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Green Offers

A selection of green offers from around the UK

We have put together a list of green companies that offer ethical and environmentally friendly products and services, have a look through our Green Pages and see if they can help you choose a greener option in your day to day life. Keep checking back as our Green Pages grow to offer you a wider range of products and services.

• Banking & Insurance
• Lifestyle
• Green Utilities

• This section contains: Banking & Insurance

• ibuyeco® By Sophie Johnson, Marketing

  Save money and do your bit to save the planet - ibuyeco provide 100% carbon neutral car insurance. As well as offering competitive quotes, for every 1kg of CO₂ produced by a car insured with Ibuyeco they will pay for 1kg to be saved by a climate friendly project somewhere else in the world. They also offer claims repairs guaranteed for 3 years, emergency assistance 24 hrs a day, window glass cover and a guaranteed courtesy car for a minimum of 7 days.

  

• The Green Insurance Company By Scott Lescak, Environmental Project Manager

  The Green Insurance Company was launched in August 2007 and already has more than 11,000 customers turned green. It offers car insurance and car insurance related products such as breakdown cover and will fully offset 100% of customer's emissions at no extra cost through tree planting

  

  Customers can get up to a 20% discount online, as well as discounts for low emissions, and low annual mileage. There is also a price beat guarantee for those who drive hybrid or 'green' cars. The website has an emissions calculator to help users roughly calculate their emissions online and a green quiz gives users a chance to see how 'green' they are.

  The Green Aspect

  The Green Insurance Company not only rewards green car owners, but aims to do their bit internally as well. All documents are produced on 100% recycled paper and they email 98% of their policy booklets to customers to cut down on paper and only where necessary (Motor certificate and schedule of insurance) will documents be sent in the post. In addition to this they have a recycling programme to recycle as much as possible.

  Externally they aim to donate 5% of their profits to environmental charities, and also run a refer a friend scheme which after 3 months donates £10 for each policy taken up to the Young People's Trust for the Environment which aims to help educate young children on the environment. In addition to this they are also involved in community projects such as helping plant new trees at local schools.

  Information

  The Green Insurance Company
  PO Box 10078
  Glasgow
  G71 9BG
  Telephone: 0845 272 7602
  Bookmark: http://www.greeninsurancecompany.co.uk

• This section contains: Lifestyle

• Surya the worlds first ecological night club has launched! By Sophie Johnson, Marketing

  Club4Climate have recently launched the worlds first ecological nightclub, Surya has a piezoelectric dance floor that creates energy when danced on. The dance floors contain crystal blocks which generate up to 60 percent of the club's electricity, much of which will go towards powering the air-con.

  

  With its own wind turbine and solar panels, Surya (named after the Hindu sun god) plans to donate surplus electricity to neighbors, making this the first business to provide free energy

  Recycling and reusing is also high on the agenda. Tables are made of magazines, the walls out of old mobile phones, and there's a bathtub that's now used as a sofa. Waterless urinals save 90 gallons of water, and the club gathers rainwater. The wine is also fair-trade and organic.

  Information

  Venue: Surya 156 Pentonville Road, London N19JL, 9pm - 3am

  Cost: £5 entry or FREE if you used public transport or walked!

  Tube: Kings Cross/Angel Bus: 30,73,205,214,476

• Wild Wonders of Europe Profile By Scott Lescak, Environmental Project Manager

  Wild Wonders of Europe is a unique media initiative featuring 59 of Europe's best nature photographers who will be travelling across the many wild and wonderful landscapes that Europe has to offer.

  

  The photographers will be taking awe inspiring photographs of the wildlife that inhabits these areas, and these photographs will be used to document and reveal the amazing natural treasures of the continent.

  The Green Aspect

  Wild Wonders of Europe will be aiming to help the 700 Million Europeans appreciate the beauty on their doorstep, as well as showcase its beauty to them, and the rest of the world through the emotional power of great photography. The project is about the joy of wildness, and what is still out there as well as what is at risk of being lost.

  The project should help all of us realise why our wilderness matters to us, and why we need to protect it. To find out more visit www.wild-wonders.com

  Information

  Wild Wonders of Europe
  Ballintean
  Glenfeshie,
  Kingussie
  PH21 1NX
  Scotland
  Telephone: +44 (0)1540 651352
  Email: florian@wild-wonders.com Bookmark: www.wild-wonders.com

• The Body Shop® By Sophie Johnson, Marketing

  The Body Shop® International plc is a global manufacturer and retailer of naturally inspired, ethically produced beauty and cosmetics products. All products are animal cruelty free, many are made with fairly traded natural ingredients.

  

• Nigel's Eco Store® By Sophie Johnson, Marketing

  Offers a range of environmentally friendly household and lifestyle products for sustainable living, including low carbon, recycled, organic and green products. Which includes eco laundry balls, eco kettles, solar chargers, standby savers, recycling bins etc. There is free postage on all orders over £75.

  

• Big Green Smile® By Sophie Johnson, Marketing

  Sell an extensive range of green, ethical, recycled and eco-friendly gifts and gadgets that will help you to help our environment. They have lots of ways to save water & energy and reduce your carbon footprint. The company also work closely with suppliers to ensure that their products are the most environmentally friendly of their type on the market.

  

• Green People® By Sophie Johnson, Marketing

  Green People offers handmade health and beauty products that are 100% natural and certified organic. Leaders in organic skin care, the Green People mission is to promote an organic lifestyle and provide high quality, truly organic, natural hair and skin care, deodorants, toothpaste, sun lotions, health care and home care formulations.

  

• Seasalt® By Sophie Johnson, Marketing

  Bright, fashionable, and fun Organic cotton clothing for women and men. The first fashion brand in the UK to have cotton clothing certified to Soil Association standards. Seasalt are an accredited Ethical company. Free delivery on orders over £60.

  

• Ethical Superstore® By Sophie Johnson, Marketing

  Offers fair trade and green products from the world's leading ethical brands, including Cafedirect, Traidcraft, People Tree, Green & Blacks, Divine, Ecover, Freeplay, EcoZone, Solio and many more. The full range includes gadgets, gifts, cosmetics, foods, beverages, CDs, books, DVDs plus handmade lifestyle and fashion products.

  

• This section contains: Green Utilities

• Green Mobile By Scott Lescak, Environmental Project Manager

  Set up in July 06 in co-operation with Friends of the Earth and The Woodland Trust, Green Mobile Ltd state that they are the only genuine 'green' telephone company in the UK.

  

  They offer some of the best rates in the market and are one of the only companies that offer 'green' services cheaper than mainstream suppliers, offering great mobile packages for residential and business users.

  You can also swap your BT business and residential line rental and calls over to them, and there's no contract and your number and BT services won't change when you join.

  The Green Aspect

  Green Mobile last year won a Green Business Award from the Wandsworth local Guardian for their ethos and green services—and since Green Mobile set up they have planted 3000 trees in British forests. They are active in encouraging environmental best practice in a number of ways:

  Their mission is to tackle the impact that mobiles have on the environment by asking customers to keep their handsets for 1 year longer rather than upgrade.

  Offering customers that need to upgrade their old mobile the choice of buying a refurbished handset.

  Buying landline minutes from the UK's greenest landline network—who use modern "soft-switches" which use much less power than older exchange networks.

  Planting 3 trees for each new mobile contract and 2 trees for each new landline that swaps over, plus they also donate 6% of customers' ongoing bills to their choice of charity partners: Woodland Trust, Friends of the Earth and the EIA.

  Customers can opt for paperless billing and recycled paper is used for all correspondence and promotional materials.

  Green Mobile has recently issued a Tree Challenge to businesses who have a CSR or environmental commitment: “We'll beat your current telecoms bills by 10% or plant 10 trees”. To take this challenge simply go to www.greenmobile.co.uk or call 08452 333 333.

  Information

  Green Mobile
  Unit 2
  Sundial Court
  Tolworth
  Surrey, KT5 9RN
  Telephone: 08452 333 333
  Bookmark: www.greenmobile.co.uk

• co2balance By Scott Lescak, Environmental Project Manager

  co2balance provides simple, practical and cost-effective ways for individuals and businesses to reduce their 'carbon footprint', and then balance their unavoidable greenhouse gas emissions through investment in energy efficiency, renewable energy and afforestation projects.

  

  co2balance helps businesses to understand better their climate and environmental impacts and work with a range of private and public sector organisation, including Toshiba, Staples, the World Rally Championship, Mitsubishi and the BBC.

  Carbon Offset Projects

  Carbon offsetting works by investing funds to absorb or prevent the emission of a tonnage of CO2 equivalent to the client's unavoidable carbon emissions.

  co2balance run a wide range of projects in Africa based around energy efficiency and renewable energy schemes. All of which have an additional social and financial benefits to the local communities. They also run forestry projects, planting trees on their own land in the UK and France.

  co2balance own and manage their offsetting projects. This means that they only sell carbon credits generated from their own schemes. This control over projects guarantees delivery to their clients and an ethical and transparent model of carbon  funding.

  Buying landline minutes from the UK's greenest landline network—who use modern "soft-switches" which use much less power than older exchange networks.

  Planting 3 trees for each new mobile contract and 2 trees for each new landline that swaps over, plus they also donate 6% of customers' ongoing bills to their choice of charity partners: Woodland Trust, Friends of the Earth and the EIA.

  Visit their website to learn how to offset your carbon emissions www.co2balance.com

  Information

  co2balance
  1 Discovery House
  Cook Way
  Bindon Road
  Taunton, TA2 6BJ
  Telephone: 0845 094 2620
  Fax: 01823 336776
  Email: enquiries@co2balance.com
  Web: www.co2balance.com

  Offices also in Warrington, London, Italy and Kenya.

• Solar Technology International By Scott Lescak, Environmental Project Manager

  Solar Technology design and produce a range of solar products that allow you to use the sun for free energy. Their solar panels let you capture the sun's energy and convert it to electrical current and power a range of appliances, using the latest in cutting edge technology to harness solar power.

  

  Their solar panels use Crystalline silicon technology which is more efficient than amorphous or thin film solutions, particularly in lower light conditions found in the UK.

  Solar Technology are specialists in Solar PV products including the Freeloader portable solar charger, Solar Mate lighting range and their Solar PV range of panels. They also specialise in one off solar projects.

  Just think of the many ways you could use the electricity generated by solar power! You can bring power to a shed, workshop or summerhouse for lighting, tools or an alarm system …power to electric gates and fences – without running cables across your garden or through your home …you could ventilate your greenhouse with an extractor fan …you can tricklecharge your car, motor home or boat battery to extend its life - all with free energy.

  To check out the Solar Technology range of innovative solar gadgets simply visit their website www.solartechnology.co.uk

  Information

  Solar Technology International
  Unit 4
  Station Drive
  Bredon
  Nr Tewkesbury, Glos
  GL20 7HH
  Telephone: +44 (0)1684 774000
  Fax: +44 (0)1684 773974
  Email: sales@solartechnology.co.uk
  Web: www.solartechnology.co.uk

  Offices also in Warrington, London, Italy and Kenya.