The Green Insurance Company is for drivers who want more than just low cost car insurance. We make it easy for you to go ‘green’ by offsetting 100% of your car’s harmful carbon emissions every year that you insure with us.

 So you can be kinder to the environment without compromising on quality or value.

Some of the benefits included in our policies as standard are:

• 100% offset of your car’s emissions
• Guaranteed courtesy car with comprehensive policies*
• 90 days European cover included as standard
• 24 hour accident and windscreen claims line
• 5% of our profits are donated to charity – helping others
• Special customer offers and discounts throughout the year

 Special offer for Ethical Junction members: Get £35 off any car insurance policy from The Green Insurance Company

How to order:

Click here for a quick quote. To redeem your £35 discount simply enter the promotional code ‘ETHICAL’ when you purchase your policy online or call 0844 842 5438 where one of our friendly team will be happy to help. Simply give them your discount code.

Terms and Conditions

The Green Insurance Company is an insurance intermediary, authorised and regulated by the Financial Services Authority. Registered address: 1 Masterton Way, Tannochside Business Park, Glasgow, G71 5PU. Qualifying criteria, terms and conditions apply.  These will be explained before you buy.  For your protection and ours, calls may be recorded or monitored. This offer is valid until 31/01/2011, and is open to new customers only, buying directly from The Green Insurance Company.

* Provided an approved repairer is used.

The Green Insurance Company is an active member of Ethical Junction, learn more

As many of us start to turn our thoughts to the end of winter and that inevitable spring clean we thought it was time to give you a blooming great offer to help put a spring into your spring clean so we teamed up with Ecover to offer you a 3 for 2 on their great value 5L sizes – a cleaner clean has never been such great value.

Choose any three of the below products and you can get the cheapest absolutely free.

• Ecover 5L Shower Gel
• Ecover Non-Bio Laundry Liquid 5L
• Ecover Original Washing Powder 10kg
• Ecover Toilet Cleaner 5L
• Ecover Washing Up Liquid 5L
• Ecover All Purpose Cleaner 5L
• Ecover Delicate Laundry Liquid 5L
• Ecover Fabric Softener 5L
• Ecover Floor Cleaner 5L
• Ecover Hand Soap 5L

Click here to see details of the Ecover 3 for 2 offer

You can also until stocks last get 10% off Ecover Laundry Tablets

Offer ends on the 26^th March 2010.

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Celebrate Fairtrade Fortnight and receive 20% off all items with free UK delivery for orders over £50.

Simply enter FF2010 in the Discount Voucher Code box in the shopping cart for 20% discount!!

Offer starts 22 February and ends 7 March 2010.

Buy online at www.ambanature.co.uk

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Good Green Gifts is offering all ethical pulse readers a special 12 days of christmas discount. When shopping at Good Green Gifts, readers can enter the code 12DAYS when they reach checkout and they will receive a random discount ranging from 5% to 40% on their Christmas shopping. The offer runs until 19th December (last pre Christmas shopping day).

This year’s hot Christmas buys are:

  1) A fairly traded safari animal

2) Sustainably produced solitaire

3) A deer garden kneeler

4) Mr Robothead (wind up flashing toy)

5) A lovely handmade cosy tea cosy

Good Green Gifts is an active member of Ethical Junction, learn more

MERRY CHRISTMAS FROM EVERYONE AT THE ECOVILLAGE!

ETHICAL JUNCTION MEMBERS SAVE MONEY AND RESERVE YOUR SPACE NOW!
We know that VAT will be going back up to 17.5% in 2010, but if you book an exhibition space with us at any of our 2010 shows you can avoid the VAT increase of 2.5% and save 5% with our early booking discount.  Plus, pay your deposit now and the rest won’t be due until 1 March 2010! This will apply to all events booked with us by 18th December (booking form and deposit by then).  Email Amanda for more information and to book your space, or call us on 01227 271261.

We just wanted to say a big thank you to our exhibitors and supporters over the past year, and to wish you all a very Merry Christmas, a Happy New Year, and a very successful 2010!  We’ll be taking a couple of weeks off over Christmas and hoping that our families remember who we are, but we’ll be back with new energy and enthusiasm for all things EcoVillage in the New Year!

In this newsletter:

• Kent County Fair, Hop Farm 2010 confirmed
• Riverford Organics confirmed as sponsors
• Latest exhibitors
• What are we doing at The EcoVillage
• Green News Updates
  

LATEST EVENT CONFIRMED – KENT COUNTY FAIR
1st, 2nd & 3rd May 2010
For those of you who like an event early on in the year to get business going, we will now be at Kent County Fair, held at the Hop Farm, Paddock Wood. The Kent County Fair is a great family day out, with over 15,000 visitors attracted in 2009.  This years fair will feature a Garden Zone, Extreme Zone and tank and quad bike ride, as well as our own EcoVillage area, with space for over 50 exhibitors and demonstrators.  See www.thehopfarm.co.uk for more information on the venue – in itself a great day out for families, with the Hop Farm Museum, Adventure Playground, animals and Fun Fair just some of the attractions.
Contact us for a Trade Information Pack for this event.  

RIVERFORD ORGANIC CONFIRMED AS SPONSOR FOR THE KENT SHOW
We’re really pleased to be working with Riverford Organic as a sponsor for our picnic area at the Kent County Show.  Riverford have been an exhibitor with us from the first EcoVillage, and had great success last year signing customers up to their veg box scheme, exceeding their targets for the weekend.  This year they will be taking over our picnic area, with cookery demonstrations and the Riverford Veg team will be showing their products and services.  There will be a special show offer for customers who sign up for one of their veg boxes at the Show.  And, we are pleased to say that Riverford on the Move will be serving delicious organic food throughout the Show from breakfast onwards – great news for our exhibitors and visitors alike!

LATEST EXHIBITORS
Welcome to: Space Shuffle, Wild Thing Wildlife Consultants, Charity Bank, Eternal Energy, Energy Savings Trust, SEAT and Kidz Organic – all of whom have taken advantage of our early booking discounts and have secured their space for next year.

WHAT ARE WE DOING AT THE ECOVILLAGE?
Well, we’ve all survived the first recession year that many of our businesses have been through, and we’re looking to the future. Here at The EcoVillage we are confident that we have a strong, sustainable business here running events which support green business.  So we have increased the number of events we will be running in 2010, and are looking for new opportunities for 2011.  We intend to build this platform, increasing awareness of our brand, and your businesses and develop a strong online marketing presence to support the customer facing events that you attend with us.  We would like to see green businesses become so mainstream that no one needs The EcoVillage any more!

We are especially pleased to bring on board the South of England Show as the Showground itself is already exploring ways of lowering its resource requirements and environmental impact.

We are also conscious that as a company we should be looking to our own environmental impact.  The EcoVillage is run with no central office and unnecessary commuter journeys. We use an online office, skype and car sharing where possible. We minimise our resource use and recycle all office consumables wherever it is possible. We all balance our work lives with the needs of our families and we do believe that what we do now directly affects the legacy we leave for our children. In 2010 we will be tracking the CO2 emissions of our business so that we have absolute figures to work on reducing.  Although we are a small company we still believe that we should do what we can.

If you know of an event you think we should be looking at, please do let us know.  Or if you have any questions or comments, please email us and let us know. Thanks!

LATEST GREEN NEWS

Creating a better place, the latest from the Environment Agency

UK wind energy sector receives £1.4bn injection

Big profit from nature protection

Why Copenhagen Matters to Kent

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1 Less Car have extended their reduction on all of their multi-coloured High Viz Jackets, with sizes from tiny tots to adults, down to less than half price until the end of December.

So if you’re needing an ethical Xmas present for that cyclist who has everything, now’s the time to snap one up!

Jackets come in 5 colours –red, green yellow, pink or orange, and range from sizes to fit 3-4 year old tots carried on the back of a bike, right up to extra large. And they’re not made in a sweatshop.

To have a look, find us at www.1lesscar.org.uk or on our page at Ethical Junction.

For orders before 3.00pm , we post them the same day 1^st class.  And we can get them to you for Xmas if ordered up to Monday 21st December.

1 Less Car is an active member of Ethical Junction, learn more

Three great Ecover offers exclusively on BigGreenSmile.com.

Until the 11th December we are exclusively offering:

1 - Buy 2 packs of Ecover Dishwasher tablets get a bottle Ecover Rinse Aid absolutely free. See details here

2 – Buy either the new Citrus and Orange Blossom or Lavender 1L refill Hand Soap get the same fragrance 250ml with pump, worth £3.34 absolutely free. See Ecover soap promotion details here

3 – 20% off any purchase of the 1L Ecover Washing Up Liquid. Choose from Chamomile and Marigold, Lemon and Aloe Vera or Grapefruit and Green Tea. See Ecover Washing Up Liquid offer details here

Big Green Smile is an active member of Ethical Junction, learn more

Plush Pants Cloth Nappies has 10% off all Tots Bots Reusable Nappies during November.  The award winning Tots Bots nappies are available in several styles including cotton, organic cotton, bamboo, pocket and all in one nappies.  All Tots Bots nappies are manufactured in Scotland, and Tots Bots recently achieved an Ethicscore of 16/20 from Ethical Consumer, the highest rated nappy company! (Pampers by comparison scored just 0.5/20.)

Our sister website, www.TerryNappies.co.uk, is celebrating it’s first birthday, and offering customers a special birthday discount of 10% when they quote Happy Birthday at the checkout.  Terry Nappies was launched in October 2008 offering specialist advice for parents wishing to use traditional terry squares, with detailed free online folding instructions and helpful information for parents, Terry Nappies consistently enjoys the number one spot on Google.