Wow, here’s an offer and a half! Fair Trade fashion pioneers, People Tree has teamed up with online travel directory, responsibletravel.com to celebrate the launch of their new Summer Collection with a fantastic competition. Win a holiday and a holiday wardrobe! To win a luxury weekend break for 2 in Devon, plus £300 worth of [...]

Don’t worry, it’s not an environmental disaster! No, a new green festival ‘Green Wave’ – billed as ‘The Eco Family Fun Weekend’ – is headed for Brighton on Saturday 5 and Sunday 6 July. You’ll be able to experience all the fun of the green fair in the beautiful setting of Preston Park with eight [...]

It’s that time of year again when I call on all green girls around the world to get nominating in our annual Responsible Tourism Awards! The Virgin Holidays Responsible Tourism Awards, founded and organised by responsibletravel.com in association with our partners, Telegraph Travel, Geographical Magazine and World Travel Market, need your help in scouring the [...]

We are really excited about our World Fair Trade Day event this Saturday 10 May! Greg Valerio of Cred Jewellery is going to be telling us all about the process of seeking Fair Trade certification for gold and diamonds. So if you’re on the lookout for an ethical engagement or wedding ring, are confused about [...]

As great green girls you probably already know all about this but just in case…! The Federation of Small Business has just launched a national petition which calls on the Government to pay special attention to securing the future of independent shops across the UK. You can sign here on the 10 Downing Street website. [...]

After moving into our first home, a 3-bed terrace in Worthing, we are finally getting around to doing some work on it. Up until now, we might as well have been living in rented accommodation as we still have the previous residents’ carpets and wallpaper in situ, as well as their cooker, fridge, lampshades and [...]

Yep, back again to Brighton is the Fashion Made Fair sample sale – much too good (in both the ethical and fashion sense!) to be missed… From Friday to Sunday come along to Fabrica to take your pick of the best fair trade and ethical fashion. They’ve got howies, People Tree, Kuyuchi, Terra Plana, Tonic [...]

I think the day after Valentine’s Day is as good a day as any to let green girls know about a green wedding competition! Ethical Weddings member and environmentally committed videographer, Jennifer Sabini Evans of BeanTime Productions is offering six hours of her time to 4 US couples who are having a Green Wedding in [...]

After moaning that I hadn’t heard much from the Plastic Bag Free Brighton campaign in my last post, I was chuffed to get an email today with their latest news. They are inviting everyone (well, it’s first come, first seated!) to a a free screening of ‘message in the waves’ at Brighton’s lovely arthouse cinema, [...]

I’m feeling a very guilty – and cold – green girl at the moment. Guilty for not writing on this lovely blog for soooo long! And cold because our central heating has broken… brrrr! The upside of this, however, is that we will have a heating system that is over 90% efficient by the time [...]