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A World Without Ice Book Review
Henry N Pollack, the author of A World Without Ice was the contributing author to the 2007 Nobel Peace Prize, was a professor of geophysics at the University of Michigan for more than forty years and now serves as a science adviser to Al Gore’s...
Our Choice by Al Gore Book Review
Al Gore’s latest book is Our Choice: A Plan to Solve the Climate Crisis. Picking it up, it immediately struck me that is was like a school text book, but with more color pictures. It looked incredibly inviting flicking through, diagrams, explan...
Surya Moisturising Hand Sanitizer Eco Product Review
With Swine Flu being in the news so much, hand santisers (although spelt with a ‘z’ on this product) are all the rage with every shop form the cheap to the high-class selling them. But this is the first natural and organic hand sanitiser ...
10 Ways To Change The World In Your 20s Book Review
Ten Ways to Change the World in Your Twenties by Libuse Binder is yet another green tips books. What is different about this one? It’s targeted to people in their 20s (as you can tell by the title), and provides ideas, resources and proven stra...
10 Ways To Change The World In Your 20s Book Review
Ten Ways to Change the World in Your Twenties by Libuse Binder is yet another green tips books. What is different about this one? It’s targeted to people in their 20s (as you can tell by the title), and provides ideas, resources and proven stra...
Seda France Bon Chic Candle Eco Product Review
Believe it or not, when the Scented Candle Shop sent this candle to be reviewed, an argument broke out. After smelling this Seda France Bon Chic candle everyone wanted to take it home and review. Of course I won and I’m glad I did. It’s l...
Seda France Bon Chic Candle Eco Product Review
Believe it or not, when the Scented Candle Shop sent this candle to be reviewed, an argument broke out. After smelling this Seda France Bon Chic candle everyone wanted to take it home and review. Of course I won and I’m glad I did. It’s l...
Jane Goodall – Hope For Animals and Their World Review
Jane Goodall – Hope For Animals and Their World: How Endangered Species Are Being Rescued Form The Brink was a very different book form many I’ve read lately. It’s full of hope and stories of success not only for animals but plants ...
St Eval As Nature Intended Scented Candle Eco Product Review
These St Eval As Nature Intended Scented Candles were scent by the Scented Candle Shop whose range of candles seems to have no end. This is a triple pack which I lit together but each of the glass jars has a different scent – jasmine and rosewo...
Simply Soaps’ Organic Guy Bar Soap Eco Product Review
As the name might suggest, the Organic Guy Bar Soap from So Organic is simple: simple packaging, simple product. While I usually tend to buy mainstream, branded products – preferring facewashes and shower gels to soaps, which I’ve found leave you...
Organic Blue Hair and Body Wash Eco Product Review
Hair and Body Wash for Men by Organic Blue from So Organic is an all natural and organic shower gel and shampoo combination. The product is SLS free and does not contain parabens or any synthetic colours or fragrances. The first thing I noticed when ...
Heaven Scent Spiced Apple Jar Candle Eco Product Review
This candle from Scented Candle Shop is a little different from all the others we’ve reviewed it is housed in a glass jar. There’s not much difference though, it’s still 100% organic plant wax handmade from a natural, sustainable pl...
Bill Streever – Cold Book Review
Cold – Adventures in The World’s Frozen Places is a book that looks cold. But that’s OK, it was 100°F today so I don’t mind. Living in Anchorage, Alaska, Bill knows what it’s like to be cold. Split into 12 monthly c...
The Lazy Environmentalist on a Budget Eco Product Review
The Lazy Environmentalist on a Budget is the follow up to the 2007 book The Lazy Environmentalist. While I didn’t review the first one, I did write about it while interviewing the author Josh Dorfman and thought it a very good resource. The fol...
Ecover Window & Glass Cleaner Eco Product Review
Part of Ecover’s new range of cleaners with ‘Eco-Surfacants’ (you can read more here), the Window & Glass Cleaner was sent to me along with well-known brand Mr Muscle Window & Glass (with vinegar) to compare with. Nowadays when I rea...
Ecover All Purpose Cleaner Eco Product Review
Part of Ecover’s new range of cleaners with ‘Eco-Surfacants’ (you can read more here), the All Purpose Cleaner was sent to me along with big brand Flash One for All to compare with. I’m one of those people who like to be told what to do with...
Heaven Scent Patchouli Travel Candle Eco Product Review
The Heaven Scent Patchouli Travel Candle from theScented Candle Shop is a subtly scented soothing candle that is perfect for an evening of peace and relaxation. The candle produces a subtle and relaxing aroma that I can only describe a lovely cross b...
Ecover Power Cleaner Eco Product Review
Part of Ecover’s new range of cleaners with ‘Eco-Surfacants’ (you can read more here), the Power Cleaner was sent to me along with big brand Cilit Bang Power Cleaner/Degreaser to compare with. Now Cillit Bang is known to be extremely powerful a...
Ecover Multi Surface Spray Cleaner Eco Product Review
Ecover have launched a new range of cleaners. In fact, they seem to make a cleaning product for every occasion these days – need your kettle descaling? Ecover can do it. Need a stain remover? Ecover has one. Anyway they have developed ‘Eco-Surfac...
Rose Organic Pillar Candle Eco Product Review
The Scented Candle Shop has sent us candle lovers at Life Goggleslots of candles to review and some were the same candle just a different scent. And this organic pillar candle is just the rose version of the Sea Breeze candle I reviewed a while back....
Heart Of Dryness Book Review
Heart of Dryness is by James G Workman and is subtitled “How the Last Bushmen Can Help Us Endure the Coming Age of Permanent Drought” I’ll admit I haven’t finished the book yet but I’m really enjoying it. An award winni...
Echo Paper – Recycled Paper Review
Echo Paper sells 100% post-consumer waste recycled paper, in a variety of formats. The paper is certified by the Forest Stewardship Council (FSC) and the Sustainable Forestry Initiative (SFI). Their paper is also 100% process chlorine free and acid-f...
Aloe Pura Dental Floss Eco Product Review
Now I’m not sure if this review will be helpful or not. I’ve not tried the stuff myself, but you can find out more on the Trust William website. This review was written by Andy, who wanted to title it: Is the floss posh or dross? That sor...
Surya Brazil Nutritive Hair Mask Eco Product Review
The first thing you notice about the Surya Brazil Nutritive Hair Mask is the smell. Described in the accompanying pamphlet as an ‘all-embracing, exotic and seductive scent’, the Preciosa essential oil gives the product a very distinctive smell, a...
Indigenous Designs Eco Clothing Product Review
A review of organic clothing makes our 200th product review! Click here to take a look at the other 199 eco product reviews. Indigenous Designs is an organic apparel company that makes one of a kind fair trade organic clothing made by artisans from a...
Heaven Scent Incense (Strawberry) Organic Tea Light Candles Eco Product Review
The Scented Candle Shop sent us a whole load of candles to try out and recently I tested some tea lights. This Heaven Scent Incense Organic Tea Light Candles are basically the same but strawberry flavour. You can tell they’re strawberry by the ...
JASON Tea Tree Satin Body Wash Eco Product Review
Big Green Smile recently sent me the JASON Mango Satin Body Wash, which I reviewed here, and along with it they sent the tea tree variant. And it’s even better to be honest. If I’d reviewed it the other way around, I may not have liked t...
Heaven Scent Organic Tea Light Candles Eco Product Review
Probably the most popular type of candle out there, tea lights are ubiquitous and seemingly everywhere in our house. So it was nice to receive some organic tea lights to test. Made by Heaven Scent these unscented tea lights are handmade with 100% or...
TrickleSaver Energy Saving Product Review
We’re previously mentioned TrickleSaver, a device designed to stop the flow or drain of standby power when appliances are not being used (often called vampire power). Well, we got our hands on the products for a test. We were sent the PC Trickl...
Yankee Candle Beanswax Eco Product Review
Probably one of the most famous names in candle making, Yankee Candle, are best known for their huge range of scents in big glass jars you find in home shops and garden centres. What they haven’t been is particularly environmentally friendly, u...
