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NEW! Updated 12/07/2009



BORN FREE AUTUMN 2009 CAPTIVE ELEPHANT APPEAL

In June four elephants were stolen from
 their wild families and shipped to
live in poor conditions in Karachi Zoo
in Pakistan. Born Free are running a
campaign to end the wild trade in elephants.
To donate to this campaign please visit:
http://www.bornfree.org.uk

Click Here To Donate

Added 23/09/2009





NEW BOOK - JUST PUBLISHED!

Raw Food for Real People:Living Vegan Food Made Simple by Rod Rotondi (New World Library, September 2009)
RAW FOOD

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Added: 23/09/2009


FREE RECIPE NOW AVAILABLE:
 HALE KALE SALAD


Added 02/10/2009



GROWING YOUR OWN


To find out what to plant this month visit:
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  CLIMATE FRIENDLY FOOD'S
new website was launched today at: 
             http://www.climatefriendlyfood.org.uk                 Added 12/10/2009



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SUGAR FREE JAM & FRUIT SPREAD
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Now available on the Recipe Page!

Added 06/10/2009



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RECENTLY ADDED ITEMS

2009 CHRISTMAS GIFT IDEAS

Added 21/10/2009:
Some suggestions for eco-friendly Christmas gifts. The following items are all available from the Autumn 2009 Natural Collection Catalogue:
  • Colourful Button Notebook - Pocket-sized and ideal for jotting down notes.  Price £5.95.  Code: 202398. 
  • We've Gone All Dotty!  Dotty dogs to exclude draughts! Made by the Women's Indian Trust. Price £9.95.  Code: 202299.  
  • Lovely, hand carved, rustic Jewellery Box & Three Drawer Chest - Both of these items are made from local, sustainable mango wood by an Indian fair trade group.  Price £11.95 for the box and £27.95 for the chest. 
  • Frog Watering Can -  This fairly traded, fun and unusual watering can costs £19.95.  Code: 202211. 
  • Fair Trade Craft Kits - Fairy or Spaceship.  Price £4.95.  Code: 203069 (fairy) and 203058 (Spaceship)
  • Boxed Greeting Cards - Delightful greeting cards available in either Panda or Sea Otter.  Price £9.95. Code: 202959 and 202970.
  • Polar Bear Candle -  Fairly traded and rather cute! Price £3.25.  Code: 51874.  
  • Penguin Christmas Cards - These look awfully cold and in need of a good home! Price £3.50 for 10.  Code: 202739.
  • Ladies, Machine Washable, Bamboo Fibre Slippers - Price £16.95.  Code: 18403.  
  • Easy Squeezy LED Torches - Ideal stocking fillers! Price £4.95.  Santa or Penguin available. 
  • Delightful, handmade, fairly traded Turtle Pull-Along. Price £14.95.  Code: 17962.
  • Peter Rabbit Soft Toy - Comes with its own carrot! Price £12.95.  Code: 205357. 
And if you don't fancy any of the above suggestions, then why not pop along to the Natural Collection website and take a look for yourself at what's on offer! And of course don't forget Animal Aid's Christmas Fayre, which is being held on Sunday 6th of December at Kensington Town Hall from 10.00am – 5pm.  More information will be posted later on at Animal Aid's web site.   In the meantime why not check out Animal Aid's new bamboo socks?

NEW
PRODUCTS
 
NEW GARDENING PRODUCTS
NEW BOOKS/ARTICLES/DVDS: 

  • Report: Livestock & Climate Change  A recent analysis by Goodland and Anhang finds that livestock and their byproducts actually account for at least 32.6 billion tons of carbon dioxide per year, or 51 percent of annual worldwide GHG emissions. Added: 28/10/2009
  • Raw: Your Biggest Questions Answered -  Book written by 12 leading raw food experts.  Now available from the Fresh Network for £9.97.   Added: 13/10/2009
  • Article on Vegan Organic Growing now in Dissident Voice at: http://dissidentvoice.org/2009/09/sustainability-without-the-bs-the-     real-humane-farmers-are-going-vegan-organic/    Added: 12/10/2009
  • End of the Road for Endosulphan (Report published at the end of September 2009).     Download Here.  Added: 12/10/2009
  • The first issue of a new magazine, VegVibe, has been launched online at: http://www.vegvibe.com.  Added: 25/09/2009
  • Read my Book Review of Raw Food for Real People:Living Vegan Food Made Simple by Rod Rotondi.   Added: 25/09/2009
  • Book Publishing Company is a community-owned, independent publisher of vegan, raw, vegetarian and alternative health titles.  They offer free shipping.  Visit their website for more information. Added: 25/08/2009
  • New Article -  Read my most recent article on Buckwheat.                                                        Added: 11/08/2009
  • The Sustainable (R)evolution Book Project - This new permaculture book is currently being created by the Permaculture Research Institute.  You can find out more about it here.            Added: 14/07/2009
  • New Book Published in September 2009 Eco-logical! (£7.99 Paperback)
    Television eco-guru Joanna Yarrow offers more than just a how-to guide to a green lifestyle, this book goes to the heart of the environmental debate and equips you to make up your own mind about the hotly debated issues of climate change. Available from Duncan Baird Publishers. Download a Catalogue.  Added: 26/05/2009
ON THE WEB:

  • Vegswap - A newly launched web site that enables gardeners to swap their surplus home grown or homemade produce with other local users. The website is free and simple to use and has a search facility.  Alternatively you can post a list of things you have a glut of and wait for someone to make
    you an offer.  Added 13/10/2009
  • Shared Earth - Online store selling Fair Trade handmade gifts, jewellery and recycled products.   Added 23/09/2009
  • Lots of interesting vegan recipes to try out at: http://www.vegancampaigns.org.uk/resources/recipes.html Added 17/08/2009
  • Save A Scream is a brand-new cruelty-free vegan-friendly, rock n` roll website.  It features interviews with well known animal rights supporters and vegan musicians, cruelty-free product reviews and special features.  Added: 11/08/2009
NEWS ITEMS:

  • Compassion in World Farming needs your help to keep the ban on beak trimming. This ban is under threat! ACT NOW - send an eCard to the UK government.   Added 12/10/2009
  • Submissions required for the Green Lifestyle Film Festival
    If you or anyone you know has a film to submit to the first vegan based film festival, please go to the website for details:  http://www.greenlifestylefilmfestival.com
    Submissions are welcomed from everywhere until 1 December 2009.
    Location:  UCLA's James Bridges Theatre in Los Angeles, California, USA
    Dates:  the weekend of 19-21 March 2010.  Added 12/10/2009
  • So What DO You Eat? A fantastic plant-based, how-to-guide, for balanced and healthy family meals. Includes 78 delicious vegetarian and vegan recipes and meal ideas. SPECIAL OFFER! Get a FREE Nutritional Chart with every So What DO You Eat? book (for a limited time only) Available from Lemon Burst Books. Added 12/10/2009
  • Vegetarians Pay for Meat Production!
    When meat consumption worldwide is growing rapidly and is one of the greatest threats to the ecology of our planet and to the hungry poor it is surely nothing short of scandalous that the European Union continues to use a massive amount of taxpayers' money, our money, year upon year, to subsidise livestock farming and the meat industry. Please sign the petition if you agree at:                         http://www.nutritionecology.org/news/stop_subsidies.html  Added 12/10/2009
  • Vegan Living. New members welcome ..  for new vegan forum .. !
    If you are vegan, veggie or genuinely interested in becoming vegetarian..
    Please visit .. !!        http://veganliving.forumotion.co.uk/  Added 12/10/2009
  • Three NEW sugar-free fruit spread/jam recipes added to the Recipe Page today! Added 06/10/2009
  • Join WWF's global campaign and Vote Earth! Why not sign the petition calling for the EU to commit to a 40% emissions reduction target? Added: 09/09/2009
  • Urgent Marine Turtles Need Your Help! Marine turtles are threatened with extinction due to various factors, we must conserve them! Read more   Added: 25/08/2009
  • New Foundation Degree Course in Organic Horticulture at Glyndwr University, Flintshire, North Wales. This course aims to develop competent managers and would be ideal for those who are aiming to manage or work within the conventional organic or vegan-organic systems. It will provide a sound understanding of crop production under the Stockfree and Soil Association standards. For more details about the course and the delivery options please contact Richard Lewis. Tel: 01352 841000 or e mail:  richard.lewis@wcoh.ac.uk Added: 11/08/2009


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