We have some great promotions available at the moment which offer great value and are exclusively available at BigGreenSmile.com

Buy 1 Get 1 Free

Exclusive
Buy 1 Get 1 Free offer until stocks last on selected JASON Natural
Shampoo & Conditioners. Choose any two shampoos or conditioners of
your choice and get the cheapest item absolutely free.

Choose
from Natural Sea Kelp, Natural Jojoba, Aloe Vera, Organic Apricot,
Organic Biotin, Organic Henna Hi-Lights, Organic Lavender or Vitamin E
with A & C Shampoos and Conditioners.

http://www.biggreensmile.com/promotions/jason-shampoo-conditioner-offer-sep09.aspx?promotion=3
Buy 3 for the price of 2
Exclusively at BigGreenSmile.com we are offering 3 for 2 across the whole range of Organic Surge products.  

Buy any three Organic Surge items of your choice and get the cheapest item absolutely free.

http://www.biggreensmile.com/promotions/organic-surge-special-offer-sep09.aspx?promotion=4

Free Gift

Fancy
a free Organic Calendula & Lavender Soap? Handmade in Norfolk by
Simply Soaps we are giving away a free soap with every purchase of any
of our Hedgerow Herbals gift sets.

Choose any from the Faerie Gift Set, the MMM, OOO or ZZZ gift sets.

http://www.biggreensmile.com/promotions/hedgerow-herbals-free-simply-soaps-sep09.aspx?promotion=2

Free This Works Gift

Buy any two selected This Works products of your choice and we will send you a This Works Clean Skin worth £20 absolutely free!

You
can choose from 8 luxury This Works products including the best selling
Perfect Cleavage, the Skin Deep Dry Leg Oil, Active Oil, Really Rich
Lotion, Stretch Mark Oil, Super Moist, Energy Bank Bath & Shower
Oil and the In the Zone Bath & Shower Oil. 

Offer available while stocks last.

http://www.biggreensmile.com/promotions/this-works-free-clean-skin-special-offer-sep09.aspx?promotion=5

These offers are available for the next month or until stocks last.

Over the last few weeks the team at BeMoreEco have been blogging about great place to go this summer for your eco holiday. Also, in co-operation, EcoTrendSpotter have also reviewed what essential eco items you made need to take with you on you eco summer holiday. Below we have detailed all the post that have been submitted.

Travel Guides by BeMoreEco

• Eco holidays for Singles
• Eco holidays for Couples
• Eco holidays for Families

Buying Guides by EcoTrendSpotter

• Essential Holiday Gadgets
• Essential items for you Eco Washbag
• Items for your Eco Beach Trip
• Eco Health Care

If
you fancy treating yourself to some organic goodies, now is definitely the time
to buy as for 1 week only, So Organic are offering you FREE
DELIVERY when you spend over £30*. Just choose your
products, then enter code ENAB69 in the coupon code box at
checkout and the delivery charge will be deducted. *excluding p&p to qualify.   

Offer
ends 30th
June 2009

Click here to order.

Ethical Junction member Bags of Change has some Weleda goodies to give away.
Buy a Bags of Change eco shopping bag via www.bagsofchange.co.uk and get a FREE full size Weleda Sea Buckthorn Creamy Body Wash (RRP £6.95) with your order. 
Plus, your new bag will get you discounts at some of the UK’s best ethical independents - saving you up to 10% off your shopping basket every time you shop.

Weleda’s
Sea Buckthorn Creamy Body Wash is a revitalising blend of
antioxidant-rich biodynamic sea buckthorn oil and oranges, mandarins
and grapefruit from pure essential oils.
Sea
buckthorn is a particularly nourishing oil and a rich source of
anti-ageing pro-vitamin A and vitamin E. Sea buckthorn encourages
cutaneous cell-renewal thereby assisting the skin’s natural
regeneration. Gentle on the skin as well as the environment.

According to online travel agent responsibletravel.com, holidaymakers’ confidence has improved over the last three months as almost a fifth
(19%) of its total customers have gone ‘late’ and spontaneously
enquired and departed within a four week period. Furthermore, over a third (37%) of customers have travelled within eight weeks of first enquiring about their holiday.

These four week late booking figures reflect a rise of almost a third (31%) compared to the same period last year and almost a fifth (20%) for eight week late bookings.

The increase comes at a time when tour operators and airlines have
already reduced capacity for the upcoming season and across the year in
general. The late availability holiday deals that are on offer are
being snapped up fast and according to Justin Francis, managing
director of responsibletravel.com, it marks a pronounced increase in consumer confidence:

“There is no doubt that times were tough over the winter and
consumer confidence was severely affected as a result. However, these
figures are a sign that holidaymakers’ confidence is definitely
improving. While it’s far too early to call an end to what might be a
long recession it’s clear that in recent weeks more people are coming
into the summer market looking to book and depart at short notice. Some
will be disappointed that they cannot get their first or even second
choice holidays as airline capacity has been reduced.”

 Those countries topping the list for late bookings are: England; Italy; Morocco; Spain; France; Turkey; Wales and Greece.

responsibletravel.com
work with over 300 tour operators across the globe, from small
specialist operators to some of the larger, more mainstream travel
providers.

See

www.responsibletravel.com/latedeals 

The Honda Insight, a new family-sized hybrid that is already providing stiff competition for the ubiquitous Toyota Prius, has been named Green Car of the Year 2009 by the Environmental Transport Association (ETA).

The least green car was found to be the 8-litre Dodge SRT-10 sports car. A year’s driving in the Dodge emits the same amount of CO2 as is absorbed by 322 mature trees – the equivalent of an acre of oak forest. *

The ETA examined over 1300 models of car currently on sale in Britain and compared their power, emissions, fuel efficiency and even the amount of noise they produce to create a definitive guide to buying the greenest vehicle.

A fully searchable database of the results and full details on each car will be published at www.greencarawards.co.uk on Wednesday 17th June 2009.

Green Transport Week is (13th – 21st June 2009)

Best and worst by category (C02 g/km)

Greenest car overall: HONDA Insight 1.3 IMA ES (101g/km)
Worst(least green) car overall: Dodge SRT-10 (488g/km)
Large Family – best: BMW 3 Series 320d with particulate filter (144g/km)
Large Family – worst : BMW M3 (309g/km)
Supermini        - best: TOYOTA Yaris 1.4 D-4-D 6-speed (109g/km)
Supermini        - worst: RENAULT Clio Renault Sport 200 (195g/km)
Small Family – best: Honda Insight 1.3 IMA ES   (101g/km)
Small Family – worst: VOLKSWAGEN Golf R32 4MOTION (255g/km)
City – best:  TOYOTA iQ 1.0 VVT-i (99g/km)
City – worst:  FORD Ka, Post 2006 1.6 Duratec Sportka (182g/km)
Sports – best: VAUXHALL Tigra 1.3CDTi 16v (124g/km)
Sports – worst: Dodge SRT-10 (488g/km)
MPV – best: S-Max 1.8 Duratorq TDCi (164g/km)
MPV – worst: MERCEDES R-Class R63 AMG (387g/km)
Small MPV        - best: RENAULT Modus 1.5 dCi 86 Quickshift 5 (119g/km)
Small MPV        - worst: MERCEDES Viano 3.5 (284g/km)
Executive – best:       BMW 5 Series 520d saloon with particulate filter (136g/km)Executive – worst:    CADILLAC CTS-V (350g/km)
Off road        - best: SUBARU Outback AWD (153g/km)
Off road        - worst: CADILLAC Escalade 6.2 V8 (383g/km)
Luxury – best: JAGUAR XJ 2.7L Diesel Saloon (209g/km)
Luxury – worst: Bentley Brooklands Coupé (465g/km)

Andrew Davis, director at the Environmental Transport Association,
said: “The discrepancy between the greenest and the least green cars
in Britain today is striking, but the market is changing and a combination
of consumer pressure alongside government leadership will result in
an increasing choice of environmentally-sound cars.”

“The big problem is not the Dodge SRT-10s and Lamborghinis because
there are not many of them on the road,” explains Andrew Davis, director
of the ETA.  ”The concern is that people are continuing to buy cars
that are much too big for their real needs. “

The popularity of large 4×4s like the Porsche Cayenne, which is many
times more damaging to the environment than for example a BMW 320d,
winner in the Large Family Car category, is already on the decrease;
a new system of emissions-based road tax means owners of gas guzzlers
pay over £400 per year.

“With the increasing costs of motoring and the threat to the environment
there has never been a more important time to choose greener cars.”

Why do diesels do well in this survey?
Half an hour of sniffing diesel fumes in a busy city street is enough
to induce a “stress response” in the brain, according to scientists
who measured volunteers. The response continued to increase even after
they had stopped breathing the fumes. There is speculation that the
changes in the brain may trigger other body responses to diesel fumes,
such as oxygen deprivation in the heart. Previous studies in rats
have shown that minuscule soot particles can make their way directly
to the brain via nerves in the nose.

There is a popular belief that because of their lower average CO2
emissions, diesels are better for the planet. Unfortunately it appears
that it is people, particularly those in built-up areas that might
be paying the price.

However, the advent of diesel particulate filters (DPF) such as fitted
to some of the category winners heralds a dramatic improvement in
the environmental rating of diesels. DPFs remove all trace of soot
form the exhaust gases.

How many of these cars are eligible for the scrappage scheme?
Many of the most-polluting cars on British roads, and most of the
worst-performing vehicles in this guide, are  signed up for the
government’s scrappage scheme, an initiative described as ‘green’
because it aims
to replace older vehicles with new, fuel-efficient models. In theory
it means someone who scraps a 1999 Volkswagen Lupo TDi 3L, (81g CO2/km)
and buys a 2009 Bentley Arnage (465g CO2/km) would receive a £1,000
taxpayer-funded payment. The Bentley produces over 5 times as much
CO2 as the smaller car.

The
online, certified organic lifestyle store, So Organic, is running some
fantastic offers on Essential Care products this summer.
For every full size Essential Care facial skin care
product you receive a 30ml Essential Care toner worth £7 FREE.

The OFFERS

Receive
a FREE 30ml
Rose Petal Tonic when you buy a: 

• 150ml Coconut Cleanser
• 50ml Avocado
  Replenishing Cream
• 30ml Superfruit Concentrate
• 100ml Rose Petal
  Tonic

Receive
a FREE 30ml Citric Fruit Tonic
when you buy a:

• 150ml
  Lemon &
  Tea Tree Face Wash
• 75ml First Aid Lotion
• 100ml Citrus Fruit
  Tonic

 Receive
a FREE 30ml Rose Petal Tonic or Citric Fruit Tonic
when you buy a 50ml Rose Moisturiser.

Why
would you like to take So Organic up on this fabulous offer? Essential Care
was the
first skin care range to be awarded the Soil Association’s organic beauty tick
of approval so they know their stuff. Despite their growing popularity Essential Care still produce their
products by hand using formulations that are particularly good for the most super
sensitive skin types. Organic herbs, plant oils and other natural active
ingredients are used to create these very effective products. None of the Essential Care products are tested
on animals and most are suitable for Vegans.

These
offers are only available at So Organic while stocks so hurry
if you’d like one of these gorgeous organic products! 

About So Organic

With
over 2000 products, and of the 50 best organic brands available, So Organic
provide a comprehensive range of quality organic products and award winning
service. The leading organic lifestyle store’s own brand range was recently a
finalist in ‘Top Organic Retailers’
in the 2009 UK Natural and Organic Industry Awards and was Highly Commended in
the 2009 Natural Health Beauty Awards. You can buy online at SoOrganic.com, in the So Organic
Greenwich store or via a freephone telephone number (0800 169 2579). So
Organic’s courier delivery service is carbon neutral, everything comes in
either recycled or compostable packaging and all the gift boxes are fairtrade.