I got an election leaflet through my door this morning with pictures of rats and maggots on it, claiming that the local council was planning to introduce Black Death into the city.
This can only mean one thing - that the innocent sounding 'Alternative Weekly Collection' has raised its supposedly ugly head. This is the idea that one week you get your recycling collected and the next they take your residual waste and so on. If you live in the UK, there's a good chance that you know more about it than me - 9 million people have this form of rubbish collection. And guess what? If you do, then your local authority recycles about 7% more of your waste on average than if you don't.
Whilst the rising temperatures seem to making many people overjoyed at an early summer, I am slightly concerned. Some people seem to be more worried about getting a sun tan than global warming. Being a pasty faced soul, I don’t catch the sun anyway, rather it frazzles my delicate skin, premature aging just does not appeal to me and I am concerned about the state of the planet. 
Tautropfen means 'dewdrops' which is a rather nice meaning for a very scientific sounding beauty product range. Its ingredients are 100% synthetic and synthetically altered free with its raw ingredients certified biodynamic, organic or wild-crafted. 
It's that time of year again when the fields are ablaze with brilliant yellow rapeseed flowers, and at our local farmer's market on Saturday I got to try some cold pressed rapeseed oil first hand. 
A year of travelling set up the creators of Marzipan clothing with a great business idea - source fairtrade materials from India, run up some gorgeous clothing and then flog to us via their site or 
Organic hairdressing has become big business, and if you want that salon look, without the salon pricetag, you should try these hair products by 
With many local authorities now offering a recycling service along with the refuse collection, we all need to make sure we are recycling our organic waste, such as fruit and vegetable scraps as well as the other more obvious things, like glass, paper, metal…etc. The only problem is, where to keep the stuff. I used to use a little bin by the sink, but after a few days the bin would smell rancid and the whole kitchen would reek of rotting vegetables – not pleasant I can assure you. The only thing I could do was take the bin outside and keep going outside to the bin throughout the day. Again, not a pleasant prospect for someone as lazy as I am. I was torn between doing the right thing and the easier option of putting everything in the bin. Obviously I did the right thing! 
Something amazing is clearly happening if 560 big-wigs in business are attending conferences to cut their carbon emissions. The Low Carbon World Conference held in London last week hosted some top names in UK business including senior representatives from Marks and Spencer, Google Inc. and KPMG. The event closed with 93% of business leaders committing to measure their organisation’s COproduction. 
Velvet Mutineer have hit on a winning combination for their adopt-a-bag range. Vintage or charity shop finds are recycled to create new bags with production limited to one or two per style and all stitching using 100% organic thread. 
Every week now we seem to be getting press releases from major corporations and businesses telling us about their new green initiatives and strategies. The latest is Waitrose supermarket’s commitment to the environment. Waitrose has pledged that by 2010 all fruit, vegetables and flowers that are non-organic will be farmed to high environmental standards and will carry the 
From: BEST OF 2008: Eco-friendy and sustainable shoes