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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 on this event 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

Read my review of Clear Spot Sea Cakes Added 17/11/2009
New Melissa Footwear by Vivienne Westwood: Lady Dragon Heart; Lady Dragon Globe and Booty With Stud - These are all now available from Fashion-Conscience.Com Added 16/11/2009
Hessian Sprouting Bag now available from: http://www.ethicallyessential.coop/product_info.php?cPath=560&products_id=301 Added 21/10/2009
Fabulous New Boots! Now available from Bourgeois Bohème Added 21/10/2009
Elysium Organic Baked Beans - Product Review Added 02/10/2009
Just released! Premium Pet Shampoos by Baby's Bum premium Natural Soaps. More information at: http://www.babysbumpremiumnaturalsoaps.co.uk/ Obtain a bottle of liquid pet shampoo Lavender, Citronella and Tea Tree fragrance FREE with all orders over £10, for a limited time only. Added 09/09/2009 & Updated on 12/10/2009
Natural Protein Powder - Read My Review of this newly launched product. Added 25/08/2009

NEW GARDENING PRODUCTS

New Seeds & Plants now available from the 2010 T & M catalogue include: Petit Posy Mix (a kale/Brussels sprouts X); Summer Purple sprouting broccoli (GAA4778); Maro - mushy pea (GAA4823); Salad Leaves Speedy Mix (GAA4790); Blackberry Apache (CFC3494); Raspberry Tulameen (CFC3539); Beach Plum (DFC3677); Apple Tentation (DFC3674); Grape Moscato (DFC3607); Nashi Pear (DFC3688); Family Apple & Pear Trees (DFC3680/81); Patio Apricot Champion (DFC3687); Paw Paw (DFC3678) and finally Blue Danube an early maincrop potato (ZPP5370). Added 23/09/2009

NEW BOOKS/ARTICLES/DVDS/DATABASES:

New Animal Free Agriculture Database
The Vegan-Organic Network, in collaboration with Vegatopia, are pleased to announce their new database of over 1700 scholarly references related to the science, practice and benefits of animal free agriculture. The database can be viewed at: http://www.vegatopia.org/bibliography.html. This database will be immensely useful for those with a research or practitioner interest in animal free agriculture, including growers, government, NGOs, academics and students. The database includes full academic references for every entry and is the work of the late Dave of Darlington who died in May 2008. For notes explaining the database fields and the abbreviations used see: http://www.vegatopia.org/pdfs/dave%20of%20darlington%20database%20notes.pdf Added: 16/11/2009

Free Download! - Download a free chapter from the Fresh Network's recently released ebook, Raw: your biggest questions answered. The chapter is 'Cacao and sweeteners' and in it you can read the responses of 12 leading raw food experts to our questions regarding these foods. Go here to download this free sample chapter. Added: 16/11/2009

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

Report Livestock Consumption & Climate Change (September 2009) by the Food Ethics Council at: http://www.foodethicscouncil.org/files/Livestockconsumption.pdf?PHPSESSID= bf5746a863744289e272a72ff07e183d Added: 28/10/2009

Read Hillside Animal Sanctuary's Latest Newsletter 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

New Book Review - The Allotment Book by Andi Clevely. Added: 06/10/2009

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

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

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

Sid's Punk Permaculture Garden - A truly inspiring urban permaculture project! Watch the vegetables growing on You Tube. Added 13/10/2009

Vegan Poet, Butterflies, can be viewed live on You Tube at: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0oaYXeb7Is4; http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MgaNewhAbck; http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JL9bUJGaVAo. Added 13/10/2009

New Blog at: http://thevegantruth.blogspot.com Added 12/10/2009

New online vegan newsletter Vegan Means now at: http://www.veganmeans.com/vegan_where/StartingUp.htm Added 12/10/2009

Climate Friendly Food's new web site was launched today at: http://www.climatefriendlyfood.org.uk Added 12/10/2009

Shared Earth - Online store selling Fair Trade handmade gifts, jewellery and recycled products. Added 23/09/2009

FREE gourmet raw vegan recipe every week posted on Veggie Vibes website at:
http://www.veggievibes.net/recipes.html Added 09/09/2009

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:

Become a WoodWatcher! Help to influence planning decisions in favour of woodland by joining the WoodWatch Campaign. Find out more and sign up online. Added 17/11/2009

It has been reported that Amazon are selling Foie Gras. There is a petition at:
http://www.thepetitionsite.com/26/please-stop-selling-foie-gras-at-amazoncom Added 21/10/2009

Free festive vegan recipes are now available at the Gentle Thanksgiving site. Added 21/10/2009

IVU now have a new recipe database called Recipes From Around the World. Added 21/10/2009

Please help to save this very popular veggie cafe: Please sign the petition at: http://www.gopetition.co.uk/online/31335.html Added 21/10/2009

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

Two new recipes added to the NEW RECIPE SECTION: Hale Kale Salad (from the newly published book Raw Food for Real People) + Grilled Mixed Peppers. Added: 02/10/2009

A new Vegan Forum has been set up at: http://veganviews.rabbitforum.org/forum.htm - as part of Vegan Views magazine. Added: 09/09/2009

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