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The Fairtrade Foundation, UK This is the place to find out more about whats happening with fairtrade around the world. Get involved, support the growers & make a difference. The Fairtrade Mark is a globally recognised symbol, which guarantees that the producers get a fair price for their produce. www.fairtrade.org.uk www.fairtrade.net Organic Places to Stay There's a wide selection of places to choose from in this website directory, including organic farms, B&Bs and small hotels. Fresh produce, local specialities, home baking, homemade products such as jam, juice, ice cream, yogurt, cheese, pasta, pasta sauce, olive oil, wine - you'll find all these and more www.organicplacestostay.com Ethical Foods Finally, a realistic way to shop carefully sourced groceries has arrived: The Ethical Food Company are commited to delivering seasonal, local, organic, fairly-traded and high animal welfare food & drink direct to your door. They believe in paying their producers a fair price while offering excellent value for money. Well worth checking out! www.ethicalfoods.co.uk Just Parenting Lots of pregnancy & parenting tips & advice www.justparents.co.uk Local Green Guide Local Green Guide A guide to all things green in the southwest. Renaissance Henna Achieve beautiful hair health & colour using only henna & indigo - if you've ever wondered how to dye with henna & are not sure how to go about it - this is the site for you! www.renaissancehenna.com Eco Menstrual Eco-friendly & re-usable menstrual products www.ecomenstrual.co.uk Waterloo Village Community Project - Sierra Leone. A charitable organisation set up to provide aid & relief in any form possible to the war-stricken area surrounding waterloo village near Freetown, Sierra Leone. Find out more the wvcp project & help a village to help itself! www.wvcp.org.uk/ Women's Environmental Network: Women's Environmental Network is a national membership charity that runs an information & research service to give practical advice on environmental and health issues from a woman's perspective. They have lots of info on issues like chemicals in cosmetics, causes of breast cancer, recycling, real nappies, food & farming & green consumerism. www.wen.org.uk Safe Cosmetics Because we're worth it! is the US based campaign for safe cosmetics. Set up to get the cosmetics industry to phase out the use of chemicals that are suspected carcinogens, mutagens & reproductive toxins. Lots of info & shocking facts that can't be ignored any longer. To find out what not to put on your skin & what you can do to support this, visit www.safecosmetics.org (part of Friends of the Earth's new Cancer Prevention Program) Friends of the Earth Friends of the earth tackle the present day issues that threaten us & our planet - such as GM farming, chemicals in cosmetics & the burning of fossil fuels. FOE run campaigns to protect the 'basics': namely pure food, clean water, breathable air and healthy communities. www.foe.org Cloth Nappy Addicts A forum to feed your cloth nappy addiction! Popular online cloth nappy and eco friendly community, offering advice, reviews, useful resources, WAHM showcases and a buy and sell area. www.clothnappyaddicts.co.uk Babies Bloomers Cotton Washable Nappies For Everybotty! www.BabiesBloomers.co.uk Ethical Babe Online shop selling fairly priced organic and fairtrade clothing, environmentally friendly toys, natural toiletries for parents, babies and young children www.ethicalbabe.com Greenfibres The place to buy eco goods & organic clothes. For undyed cashmere blankets, organic underwear, organic wool & linen, organic matresses & lots more, visit www.greenfibres.com MumsOnline - Where Parents Talk. Chat, advice, support, product reviews and debate. A site for every aspect of parenting. www.mumsonline.net Permaculture Magazine The magazine with solutions for sustainable living, covering issues such as alternative energy, organic gardening, eco-building, global eco-villages & living off the land. A good read with lots of info on courses &green books: www.permaculture.co.uk Ethical Consumer The magazine with ethical alternatives to mainstream products. Covering everything from banks & computers to skincare & cornflakes! Find out which household brands support genetic engineering, factory farming, oppresive regimes, nuclear power ... and buy the ones that don't! www.ethicalconsumer.org Ethiscore Check out Ethical Consumer's new www.ethiscore.org site which gives instant, up-to-date ethical ratings on hundreds of everyday brands and products. The Ecologist One of our favourite magazines! This magazine is full of hard hitting information about the reality of the world we live in. Open your eyes to the devastation inflicted on our planet in the name of greed & power & do something about it. Includes a superb section 'green pages' which keeps you abreast of the positive planet friendly alternatives available from organic box schemes to shoes! www.theecologist.org The New Consumer Magazine We recentley discovered this great magazine packed from start to finish with information about fair trade, trade justice & its positive impact around the world. The New Consumer Shop is well worth a visit too & is packed with interesting books & fairtrade items from across the globe. www.newconsumer.org www.newconsumershop.org The Mother Magazine The magazine for holistic parenting in a modern world. Covering issues such as natural pregnancy, home birthing, breastfeeding, natural immunity & alternative education. Lots of tips, stories & experiences to help mother & baby along ~ not forgetting the fathers! www.themothermagazine.co.uk A Lot of Organics The UK organic search engine. Find everything you need for your organic lifestyle, from health products to clothing & bedding. Well worth browsing..... www.alotoforganics.co.uk LittleStuff.co.uk is a brand new Internet Services Directory bringing together all the hundreds of independent suppliers of Pregnancy, Baby and Child goods in the UK. Everything & Everyone that every baby will ever need. Organic Living - Find organic stores, organic wine, markets & hampers, clothes, books, holidays, baby & child, etc. www.organicliving.ukf.net Leafstream The online directory of over 1000 environmental companies and organisations in the South, South West and Wales. The place for eco books, green jobs, plus lots of local, natural & sustainable products. www.leafstream.com Get Ethical Red Pepper and The Big Issue magazines have created getethical.com to promote and advance ethical consumerism and support social business and social enterprises in the UK. By utilising the power of consumers, together, we can create a more sustainable economy and a better world. www.getethical.com Corporate Watch Corporations have gained a power out of all proportion to their original purpose. We are a research group supporting the campaigns which are increasingly successful in forcing corporations to back down. Corporate Watch is part of the growing anti-corporate movement springing up around the world. http://www.corporatewatch.org.uk/ Ethical Trade The Ethical Trading Initiative is a ground-breaking initiative which brings together a wide range of organisations from all parts of society. Together, we aim to improve the lives of poor working people around the world. Specifically, we are an alliance of companies, NGOs and trade union organisations working to promote and improve the implementation of corporate codes of practice which cover supply chain working conditions. www.ethicaltrade.org Make Trade Fair Join the big noise - join millions of people around the world who are calling for decision makers to make trade fair. With your help, we can make it the biggest petition ever. www.maketradefair.org New Economics Foundation works on economic, social and environmental issues through a mixture of practical pilot projects and tools for change, in-depth research, campaigning, policy discussion, and raising awareness through the media and publications. We also incubate new organisations and campaigns that can create long-term change in society www.neweconomics.org The Clean Clothes Campaign aims to improve working conditions and support the empowerment of workers in the global garment and sports shoe industrieswww.cleanclothes.org People & Planet is the largest student network in Britain campaigning to alleviate world poverty, defend human rights & protect the environment www.peopleandplanet.org War on Want fights poverty in developing countries in partnership and solidarity with people affected by globalisation. We campaign for workers' rights and against the root causes of global poverty, inequality and injustice.www.waronwant.org
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