A special evening of Last Minute Ethical Christmas Shopping!
18th December 2008 from 4pm – 8.30pm
2 Belgrave Square, London SW1X 8PJ

Ethical, fair trade and organic products from Latin America and around the world!

Christmas gifts, Quality Arts & Crafts, Stylish Ethical Fashion, Fine Jewellery, Live Music, Raffle, Global food, Mulled wine. Come and support independent producers by shopping for your Christmas gifts at Canning House; enjoy food & drink & live music from Latin America all on the same night! FREE Entrance.

If you are an ethical trader and are interested in having a stall then contact Claire McIntyre on 020 7235 2303 ext 222 

Do you consider yourself to be small?

Do you want more people to see what you’ve got?

Would you like what you’ve got to grow some more?

Well, we can help . . .

LITTLE guys with BIG ideas can now advertise
for SMALL change in Sustained!

The new look Sustained Magazine has a doubled readership of 60,000 and comes in a bigger, full colour format. Still run by the same small team, they’ve just created a new small ads section where you can advertise for as little as £50.

Small price – big response
And what do you get for such a tiny sum? Well, you get a substantial space measuring 40mm x 30mm and all in glorious technicolour. Well hello!

Huge discount for a few words
To celebrate the launch of this new section the first 10 people to send an email to littleguy@sustainedmagazine.com completing the following sentence can claim their spot HALF Price. ‘Small is best because . . .’

So does size matter?
Well yes it does actually. Hard working entrepreneurs account for 37 per cent of total business turnover and small businesses contribute over £1bn to the UK economy.

For more information on this offer, or any advertising in Sustained, call Marc, ‘the little guy’ on 07973 435483 or 01206 574147.

Sustained
Small Change, Big Difference

Seven Magazine addresses key issues from the seven continents. It is a magazine for politically conscious men and women with an interest in the international arts.

In this issue Seven interviews director Rachel Wang about the documentary, Afro Saxons (co-directed by Mark Currie, we should add). We hope that its success will help the film to secure the major distribution it deserves.

Reverse graffiti is something we should all get into. And it looks fantastic.

Michelle Obama has got the intelligence and class to become a truly great first lady, and she’s helping to close the deal for her husband, Barack Obama.

Danielle Belton, AKA The Black Snob, gives us her observations about the final US presidential debate between Barack Obama and John McCain.

Adam Mitchell shares his views on the USA’s war on drugs in Bolivia.

Stephen Mayne explores the ongoing debate over the impact of the entertainment industry on crime rates.

Lucy Portsmouth explores the changing roles of women.

Bonnie Friend explains why Love Does Grow on Trees is one of the films to see at the BFI 52nd London Film Festival.

My Greener Home, the environmental company that saves you money, have launched a new product: the Eco Showerdrop. My Greener Home’s price is £11.95 incl. VAT.

The Eco Showerdrop helps you stop wasting water and energy in the shower. The Eco Showerdrop could save you £180 each year. It uses a digital display to show you the amount of water your shower is using, and when you have reached the recommended 35 litres of water. It can be installed in a matter of minutes by anyone.

We all think we are saving money having a shower, but how often have you been day dreaming and twenty minutes later, you have used up huge amounts of hot water.

A standard bath holds between 80 and 100 litres of water, and conventional wisdom suggests that we save water by taking showers instead of baths. Modern power showers can easily use over 20 litres of water each minute. That means that your shower could use up 100 litres of water in just five minutes. If you stand around contemplating the day ahead in these showers you will definitely be worse off than if you had a bath. The Eco Showerdrop wakes you up to the need to save water and money.

The NGO Waterwise did a survey at the end of 2007 in which they calculated that the average shower used around 64 litres of water. However Waterwise and leading water suppliers calculate that 35 litres is sufficient to have a really good shower. With different water pressures and different shower heads, the flow of water varies between showers so measuring time alone won’t tell you how much water has been used.

Using calculations verified by Waterwise and the Energy Saving Trust (which assume a 7.2 minute shower and 9 litres/minute flow rate), the Eco Showerdrop could save the average family of four £180 each year in water and water heating bills, and save 40,000 litres of water. That is the equivalent to reducing your carbon footprint by 2/3 of a tonne.

Visit My Greener Home Website or call 020 8133 9002

Sustained magazine’s BE Close editor, founder of InterNational Downshifting Week and author of The Book of Rubbish Ideas, Tracey Smith, is licking her lips in anticipation of this year’s Organic Food Festival in Bristol on 6-7 September.

Set in Bristol’s famous harbourside it’s Europe’s largest celebration
of all things organic, incorporating bustling food markets, the very
best organic food, drink, fashion, skincare and homeware products, the
green planet pavilion, a talks programme, demonstration kitchen, food
cruises around the harbour, and an arts and entertainment fringe!

If you’re heading there with the family there’s loads more planned for kids this year, with Organix sponsoring the Children’s Zone and such delights as the Food For Life Cookery Bus and the Whole Earth Food Trail, whilst the Demo Kitchen returns with a serious programme of culinary arts.

Wander into the Fashion and Textile Marquee and see how a sheep’s fleece is turned into a garment. Cornish Organic Wool is supplying organic fleece from Bosigran Farm, Zennor (recent winners at The Royal Cornwall Show in the fleece competition), which will be carded, spun and knitted by Spinning Weal from Clevedon, Somerset. Visitors are very welcome to come and have a go at carding, spinning and knitting.

Neal’s Yard Remedies have their own dedicated skincare marquee with an area set aside to offer visitors a mini vitality MOT. Customers will find out their plant vitality profile – a driven and ambitious shoot, a creative flower, a nurturing seed or a contemplative root. From this, a specialist will examine skin vitality and provide tips on how to improve skin and life vitality.

This year Neal’s Yard Remedies will be hosting a special talks and workshop
area on their stand, where there will be practical talks on anti-aging through to the natural approach for mothers and babies, with celebrity presenter on the Steve Wright Show and Sustained’s BE You editor, Janey Lee Grace, author of the bestselling Imperfectly Natural series.

There’s much more besides, oh yes, and I’ll be on the Alistair Sawday’s stand signing copies of my hot off the press eco-read, The Book of Rubbish Ideas ….

Visit the Soil Association website for further information and I’ll look forward to seeing you there!

TSx

The above it taken from Tracey’s blog at Sustained magazine