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• energy

  • Energy Saving Trust provides information on home energy efficiency, clean fuel vehicles, renewable energy and grants available to householders and businesses.

• ethical banking

  • Co-operative Bank or Smile both provide ethical current and savings accounts.

  • Triodos Bank offers ethical savings accounts.

  • Ecology Building Society provides mortgages and investments.

  • Ethical Investment Research Service (EIRIS) provides information on ethical investment.

• holidays

  • Organic Holidays will guide you on accommodation in the UK and abroad serving organic produce.

  • Willing Workers on Organic Farms (WOOFing) helps people to volunteer on organic farms around the world.

  • Earthwatch organises holidays for people to assist scientists on environmental projects around the world.

  • Ecovolunteer organises educational and enjoyable wildlife holidays.

  • Bangors House is the UK's first organic B&B, near Bude in Cornwall.

  • Friday's Place is an eco-friendly resort in Southern Kerala, India.

• household

  • Forest Stewardship Council provides information on sustainably grown wood carrying the FSC label. See also Friends of the Earth's Good Wood Guide.

  • The Green Building Store has a range of environmentally-friendly construction materials, paints and finishes.

  • HomeRecycling.co.uk supplies separated bins, can crushers and other supplies to help make recycling as easy as possible.

  • Omlet are the people to talk to if you are thinking of keeping chickens for the first time - Omlet have a great range of eglus for them to live in and all the experience to help you get started.

  • Freecycle is a great way to recycle old household items - don’t throw them away, give them to someone who wants them!

  • The Green Store is an online eco store for all your green household needs.

• nappies and baby matters

  • National Association of Nappy Services has details of local delivery and collection of freshly laundered cotton nappies.

  • Ecobaby are suppliers of eco-friendly baby products including biodegradable, compostable nappies.

  • BabyGROE is a UK charity helping parents make natural choices.

  • The weaning room is a website totally devoted to weaning information.

• fashion

  • Adili the best in ethically sourced clothing and accessories.

  • Ciel the ethical and environmental choice for luxurious knits and cottons, favoured by the likes of Cate Blanchett and Sienna Miller!

• office

  • The Laundry is a fantastic recycling service for small businesses in London.

  • Envirowise is a government programme offering free, independent advice on practical ways for your office to minimise waste and save energy.

  • Brain Food is Abel & Cole's fruit for offices service - keeping you happy, healhty and organic 9-5!

• reading

  • New Consumer Magazine is the UK's only fair trade magazine, featuring fair trade news, clothes, books, cooking and more.

  • The Green Parent is a green lifestyle magazine for all the family. It features articles on parenting, learning, nutrition, breastfeeding, eco-house and garden and more.

• transport

  • Green Tomato Cars offer the greenest cab ride around.

  • City Car Club is an hourly pay-as-you-go car rental - a practical solution to reducing your carbon footprint.

  • Sustrans is sustainable transport charity which works on practical projects to encourage people to walk, cycle and use public transport.

  • London Cycling Campaign campaigns to improve services for those who cycle in London. The free London Cycle Guides are available from this site.

  • WhizzGo is the UK's greenest pay-by-the-hour car club. Hire a car for as little as an hour in 12 cities throughout the UK.

• waste and recycling

  • Waste Connect - type in your postcode on this site to find your nearest recycling point for all kinds of household waste.

  • Waste Watch has information about what and where you can recycle.

  • Community Recycling Network promotes community-based sustainable waste management and the London Community Recycling Network includes useful information on composting.

  • Uptown Oil is a company that collects waste vegetable oil from restaurants and pubs in London and turns it into 100% recycled biodiesel, which can be used in diesel vehicles without any modification.

  • Love Food Hate Waste has great advice on the perfect portion sizes to avoid waste, time and money saving tips, other tips on how to reduce food waste and recipe ideas.

• agricultural courses

  • Biodynamic Organic Agriculture training - a full time course where the skills and theory of organic farming are taught, as recommended by Stein Landers, our apple grower.

  • Bulmer Foundation One of the most innovative MA courses in the country.

• charities

  • WSPA is an international charity that works with the UN on a global campaign to reduce all unnecessary animal suffering, particularly focussing on farm animal welfare.

• other good sites!

  • We Are What We Do, authors of Change the World for a Fiver, have a website that is full of good ideas about the small things you can do to help change the world!

  • The Soil Association, everything you need to know about organic farming and food, as well as broader food and farming issues. A must-visit website offering courses, membership and vital information!