One Green Earth has free tickets for the One Life Show 13-15 March

One Green Earth will be selling Onya bags and also promoting all green businesses in the directory including www.ecopaintstore.co.uk  for eco paint and www.ultimatelyeco.com  for eco cleaning products and services.

If you can’t make it to the show you can still buy a bag online here > > >

To collect your free ticket for the show call Katie 07760 444415

To see the amazing Onya bag, demonstrated by Katie Keegan of One Green Earth,  click here > > >

Visit One Green Earth at the One Life Show- stand C52

One Life Live, Grand Hall of Olympia Exhibition Centre, Hammersmith Way, London
Nearest Tube – Kensington Olympia on the District Line

BIG BANG!! 09 MAY 09 will be a global day of action and events to mark World Fair Trade Day with a colossal programme of drumming from first light to last light. BIG BANG!! 09 MAY 09 will encircle the earth with the roar of drums and the powerful glow of sustainable consciousness: Hands will beat, feet will tap and times will change.

“World Fair Trade Day is a great idea. Fair Trade is essential for
millions of people who work and struggle for survival everyday. It’s
all about justice and human rights. So why don’t you join me in
supporting World Fair Trade Day 09” Sir Paul McCartney

BIG BANG!! BEAT POVERTY BEAT CLIMATE CHANGE BEAT ECONOMIC CRISIS

110million artisans, farmers, producers and supporters including
Archbishop Desmond Tutu, Sir Paul McCartney, Annie Lennox, Eddie
Izzard, Stomp, Sigur Ros, Dudu Sarr, Suzanna Owiyo, Carlou D, The
Zawose Family, Honest Jon’s and Ismael Lo have joined together to make
BIG BANG!! 09 MAY 09 a wake-up call for the planet, and promote a Fair
Trade solution to poverty, climate change and economic crisis.

‘Poverty, climate change and economic crisis are from the same place -
greed and ignorance. It’s time we all did something about it. We don’t
have to wreck the future to meet the needs of today. If we truly
believe that Fair Trade is sustainable and effective, then it is the
solution to the financial crisis.” Paul Myers, President, World Fair
Trade Organization

BIG BANG!! ANNIE LENNOX TRAILER http://www.worldfairtradeday09.org/

OPENING UP MINDS AND MARKETS

BIG BANG!! 09 MAY 09 is a rolling programme of drumming events that
kick-off with a solo drummer at first light on World Fair Trade Day in
New Zealand – cross all cultures and traditions from African villages
to Icelandic towns, Asian cities to American farms – to close at sunset
in Samoa.

BIG BANG!! 09 MAY 09 brings performers and supporters, audiences and
producers, brands and businesses, politicians and voters together to
open markets and minds to the reality of sustainable living, made
possible by the transparent, accountable and growing success of Fair
Trade as an alternative economic platform.

BIG BANG!! 09 MAY 09 Events in the UK include a keynote seminar at the
British Library on 6th May and will be followed by music events at the
Africa Centre; Fair Trade markets; and drumming circles and local music
events across the country.

Everyone is invited to register an event on the purpose-built social
networking website with has free marketing downloads:
www.worldfairtradeday09.org. Be the change. Beat a drum. BIG BANG!!

For further information, interviews with the WFTO leaders and
supporters worldwide and further details of events please contact
LOUISE CHANTAL at HOST UNIVERSAL on 020 7849 4500 or email
louise.chantal@hostuniversal.com

The EcoVillage is an exhibition which promotes green and ethical products, services and organisations and which is designed to be taken to mainstream events.  The aim is to provide a platform for ethical, sustainable businesses to promote themselves to broader mainstream markets and to help those businesses expand from niche to mainstream businesses.

In 2009 The EcoVillage will be present at the Kent County Show and at
the Kent 2020, with more events being considered.  For more information
on these events email amanda@sustmarketing.co.uk or sign up to our
newsletter to hear about new EcoVillage events as we bring them on
board.

The EcoVillage Kent County Show 09
After it’s successful debut at the Kent County Show in 2008, the team
at Sust will be bringing The EcoVillage back to the Show in July 2009.
And it promises to be a bigger and better event!

This July The EcoViilage will be a staggering 5,000 sq m, more than
twice the size as last year. In this bigger space Sust has brought in
more exhibitors, three large marquees, an EcoVillage Picnic Green and
the EcoVillage Square.

At The EcoVillage 2009 visitors will discover exhibitors of all shapes
and sizes, arranged in village streets such as Energy Avenue, Green
Lane and Sustainability Street, or inside the EcoVillage Hall and the
Market Marquee. They will be able to see live demonstrations all day
long at The EcoVillage Square and relax in the EcoVillage Green Picnic
Area.

The EcoVillage is about showing people that Kent and the UK has plenty
of businesses and organisations working sustainably. It is a commercial
event without the support of regional or national public funding. With
over 90,000 visitors, the Kent EcoVillage is possibly the largest green
show ever held in the UK. This year we are pleased to announce media
partner The Ecologist, and to welcome back exhibitors such as Riverford
Organic Vegetables and CPRE together with new businesses such as I am
Natural and Charity Bank.

Organisations promoting green products, services and initiatives that
want to exhibit at The EcoVillage 2009 can find information on
www.theecovillage.co.uk or email amanda@theecovillage.co.uk.

EcoVillage Kent2020 09:
The EcoVillage makes its debut appearance at the Kent2020 this year. 
The Kent2020 is Kents largest business exhibition and conference with
over 350 exhibitors and 3,700 attendees.  This year the Kent2020 will
be at the Kent Showground, Detling on Thursday 2nd April and will
feature speakers such as Simon Calder, travel editor of the Independent
and regular broadcaster and Andrew Neil, editor writer and
broadcaster.  There will also be opportunities for free one to one
business advice, a networking business breakfast and workshops on
innovation in recession, staff training,  and London 2012
opportunities.  

The EcoVillage will also be there with its dedicated area for
sustainable enterprise, with businesses showing the way forward for a
sustainable future.

Bookings for the EcoVillage at the Kent2020 will shortly close, so
email Amanda@sustmarketing.co.uk for more information and to book your
space!

Natural Spa Supplies Challenges Journalists to the very lowest carbon footprint strip washing challenge

Hot on the heels of last year’s Go Prehistoric Clay Challenge, champions of natural Moroccan Rhassoul clay Natural Spa Supplies now ups the ante and asks you – could you replace bathing and showering for a week with the neglected but highly economical strip washing method?  Using just a minimum of hot water, Rhassoul clay for washing the hair and body, and natural alum crystal for deodorant, you will be taking part in the most environmentally washing system on earth.

We are confident that this challenge will reduce your energy
consumption dramatically and you may even find the condition of your
skin and hair improves by reducing exposure to chlorinated water.  By
reintroducing the nearly forgotten strip washing method you will save
water and the energy used to heat it, as well as using biodegradeable
washing products: clay and alum are both naturally produced by
volcanoes using the free energy of nature.

It is common to think that we are being economical by showering rather
than bathing, which is true, but even a ten minute shower will require
about 100 litres of water, compared with just 4 litres for a thorough
full-body strip wash.  It really is time to embrace once again the
traditions of strip washing!

We are therefore offering journalists 100g pure Rhassoul clay, an alum
crystal for deodorant and clear, full instructions if you can take up
the gauntlet and get strip washing for a week.

Please do rise to our challenge, and you may even start a new eco
friendly craze!  This is a great story for a feature, blog or other
item: the greenest, healthiest and most economical way of washing. 
Full instructions are available on how to prepare the clay and alum,
and how to conduct a strip wash in the most feasible way possible.

ENDS

We’d love to hear your personal feedback and if you have any questions during your week’s challenge then please do contact us for personal advice.                    

For your week’s Strip Wash Challenge Products and Instructions please contact :

Lisa Jackson,  Eurydice PR – good news
lisajackson@eurydicepr.co.uk 
01440 709460  /  07702 415187

Because last year’s events were over-subscribed and the feedback was so good, we thought you would like the chance to come to a Herb Day this year.  Below are a few new dates to choose from.

The day-long workshop includes a morning tour of the garden with
medical herbalist Zoe Hawes (herbal practitioner, author, nurse,
plant-collecter et al) who will introduce you to all sorts of herbs
that we grow in our organic garden.  She will explain their history and
uses and teach you how to make a physick or two of your own, to take
home.

The afternoon session will be lead by Debbie O’Shea Freke, a member
Guild of Beauty Therapists and spa consultant with extensive experience
in cosmetic, beauty and holistic therapies. She will talk about the
structure of skin, the value of a proper skincare regime, and explain
the importance of using pure products.  She will demonstrate the use of
Great Elm’s organic skincare products; you will be given a full facial
and taught how to give how to administer one.

Scrummy lunch, refreshments, and all demonstration materials included – £70 for the whole day!

Saturday 18th April
Tuesday 21th April
Wednesday 1st July
Saturday 4th July

All days: 10am – 4pm
B&B can be arranged locally.

So learn and enjoy.  What could be better!  

Book soon to avoid disappointment. Visit the website www.great-elm.com

Victoria Embankment
28 March at 11am

On 2 April leaders of the world’s biggest economies will meet in London to tackle the recession and financial crisis. Our future depends on creating an economy based on fair distribution of wealth, decent jobs for all and a low carbon world so march with Find Your Feet for Jobs, Justice and Climate Change.

The Put People First platform is an unprecedented collaboration between
a wide spectrum of civil society organisations with millions of members
from across the UK. It sets out the practical steps that the UK
government should take to signal its readiness to lead a process of
fundamental change to put people first by:

• Rebuilding our economy so that it finally delivers decent jobs and public services for all.

• Eradicating the scourge of global poverty and inequality.

• Building a green economy that preserves our global commons and the
  natural life-support systems of the planet, prevents run away global
  warming and ensures a safe, clean environment for our children.

The march assembles at 11am on Victoria Embankment. Visit the Put
People First website www.putpeoplefirst.org.uk for more
information.

Natural, eco-friendly anti-insect camouflage from incognito is loved by celebrities on their tropical TV travels

Davina McCall, Charley Boorman and Ewan McGregor and the England Cricket team have all declared how impressed they are with incognito 100% natural, ethically produced anti-insect products, gentle enough for the most sensitive skins yet powerful enough for use even in the deepest tropics.

Davina McCall is currently using incognito in Africa during her filming
for Comic Relief, saying “it’s brilliant”, and Ewan McGregor and
Charley Boorman used only incognito products on their recent TV show
‘Long Way Down’ charting their motorcycle trip down the length of
Africa.  

Says Charley, “we used incognito on Long Way Down and it was
fantastic.  It worked really really well against the mosquitoes and
does everything it says on the bottle.” Charley is intending to go
incognito again on his next trip when it begins filming later this year
in Papua New Guinea.

The England Cricket team is using incognito products on their current
tour in Antigua, West Indies to great effect.  With DEET being
implicated as a serious health threat and even being linked to Gulf War
Syndrome, incognito’s Directors are confident that the use of their
natural products may even help the team’s performance!

So how does incognito work?  Says Patricia Carter, Director, “A female
mosquito can detect human kairomones (similar to pheromones) up to one
kilometre away!  Our products mask these kairomones, camouflaging the
wearer so they remain incognito – unrecognisable – to the blood thirsty
mosquito!  They also do not have the unwanted negative side effects and
health risks associated with chemical repellents such as DEET.”

Selling both in the UK and abroad, including recently in Hawaii and the
Caribbean, the fresh, pleasant smelling incognito products use a secret
blend of 100% natural ingredients, all containing an organically
certified citronella only found on the volcanic island of Java, which
is much more effective against insects than ordinary citronella found
elsewhere.

As well as smelling much better than pungent chemical-based repellents,
incognito camouflage products are ideal for people, especially babies
and young children, who do not wish to expose themselves to the
potential hazards of chemically manufactured toxins.  They prefer to
invest in an infinitely safer product.  Those with sensitive skins or
skin conditions will also benefit from the gentler, natural
formulations, without compromising on efficacy.

Rigorously tested by the London School of Hygiene and Tropical
Medicine, incognito works on all insects, not just mosquitoes.  The
range includes a 100ml camouflage spray, citronella incense sticks,
after-sun moisturiser, and a 3-in-1 shampoo, conditioner and
camouflage, as well as soaps: jasmine rice, ginger and citronella;
lemongrass and citronella; and luxury loofah soap, which contains skin
conditioning loofah for exfoliation as well as cleansing, and therefore
the perfect minimalistic product for light travelling – you can even
recycle the loofah as a gentle pan scourer when all the soap is gone!

All soap packaging is made from biodegradeable Saa paper, made from
sustainable mulberry bark harvested in fair trade conditions by
impoverished Thai women.  

incognito products are transported ethically, fashionably and
practically in their roll-up travel bags which can be hung on a wall or
door, or unrolled flat.  

Incognito is sold direct through their website www.lessmosquito.com or
through Wholefoods in Kensington, Fresh n Wild, Planet Organic, John
Bell & Croydon, airport outlets of Harrods and most chemists. All
products except the luxury loofah soap (which contains honey) are
certified by the Vegan Society.

Visit the website > > >

Article 13, a leading corporate social responsibility consultancy, has released a feature on CSR and sustainability reporting.  The feature takes an in-depth look at recent trends in CSR and sustainability reporting both in the UK and internationally. It also profiles ACCA and GRI sustainability reporting award winners and explores what the recent economic downturn means for reporting.

With the global financial crisis placing pressure on budgets, our CSR
expert view takes an in-depth look at the challenges of sustainability
reporting and how to make it more cost effective by focusing on WHO we
are really trying to convince and HOW we should go about it. 
Recognising that sustainability and CSR reporting are still in their
infancy, this opinion piece emphasises the importance of producing
reports that demonstrate the clear value of corporate responsibility in
practice if the field is going to survive inevitable budget cuts. 
“Sustainability reporting – demonstrating the value of sustainability
efforts” explores the complexities of having multiple audiences to take
into account when reporting on CSR; deciding on which of the multiple
reporting frameworks to use; and the recurring question of verification
of sustainability reporting.

In the CSR view from the field, Article 13 associate, Toby Radcliffe,
explores the role for CSR in a downturn and what changes this may see
to the profession.  Toby realises that businesses must prioritise in
the face of recession, but says that CSR and sustainability should not
be swept aside.  He believes that companies where management has fully
integrated sustainability will be more likely to see it through, but
those who are in the early stage ‘add-on’ phase are unlikely to be
robust enough or show enough foresight to survive the recession.  He
goes on to assert that CSR and sustainability must evolve in times of
recession to ensure that they take into account economic factors such
as maintaining cash and liquidity, reducing debt, managing costs more
efficiently and maximising productivity.

This feature on sustainability reporting also incorporates a series of
CSR best practice case studies, which profile winners of the ACCA
sustainability reporting awards and the Global Reporting Initiative’s
Readers’ Choice Survey.  They include BT, CLP Holdings, Shell,
Petrobras and ICT.  In addition, there are two briefing papers, which
overview reporting trends from around the world as identified by a KPMG
survey and how the new AA1000 assurance standard can help reporters
focus on what is really important.

To read the full CSR and sustainability feature, visit http://www.article13.com/csr/theissues.asp

Email:        fionab@article13.com
Phone:        +44 (0)20 8840 4450
Website:    www.article13.com

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The New World
The New World has since a long time been tamed and its virgin land conquered by dint of human dreams and madness. This tremendous continent has always been the scene of excessiveness : megalopolises such as São Paulo or New York, long roads crossing the Amazonian forest through and through, huge farming lands, new religions… This inordinate conquest harbours disillusion and resentment, lays waste to forest, heightens inequalities, replaces family cultivations by genetically modified cultivations….

Terra do Futuro ?
A new conception of the world is coming to the fore. Trades,
production, and land cultivation have been reconsidered by people who
try to regain, on the ground and in the field, esteem and dignity. Novo
Mundo(s) sets out two of these initiatives : In Ceará, a dry and poor
area in the North East of Brazil, a cooperative of cotton producers
have pitched on organic growing. In the Amazon, rubber tappers recently
freed from the great landlords domination live on rubber harvesting and
fight for the preservation of the oldest forest of the world. Are the keys for another world not there ?

Photographer Florent Demarchez has followed the 2 founders of Veja in
Brazil. His photographs reveals the arising of new initiatives which
fight for a different world on the edge of the global economy.

Press contact : aurelie@veja.fr — 020 3355 83 55
www.veja.fr