old iPods, consoles, mobile phones etc. It then fixes them and sells them, keeping them out of landfill. Well there’s another company that’s launched a similar service in...
How The Humble Cork Is Good For The Environment
You may have noticed that some of the products we review at Life Goggles are sent to us by Big Green Smile. Well the team there are always up to something and Ben Wrigley has written a ‘corking’ article for us (sorry for the bad pun!). &#...
Environmentally Friendly Wine Bottles Are Aluminium
I’ve been writing about beer a lot recently so time for wine to take a turn. Volute has produced bottles for its wine made from aluminium. The Californian-based company used wines from Bordeaux and puts them in its unique bottles. Aluminium can...
Read Green Initiative Offers 1 Year Free Subscription To Magazines
Reading a magazine always gives me with a little twinge of guilt. Although I’ll recycle it, it’s still using up paper and if I can read something online instead, I will. And I’m sure I’m not the only one so it’s likely t...
