Green Living

Clean your teeth-the environmental way

Having recently had operations on both my wrists, my electric toothbrush was proving to be a sore point! Not being able to grip it fully as quite a large handle and the vibrations caused too much pain, I was forced into looking at the old fashioned way of a manual toothbrush. This is when I […]

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HAIR TODAY: COFFEE TOMORROW

Green World Award winner Hair O’right have come up with a brilliant idea – a tree in a bottle. There are several variations on the theme, but our sample from the Taiwan company is a coffee-dyed shampoo bottle that contains caffeine extracted from coffee husk (reused agricultural waste). In the bottom of the bottle are

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The Foot-Powered Washing Machine

I know that from the outside it may seem like we at The Green Organisation are complete workaholics, but while getting my January 5-minute fix of Facebook yesterday I came across this sensational invention; please read the release below. Happy new year all – Mark. Meet the World’s Favourite Foot-Powered Washing Machine Household product design

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Manchester Firm Craghoppers Sponsored Biospheric Project Scoops Top National Environmental Award

Ground-breaking Manchester project led by Craghoppers brand ambassador researches sustainable crop production systems in an urban environment Leading outdoor brand Craghoppers is pleased to announce that one of its UK-based sponsored projects, the Salford Biospheric Project, has been named as one of only five ‘Green Champions’ at this year’s Green Apple Built Environment Awards, beating

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Smartstreets-Smartbins: A smarter approach to cigarette and gum litter

The Chancellor’s Autumn Statement confirmed that Local Authorities are facing tough times with budgets being held down next year to deliver a freeze in council tax followed by an expectation of efficiency savings the following year.  This will inevitably mean that there are some hard decisions to be made as councils juggle the budgets across

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Eco Friendly Shopping

In 2012 the Centre for Retail Research issued a report on Retail Ethics and Green Retailing*.  One of their key findings was that “Green Retailers need Green Customers”.  Essentially it doesn’t matter whether retailers choose to go green for ethical reasons, for operational reasons or to gain a commercial advantage; their efforts will be in

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