Natural Collection has a great set of porcelain Rose drawer pulls. These 4.5cm ceramic roses are the biggest steal imaginable at only £1 each (!!) so if you've got a chest of drawers or some cupboards that are in need of some new jewelry, these are available in cream, fern, aqua, rose, white and ink, and will put a whole new complexion on the situation. Also you can feel good about that they're hand-made by skilled craftsmen in Rajasthan, so you're making your world nicer as well as theirs. [GT]

Rose drawer pulls

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Boston's latest idea for reducing in-city litter is solar-powered self-compacting trash containers. Basically, you throw in your garbage, it crushes the contents down periodically, and therefore smells less and needs emptied less often - as infrequently as once or twice a day instead of a dozen to fifteen times. They also don't spill, unlike the traditional wire basket variety, and hold five times as much trash: 150 gallons versus the typical 30 gallon. [GT]

Boston installs solar compacting public trash-cans [via Boing Boing]

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Kshocolât bills itself as Glasgow's "Chocolate deli", and given it has flavours ranging from Chilli Pecan to White Chocolate with Pepper and Lemon, that doesn't sound too far from the truth.  Available from Heavenly! and Harvey Nichols online, plus Kshocolât actual shops in Glasgow and Edinburgh.  Chocolate naturally produces endorphins and has a low glycemic index; it's only cheap sugary+fatty chocolate-flavoured candy that makes you fat and unsatisfied.  You should always splash out on the good stuff because it goes a long, long way and you enjoy it far, far more.  [GT]

Kshocolât [via Cool Hunting

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Thunderbolt Tea has a very limited amount of Orange Valley First Flush, FTGFOP1 (which is extremely high quality) on for the unreal sale price of $18 USD for 500 grams. At one gram per cup, that's a lot of tea - and this tea normally goes for $20 USD for 250 grams. Thunderbolt is terrifically fair trade in that you're ordering directly from India, and while the Orange Valley isn't organic, their Arya Ruby is (except it's sold out. Strictly, so is the Orange Valley, but they just discovered a few extra bales and are making them secretly available. Gettem while you can since they'll go fast-astic). [GT]

Thunderbolt Tea Orange Valley First Flush, FTGFOP1

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The Organic Consumers Association is expanding its boycott of Horizon and Aurora Organics to include Silk soy, White Wave soy, and milk brands owned by Aurora. Aurora provides milk to Costco's "Kirkland Signature, Publix's "High Meadows", Giant's "Nature's Promise" and Wild Oats. "[M]ost or all of their milk is coming from factory farm feedlots where the animals have been brought in from conventional farms and are kept in intensive confinement, with little or no access to pasture." The soy is from Brazil and China, where human rights and environmental standards are not as they should be. So if you buy these products, ask your local store to join the boycott, and stop buying it yourself. You can also send a letter to the Shameless Seven CEOs. [GT]

Boycott the Shameless Seven - Organic Outlaws Labeling Factory Farm Milk as 'USDA Organic'

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If you're renovating and want to install water saving WCs, taps and fittings, the first place to look for inspiration is the Ultra-efficient toilets, bathrooms and water-saving section of the Green Building Company.  Another good place to look is recently-mentioned The Green Parent magazine, which we mentioned just the other day - more advice from the Green Parent after the jump.

If you splashed out on a new MacBook, you'll likely welcome the chance to save a few quid and still have a snappy, professional looking cover - and did I mention it's got a nice natural fiber surface and is made right here in the UK? Wrappers has MacBook linen sleeves in brilliant white Coconut, hot Horizon pink, slaty Out of the Blue, lilac Raspberry and oatmeal Honey. Instead of a stiff exterior, the linen is pumiced into 'a unique peach skin finish', which is layered over poly fill and with a microfiber navy blue inside. No velcro, no zips, just good tailoring: all for £16. [GT

Wrappers MacBook linen sleeves

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Oliver Heath at EcoCentric has some fabulous felt Swing bags in a summery dark rosy pink, lime green and an olive brown. The felt is made from 100% pure wool and dyed synthetically, but with dye that conforms to "the strictest health, environmental and fire safety standards." If you're dressy or a Frank Zappa fan you can doll it up with a little green rosetta (or cream, pink or multicoloured blue-green-brown-cream). The bags are £25 and the rosettas are £15. (If you were a subscriber to the EcoCentric newsletter you'd be able to get 15% off both, plus 10% off all cardboard playhouses. Plus the newsletter is printed on 100% recycled electrons.) [GT]

EcoCentric Swing bags

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Hippyshopper emeritus Adam of thegreenguy attended a smokin' hot - or should it be cool green - Nokia demonstration of a mobile that pops into its constituent parts: screen, keypad, battery and circuit board... in seconds flat. It's prototypical now, but should lead to a world where there is less high-tech debris being shunted off to poorer countries where they're disassembled by the poor or elderly. From an economic perspective, if it means more components recycled into new products, with less impact from production, everybody wins. Britons discard a shocking number of mobiles every year, as demonstrated at the Dead Ringers? exhibition, and all progress on this front is huge. [GT]

Introducing active disassembly, AKA gadgets that'll recycle themselves [via thegreenguy]

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It's a tad on the difficult side to get ice cream that is not made with cow milk, but, when you do, it's usually brilliant. Styles Farmhouse Ice Cream, for example, has all-new, naturally low fat Slim Ewe which is only 68 calories per 100ml! Comes in Mint Choc Chunk, Dutch Chocolate, Real Strawberry and natural Vanilla. So you won't feel too deprived when you look at the cow ice cream flavours, ranging from Masala Rum & Raisin to Stem Ginger - since although they will be happy, they will also get fat. Course, for the Chocolate Orange With Countreau, it's probably worth it. Send over one of each! [GT]

Styles Farmhouse Ice Cream

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The latest issue of The Green Parent, available in Sainsburys, Waitrose, newsagents, health food stores and baby shops, focuses on holistic birth, with pieces on travel with children, how to create a family garden, and a green examination of cotton.  A good deal for £3, for the piece on travel alone.  They also have a Green Parent book of their own out, describing how to go from before birth all the way through those tempestuous teenage years when they rebel by eating at McDonald's.  (Luckily for you, even McDonald's is starting to go green.)  [GT]

The Green Parent

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InsideOut garden offices are constructed from environmentally friendly larch cladding from managed forests in Scotland and Northumbria, to your personal specifications. Are you an artist who needs natural light? Your design could have a Velux roof light. Are you a musician that needs to blow that sax really hard and loud? Get soundproofing. Concerned about heating bills? Aren't we all! InsideOut spaces are constructed to need minimal heat and be comfortable year round. You can even have a full shower if you want the office to double as a guest house - or make it a full granny flat to accommodate your particular needs. If you have chemical sensitivities like I do, your best option may be to have your own little safe house, yet still be close to your family. Sounds much nicer than the last chemically-clean abode I had, which I refer to as "the concrete bunker"! [GT]

InsideOut garden offices, leisure spaces and granny flats

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While tidying the prodigious collection of familiana in my to-be-in-laws spare room, I discovered a packet of Old Money. No, not cash - that is, not anymore. Dolphin Blue Tree-Free stationery are made from kenaf, denim trimmings and old bills. Rather than dump bleach into the environment, all products are left their own low-key and lovely colour of ivory, pale blue or pale green respectively. Writing on the latter is a particularly luxurious experience (though one wonders how many recycled $20 bills are in there and therefore what the cocaine content is). [GT]

Dolphin Blue Tree-Free stationery

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You woke up, and the sky was golden-edged, the butterflies were rosy and dipping mysteriously above your garden, and the air was clean as freshly-laundered sheets. So of course you called in sick - if you'd gone to work it would have made you sick. Your hammock called, and you tumbled drowsily into it. What would make this better? If it were a bespoke hammock from Handmade Hammocks Hammock Specialists. These are fair trade, with FSC hardwood - comfortable and beautiful. Affordable, too - the Sobrini shown here goes for £39.99 (though extra should you need a frame, installation kit, etc) with next-day delivery and free shipping. [GT]

Handmade Hammocks Hammock Specialists

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The Bodyflik is a gadget making the rounds lately, and has generated enough net buzz that I was curious as to whether the thing actually worked. At £5 for the large or £4 for the 'sport' version (small enough to conveniently tote to the gym, if it indeed did help you dry off more easily with less recourse to towels, it would be a total steal. Less damp towels means less laundry, and less mould in the bathroom, both of which would be cheap at twice the price. Plus, being brightly coloured (and recyclable) they're just plain happy looking. So do they work?