Mummydeli.com proudly introduces their unique carbon neutral home delivery.  A one stop online shop offering top products for the entire family.

A huge range of top brand organic baby and children’s food including a wide variety of frozen purees for baby and delicious healthy meals for older children.  Snacks, finger foods and hard to find milk formulas, biodegradable nappies and wipes, along with various natural and organic toiletries for the entire family.  A gift selection of special luxury items and gift sets to satisfy the most discerning of tastes.

A section dedicated exclusively to mummy!  Offering a range of items to help through pregnancy and beyond.  Practical or pampering the importance is the same.

All products are carefully selected using a strict criteria of natural, sustainable, local, hand made, ethical and-or organic. Designed for the busy parent not wanting to compromise a healthy quality of life for their family.  Mummydeli.com offers a solution that is very simple and efficient.

Now just £640! 30% off 5 day pilates and Italian cooking holiday - exclusive to responsibletravel.com – 20 – 24 March
Take both Pilates and Italian cooking courses in a unique double activity holiday at this old farmhouse set within its own certified organic vineyard and kitchen gardens overlooking hilltop villages in Piedmont. Price includes luxurious accommodation, all meals, free flowing wine, cooking and pilates sessions, plus visit to the local market and traditional Italian Easter Sunday lunch at local restaurant.

Whale shark scuba diving holiday in Thailand  - £527 per person, all inclusive – departs 24 March
This research and conservation project is unlike other scuba diving holidays. You’ll have the chance to swim with and record whale shark activity in Thailand’s Andaman Sea. Participants will stay at the beach resort on Koh Phra Thong, the closest land mass to the Surin Island’s National Park and Richelieu Rock.

Using technology adapted from NASA’s star mapping software, underwater photographs taken by the participants are entered into the database for tracking and identification. Participants should have a PADI qualification or equivalent. Price includes accommodation, all meals, boat transfers and six dives. Six percent of the package price is donated to Ecocean to assist in their research. 

£267 for two nights Easter hill-walking package in Leitrim self catering apartment, Ireland - departs 23 March
Celebrate St Patrick’s Day a week later and spend 2 days on guided walks in the stunning North Leitrim Glens. This trip is part of the North Leitrim Glens Hillwalking festival which is run on a voluntary basis by the local community.  Price includes 2 nights accommodation and one evening meal in a local pub. Cost based on two sharing. Just £38 extra for additional people (up to four people).

Puerto Escondido beach resort in Mexico  - just £375 for one week all-inclusive between 24 March – 31 May
Stay at this new family owned hotel on the Pacific coast of Oaxaca. Relax by the pool, read in the hammocks, stroll along the beach or enjoy the on-site thatched restaurant with bar, which serves local, healthy food. Price includes accommodation, all meals and drinks and is based on two people sharing.

During the restoration of the abbey buildings the developers have gone to great lengths to protect the wildlife with heated bat boxes constructed in several of the loft spaces and within trees around the grounds.

Fourteen days Brazilian beach getaway – £1,640 per person, including flights from UK 

About responsibletravel.com:
responsibletravel.com is an online travel directory – based in Brighton, England – launched in 2001 for travellers who want more real and authentic holidays that also benefit the environment and local people. responsibletravel.com markets carefully pre-screened, handpicked holidays from over 265 specialist operators and over 600 accommodations.

Easter is fast approaching and it is therefore timely to consider the waste and health issues behind this festival of indulgence and consumerism, as well as the enormous animal cruelty prevalent in every box of hen’s, duck’s, geese and other bird’s eggs we pop open.

Since the Egg Marketing Board coined the famous "go to work on an egg" advertising slogan in the 1950s, the number of eggs consumed annually in the UK is now 10 billion – with 10% of these imported from Spain.  Whilst free range eggs are on the increase, it is still important to realize that even vegetarians eating eggs are sanctioning the slaughter of hens for food – female chicks grow into laying hens but male chicks are an unwanted by-product of the egg industry, with 40 million day-old male chicks in the UK and 200 million in the USA either gassed or minced alive each year, and turned into fertilizers and chicken food.   

As you can see, forcing farmed animals to become cannibals isn’t just confined to cows, pigs and sheep – one of the theories behind bird flu is the feeding of spent hens to broiler chickens (the ones we eat) and laying hens.  Once hens have outlived their usefulness (usually due to chronic illness such as osteoporosis or a prolapsed womb) these are slaughtered and used in soups, stock cubes and even baby food.  Even the free range industry disposes of spent hens and male chicks in this way.  

The least cruel way of enjoying your sunny-side ups in the morning would be to keep your own chickens in the back garden – or try scrambled tofu (soya bean curd) instead – an excellent vegan staple which substitutes well for eggs and is full of protein, zinc and calcium, with no cholesterol.  Many people who haven’t discovered the delights of tofu would find that less than appetizing but I really do wonder what could possibly be more unpalatable than eating what is in effect the end result of a chicken’s menstrual cycle?

If personal health is an issue, then you’ll certainly want to steer clear of chocolate eggs this year.  Britons gorge their way through a whopping 9kg of chocolate a year – each – that’s about three bars a week, and it’s estimated that the average 11 year old will consume around 10,000 calories worth of chocolate during the Easter holidays.  Whilst milk chocolate does contain important elements such as iron and calcium, it also harbours around 25% saturated fat.  And whilst our lucky Western children tuck into these chocolate delights, spare a thought for the 12,000 children who have been trafficked as slaves on farms in West Africa growing the main ingredient – cocoa (which reminds me – non-organically grown cocoa beans are sprayed liberally with the usual nasty fungicides and pesticides which can leave residues). 

Isn’t it ironic too, that the two most important religious festivals in the Christian calendar are so damaging to the very planet God created – Easter egg packaging accounts for 4,000 tonnes of cardboard and 160 tonnes of foil waste in the UK alone and, despite the EU Packaging & Waste Directive, Easter eggs are encased in large amounts of packaging which actually accounts for half the price you pay for it.  Last year, the worst offenders were the KitKat egg at 50% packaging, the Aero egg with a third of its weight packaging, and the Simpsons egg a whopping 40% cardboard, plastic and foil.  Good alternatives are chocolate bunnies and crème eggs as they are simply wrapped in foil, or why not make your own Easter cakes at home?   And on that note I’m off to scramble a soya bean! 

Some not so eggs-ellent facts: 

• Fry’s made the first chocolate Easter egg in 1873 – and it was solid chocolate!
• 80 million chocolate eggs were sold in the UK in 2007
• Damaged eggs from the factory production line are recycled and made into Smarties!
• £336 million spent each year on Easter chocolate – with only £75 million of this fair trade
• £15 million spent on Easter cards
• Battery and free range hens produce around 300 eggs per year compared with 10 – 12 in the wild
• There are 28 million laying hens in the UK
• 90% of these will have broken bones from osteoporosis by the time they are slaughtered.

 Lisa Jackson runs her own ethical communications company and is a writer and campaigner for environmental and ethical issues  www.eurydicepr.co.uk

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Some of the books we publish are immediate and continuing successes, while others take time for the business and political agenda to catch up with their discourse. Over the last few months we have seen growing interest in some of our older books and ten of these titles are now on offer until the end of March. See below for details.

Business and Human Rights: Dilemmas and Solutions

Edited by Rory Sullivan
336 pp | 234 x 156 mm | paperback | ISBN 978-1-874719-81-6
Published November 2003 | List price: GBP19.95 EUR29.95 USD40.00

Companies, seizing the opportunities presented by globalisation, have found themselves operating in countries where corruption, injustice, internal conflict and human rights violations are rife. How do they organise themselves to respond to these challenges?

"Too often practitioners have relied on the crystal ball; now, at last we have the book." Corporate Citizenship Briefing

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The Business of Climate Change: Corporate Responses to Kyoto

Edited by Kathryn Begg, Frans van der Woerd and David Levy
284 pp | 234 x 156 mm | hardback | ISBN 978-1-874719-57-1
Published March 2005 | List price: GBP40.00 EUR60.00 USD75.00

"An indispensable guide for companies eager to find best practice and for policy-makers who want to drive change." Corporate Citizenship Briefing

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Governance of Integrated Product Policy: In Search of Sustainable Production and Consumption

Edited by Dirk Scheer and Frieder Rubik
377 pp | 234 x 156 mm | hardback | ISBN 978-1-874719-32-8
Published February 2006 | List price: GBP35.00 EUR47.50 USD65.00

"an excellent overview of why transformation from idea to government policy for the marketplace is complicated and requires new governance models … a great overview of the variety of product policy approaches … also invaluable for setting policy development within a larger framework and identifying policy mixes which haven’t worked … GL appreciates this book for its reality check." Gallon Environmental Letter

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Governance and Sustainability: New Challenges for States, Companies and Civil Society

Edited by Ulrich Petschow, James Rosenau and Ernst Ulrich von Weizsäcker
245 pp | 234 x 156 mm | hardback | ISBN 978-1-874719-79-3
Published December 2005 | List price: GBP40.00 EUR60.00 USD75.00

Sustainability cannot be achieved without good governance. This book examines the possibilities of integrating the environmental, social and economic dimensions of sustainable development within the framework of governance processes and how that might steer societies towards sustainability.

"The book has much to commend it and is well worth library purchase and some time spent in systematic study." Social and Environmental Accounting Journal

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Responsible Investment

Edited by Rory Sullivan and Craig Mackenzie
382 pp | 234 x 156 mm | hardback | ISBN 978-1-874719-03-8
Published December 2005 | List price: GBP45.00 EUR67.50 USD85.00

"[The] editors are to be applauded … for corralling such a wide-ranging, intelligent, and experienced group of writers" Bill Baue

"This is a book that no professional, academic, or student with an interest in the emerging field of responsible investment will want to be without." Ethical Performance

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Strategic Sustainability: The State of the Art in Corporate Environmental Management Systems

Edited by Robert Sroufe and Joseph Sarkis
288 pp | 234 x 156 mm | hardback | ISBN 978-1-874719-61-8
Published May 2007 | List price: GBP35.00 EUR52.50 USD65.00

This book provides intriguing insights into strategic and sustainable EMSs. It provides clear evidence of benefits that should exceed the costs (tangible and otherwise), and help practitioners understand the attributes of well-developed and strategically focused EMSs.

"This thoughtful, detailed, and useful book demonstrates that good environmental management is good business practice." Kurt Fischer, The Greening of Industry Network

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New Business for Old Europe: Product-Service Development, Competitiveness and Sustainability

Edited by Arnold Tukker and Ursula Tischner
479 pp | 234 x 156 mm | hardback | ISBN 978-1-874719-92-2
Published September 2006 | List price: GBP35.00 EUR47.50 USD65.00

Companies need to switch their focus to selling need fulfilment, satisfaction, or experiences. In other words, selling integrated solutions or product-services. In a losing battle to compete purely on price with emerging and low-cost economies such as China, product-services can mean new business for old Europe.

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Societal Learning and Change: How Governments, Business and Civil Society are Creating Solutions to Complex Multi-Stakeholder Problems

Steve Waddell
164 pp | 234 x 156 mm | Published May 2005
hardback: ISBN 978-1-874719-88-5 | List price: GBP35.00 EUR47.50 USD65.00
paperback: ISBN 978-1-874719-93-9 | List price: GBP19.95 EUR29.95 USD40.00

"SLC is a brave and timely step forward, showing us that we can create solutions through enhanced engagement and the re-framing of issues for the common good." Sophie Constance, ECOS: Australia’s magazine on Sustainability

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The Business of Water and Sustainable Development

Edited by Jonathan Chenoweth and Juliet Bird
277 pp | 234 x 156 mm | hardback | ISBN 978-1-874719-30-4
Published August 2005 | List price: GBP40.00 EUR60.00 USD75.00

The Johannesburg Plan of Implementation will pose formidable challenges given the predicted growth in global population: by the end of just a decade and half, 6.6 billion people will need to have access to safe drinking water supplies. This is more than the current population of the world. This book illustrates the range of approaches necessary to meet such brave ambitions.

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The Business of Sustainable Mobility: From Vision to Reality

Edited by Paul Nieuwenhuis, Philip Vergragt and Peter Wells
256 pp | 234 x 156 mm | hardback | ISBN 978-1-874719-80-9
Published June 2006 | List price: GBP40.00 EUR60.00 USD75.00

Mobility is in crisis, but few seem aware of the full extent of it. This book shows that ‘technology’ may well not be enough in itself and that for a genuinely sustainable transport future far more radical change – affecting many aspects of society – is needed.

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For further information on any of the above, please contact:
Jayney Bown
Greenleaf Publishing
Aizlewood’s Mill
Nursery Street
Sheffield S3 8GG
UK
Tel: +44 (0)114 282 3475
Fax: +44 (0)114 282 3476
www.greenleaf-publishing.com

Animal Aid – the UK’s largest organisation campaigning on behalf of animals – has launched a nationwide poetry and art competition encouraging young people (aged 11-18 years) to express their own opinions on the controversial issue of factory farming – a topic highlighted recently by celebrity chefs Jamie Oliver and Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall. The organisation hopes to encourage young people to research what happens on intensive farms, and to feel inspired to create powerful poetry and passionate art pieces.
 
The winning entries will be displayed at a London event in July, where TV presenter Wendy Turner-Webster will award the winners their prizes, which include a games console, ipod and digital camera.

The competition has been launched as part of Animal Aid’s high profile initiative – Veggie Month – that takes place each March and is open to all young people across the country.

Says Veggie Month Coordinator Kelly Slade:
‘Eleven to eighteen is a perfect age to start thinking about where food comes from and for making important decisions that will not only benefit animals, but human health and the environment too. Young people are passionate about fair treatment for animals and I hope that this competition will spark discussion and thought, as well as produce some exciting and imaginative results.’

Dear Ethical Junction Members,

We about to close sales on Issue 2 of LONDON GREEN NEWS but we still have a few spaces remaining on the back page going for ONLY £90!!!!!!!! (no VAT to pay). This is reduced from the original offer price of £200 – which already represented a discount!

Advert size is 57mm X 57mm. Please contact shasha.khan@greenparty.org.uk for a booking form – NOW!

Key points for your attention:

•    London Green News is the exciting new London wide full colour tabloid newspaper from the Green Party. Issue 1 came out in December and was distributed to 170,000 households.
•    Issue 2 will be distributed to 340,000 households. These households have been identified using market research companies and polling data as likely to shop ‘green’ and vote Green.

•    This is a chance to highlight your brand to seasoned ‘green shoppers’ plus a customer base who are still finding their way through the ‘socially responsible sector’.
•    Appearing in this newspaper is an endorsement from the Green Party that you are a ‘good’ company and share their ethical and environmental values.

•    Interest in the Green Party and all things ‘green’ is growing. This next issue comes out in March which is in the run up to the London Mayoral elections in May. The Green Party has an excellent candidate in Sian Berry (http://sianformayor.org.uk/) who is generating lots of attention.
•    With 340,000 households receiving London Green News, this enables your product or service to be marketed to a million people.

•    This newspaper will also be available at ‘green’ events in London.

•    A PDF of issue 1 is available upon request – please email shasha_khan@hotmail.com for a 5 meg file

Incidentally, advertising space on the inside of the paper is more or less tidied up – although a couple of opportunities remain.
We need these spaces filled so don’t hesitate and email us or call us now.
Best wishes, Shasha Khan
07982 788 563

March is Animal Aid’s Veggie Month – a time when people are encouraged to find out more about the many benefits of switching to a meat-free diet. Choosing to go vegetarian is an easy, healthy and environmentally friendly step. It is also essential for those who genuinely care about animals. This is why the national campaign group has challenged celebrity chefs Jamie Oliver and Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall to try the veggie diet for a week or a month.

Animal Aid was encouraged by the recent campaigns by the high-profile chefs, which exposed the terrible plight of farmed animals. However, the chefs’ attempts to alleviate animal suffering by promoting ‘high welfare’ production systems can only ever have a marginal impact on their welfare and does not mean the consumer can rest easy. The fundamental problem is treating animals as commodities, which Animal Aid believes is unnecessary, cruel and immoral. In a letter to Jamie and Hugh, Animal Aid’s Director, Andrew Tyler wrote: 

‘There will always be a niche market for less roughly-processed chickens, but for so long as animals are mass produced, fattened, transported and killed for food products, then those engaged in such activities will obey the rules of the market place and seek to reduce unit costs and maximise output. These cardinal rules of the marketplace translate inexorably into animal suffering.’

Says Animal Aid Veggie Month Co-ordinator, Kelly Slade:
‘Tinkering with irredeemably cruel production systems might salve consciences but those who really care opt for a plant-based diet free from animal products. Making the switch is not only easy, but it is essential in order to put an end to animal suffering and make more efficient use of agricultural land. We do not need to eat animals to live healthy lives. In fact, vegetarians have a longer life expectancy because they tend to have lower rates of diet-related diseases, such as obesity, heart disease, diabetes and some cancers.’

 
Free Go Veggie packs, which include meat-free recipes are available from info@animalaid.org.uk or by calling 01732 364546. And don’t forget to visit the veggie month site for more info and a chance to enter a competition to win a veggie hamper

This week it’s Barack Obama & David Beckham in the same eco blog?
Did I ever think I write about those two unlikely blog fellows in the same week!
NO!
www.howgreenisyourlife.co.uk

Alexandra