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Energy saving

Avoid high energy bills with HomeSun solar panels

Fed up of spending so much of your hard earned on fuel bills? Once a year, the six big energy companies usually increase their prices. However, so far this year prices have been increased not once but twicemore

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Food & drink

Organic month: food & drink

It's almost the end of Organic Month, but we can't leave it behind without looking at what food and drink products are available. Beauty as they say come from within, so it is important that what you eat and drink...more

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Sponsored Post

How Do Hybrid Cars Work?

With a number of recent developments propelling hybrid cars into the forefront of public attention, people are beginning to consider updating their existing vehicles to more eco-friendly models. But how exactly do hybrid cars work? more

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Charity

Tamara Mellon OBE designs limited edition 'The STOP bag' for The Body Shop and charity

The say a girl can never have too many shoes... or reusable bags! Founder and chief creative officer of Jimmy Choo Tamara Mellon OBE has designed an exclusive reusable bag to support The Body Shop and ECPAT's global Stop...more

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Energy saving

Hippyshopper visits Lynn and Inner Dowsing Wind Farm

Grimsby Docks, Sunday morning 7.15am. The smell of fish wafts up from the bay as a middle aged man takes his Staffie for a walk past a load of broken-up, fly-tipped bedroom furniture. The dog takes a wee on a...more

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Eco-Fashion

Gothic lace and Nordic autumn with Minna

I've recently become obsessed with lace; especially black lace. And with autumn bringing with her promises of cold evenings and glamorous events (one can but hope!), I am on the hunt for beautiful and durable, yet sustainable pieces that I...more

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Health & beauty

Organic month: bath & beauty

Whenever you mention organic most people immediately think of food. Truth is that you can lead a very 'organic lifestyle' these days from food and clothes to beauty essentials. With September being Organic month, we've had a look at some...more

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Events and happenings

Get moving on the climate crisis: Moving Planet 24 September 2011

On September 24 over 150 countries will join in on the Moving Planet day to help put the focus on the global climate crisis and spend a day without fossil fuels. In Moving Planet's own words "for too long,...more

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Carbon Neutral Living

Vincent Callebaut designs green skyscraper 'Bionic Arch' for Taiwan

OK, so this particular skyscraper hasn't been built yet but the images we've seen of the Bionic Arch are very impressive. Taichung in Taiwan is in dire need to reduce the city's carbon and as part of the 'Taichung Active...more

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Eco-Fashion

Top Five Eco-Friendly Winter Coats & Jackets

Pay no heed to the deceptive weather state outside your window, we are slowly but surely making for Winter. And you know what that means don't you? Coats! I love coats. Sometimes I wish Winter was all-year round (and here...more

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Organic Gift Ideas: Experiences and Vouchers

I'm quite the hopeless case when it comes to purchasing gifts for others, so I resort to giving vouchers. Slightly lacking in personal-ness perhaps (not to mention lazy) but I think my gift-giving incompotency has directed me to something...more

Animal welfare

Picture of the day: Kelly Brook's PETA campaign

Kelly Brook unveils her campaign for PETA targeting the exotic skins trade on the eve of London Fashion Week in Covent Garden, London. The 31 year old model was shot with a snakeskin painted onto her body by singer Bryan...more

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Do It Yourself

5 Tips: How to Be Frugal & Eco-Friendly at University

The time is nigh for me to move out of the parental abode and into university accommodation! With the independence will come the possibility of properly implementing a green way of living. Here at home, we don't have such displays...more

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A greener office. The little things that can make a big difference in the long run

You might be a life-long eco warrior and have your home all set up to minimise electricity use, recycling what can be recycled, going to the local shop with re-useable boxes to save on packaging and jumping on your bike...more

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Green News

Bradford University's Green Student Village

Recently planted onto University of Bradford terrain is an ambitious, new eco-friendly student village, aptly set around a lovely central pond. Its opening will certainly claim a queue amid the more eco-oriented of the pupils but even for those...more

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