Links
Please click on the category name below to see links to other web sites from that category.
Baby & Child
babyhedgehog.co.uk
A baby resource website that allows you to shop for all sorts of baby accessories and create your own baby photo album.
BabyGROE parenting charity
BabyGROE [Green, Recycled, Organic, Ethical] is a natural parenting charity that promotes information to new mums through a free annual magazine and website of the same name.
Mum's Online - Where Parents Talk
Chat, advice, support, product reviews and debate. A site for every aspect of parenting.
Treating Autism
Information and news on Autism
Natural Mother
A specialist home visiting service designed exclusively to meet the needs of pregnant women.
The Good Birth Company
The Good Birth Company helps you organise and experience the benefits of using water for relaxation, labour and birth. Information and products available for a safe water birth experience.
Bump2Bubba
Professional antenatal classes in London and the South East where women and their birth partners can come away feeling excited, not daunted by the expectation of becoming a parent.
Baby Care Help
From baby care to clothes, form baby furniture to your baby's diet, this is your one stop soloution to find information that you can use. It holds in-depth details on how to handle your baby, feeding, clothing, bath time , illnesses and remedies.
Baby Planners
An all-encompassing service for mums-to-be, from choosing the right pushchair through to finding the best birth prep classes.
The Green Parent
Positive Parenting Advice and Information from The Green Parent.
The Baby Website
A Physical therapist and yoga teacher since 1970's, Peter has specialised for the past 30 years working with mothers and babies. He has developed unique techniques and pioneered the practice of Baby Massage and Soft Gymnastics for babies and toddlers. He has over 6,000 teachers in some 22 different countries, some of which are listed under qualified teachers.
Parenting With Out Tears
The site for families of all shapes and sizes where you'll find easily accessible advice and information on what concerns parents today.
Ethical Party Bags
A party bag company which only sells Fairly Traded bags and gifts, many of which are also recycled or organic.
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Books
What Really Works - Susan Clark
'The insiders guide to natural health'. An independent complementary health site dedicated to helping you make fully informed health & lifestyle choices. Written by Susan Clark, award-winning UK health journalist, author & broadcaster, you'll get the truth about natural remedies & practitioners.
Ethical Company Organisation
The Ethical Company Organisation provides clean, clear and comparative ethical shopping information to ethical shoppers, NGOs, ethical companies and government.
Green Books
An independent UK publishing company which produces books on a wide range of environmental issues, including green lifestyle, ecological building and organic gardening.
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Exhibitions
Organic Food Fairs
Guide to Organic Events.
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Farm Shops
English Organic Wine - Sedlescombe Vineyard
England's premier organic vineyard producing a range of English wines, fruit juices and ciders. Open to visitors daily.
Helen Brown Organics
Fantastic tasting organic meat from livestock with a real life on the wildside; you can buy from Sainsbury's, Tesco or Eastbrook's home delivery service.
Swaddles Green Farm
A complete range of organic shopping - organic meat & poultry, organic sausages & burgers, organic kids stuff, organic ready meals, organic dairy produce, organic groceries, organic wine & beers... all delivered direct to your door.
Cambrian Organics
A co-operative of Welsh organic farmers selling tasty organic lamb, organic beef and organic pork direct from the Welsh hills to your door. Full traceability of all meat to the farm of origin. Visit the farms on the website! You can buy through the internet, via phone or mailorder.
Langley Chase Organic Farm
This small Wiltshire farm won second place in the lamb category of the 2001 Organic Food Awards for its exquisitely tasty rare breed Manx Loghtan lamb. The website details all aspects of farm and flock management with the lambs reared naturally outside on organic pasture and hay - maturing by mid autumn. Full order details are provided with deliveries direct to the door.
Cook's Delight
A 100% Certified Organic shop based in Berkhampsted, with a box scheme which covers Hertfordshire, Bedfordshire and Buckinghamshire. It supports true ethical and organic trading, with an emphasis on sourcing its products from small farms and workers' cooperatives.
Graig Farm Organics
With a solid 19-year history, Graig Farm is one of the pioneers in organic meat, fish and other organic foods in the UK.
Vinceremos
A long-established organic wine specialist with one of the largest ranges in the UK, from everyday wines to wines and champagnes for special celebrations.
Vintage Roots
The UK's leading independent merchant of organic and biodynamic wines, beers, spirits, ciders, champagnes, juices and liqueurs.
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Financial
Nature Save
An ethical insurance intermediary which offers household and commercial policies.
Barchester Green
The UK's oldest ethical IFA, which has been advising people on ethical and social responsible investment since 1985.
Food
Macrobiotic Association of Great Britain
The MBA is a non profit organisation run by volunteers which liaises with Macrobiotic organisations around the world. The Association is actively involved in the organisation of events including camps, workshops, classes and visits by leading teachers.
Art of Longevity -The Macrobiotic Guide
Macrobiotic Guide for the UK and Europe providing information, recipes, services, and other items of interest and is a non-profit site.
Green Cuisine
Organic food and cookery courses run from an old manor farm on the Welsh borders.
Biodelice
A website which informs consumers about eating organic food and adopting the organic lifestyle for their own benefit and conserving the environment too.
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Holidays/Places to Stay
Organic Places to Stay
There's a wide selection of places to choose from in the website directory 'Organic Places to Stay'. Local specialities, slow food, home baking, homemade products such as jam, juice, ice cream, yogurt, cheese, pasta, pasta sauce, olive oil, wine - you'll find all these and more.
Penrhos Court Hotel, Restaurant & Conference Centre
The first organic restaurant in the universe, Penrhos is a 700-year-old farmstead on the border of Herefordshire & Wales. It is dedicated to food & health with residential courses run by chef/nutritionist Daphne Lambert, as well as organic seminars & meetings. Conference centre details: www.penrhos.co.uk/conference
Self-Catering Cottage - Devon
Self catering cottages in Devon - run in the most environmentally friendly way possible - all cleaning products and laundry are Ecover, recycling facilities, longlife light bulbs, organic and local produce offered to guests.
Calico Sunset
Beautiful bed & breakfast accomodation in Nova Scotia. Fully vegan cuisine, eco-friendly, prefume free environment.
Trigonos
An inspiring conference and education venue in the Snowdonia National Park with magnificent views of Snowdon, the surrounding mountains and Nantlle Lake.
Organic Holidays
Promotes the use of organic food in a variety of holiday accommodation at home and abroad.
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Magazines
Ethical Consumer - Ethiscore
Ethical Consumer is an independent lifestyle magazine, with a readership of 20,000, that informs consumers about everything from the social and environmental impacts of a product to the ethical records of the companies that make it. Complex issues are simplified with easy-to-use tables that show important facts at-a-glance. Ethical Consumer reports also appear the new Ethiscore website.
What Doctors Don't Tell You
Health Newsletter which lifts the lid on modern medicine.
In Balance Magazine
The magazine that really cares about your health and lifestyle.
Foods Matter
An invaluable monthly support magazine for anyone suffering from a food allergy/intolerance or living on a restricted diet, whatever the cause.
Eczema Voice
A dedicated discussion board for people with eczema and their carers. Covers a wide range of eczema related topics.
pages4women.com
Women's Online Magazine providing regular articles on a wide range of subjects including women's health information, fitness tips and advice. Plus Home Business ideas, parenting issues, Organic Lifestyle, general lifestyle topics and lots more! Great value e-books for women and membership is FREE!
Natural Health
The unique guide to complementary therapies for your mind, body and soul, with our panel of experts on-hand to answer your questions on holistic medicine and healthy living.
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On Line Stores
echarger
On the train heading to work, an interview, on a trip, stranded in the desert, in an emergency you run out of juice on your mobile. At E-Charger we have the solution, a unique fashionable energy saving product to compliment your needs.
Friendly Greetings
A small company specialising in environmentally friendly greetings cards. All our cards are designed with the good of the environment at heart; using bleach-free recycled boards, vegetable oil based inks, recycled envelopes and biodegradable cellobags; and all our cards are 100% recyclable.
Ecocentric
EcoCentric is an online eco design store selling beautifully designed sustainable products for you and your home.
Greener Living
From energy saving appliances to recycled stationery, Greener Living have 100s of carefully selected product range to enable you to live a more eco-friendly lifestyle.
Gooshing
GOOSHING enables both ethical and price comparisons on over 250,000 mainstream products.
The Green Building Store
Products which promote energy-efficient, sustainable and healthy buildings.
Energy and Environment
Quality eco-friendly and energy-saving products.
Cartridges for Charity
Send your empty printer cartridges and old mobile phones to Cartridges for Charity and they can help to raise funds for charities by selling them on to manufacturers to be recycled and resold.
Ethical Vitamins
Mail order of Viridian vitamins which were named as Best Buy in the Ethical Consumer magazine review of vitamins.
Green Shoes
Designers and makers of quality handmade customised footwear, in leather and vegan limited edition. All shoes are handmade, in small quantities, so each pair is essentially a limited edition.
Hug
Stylish organic tops for men, women and children.
The Green Stationery Company
The complete green office supplies company, offering a national mail order service. We supply everything for the office in an environmentally beneficial format, from recycled papers to computer consumables.
WonderWorld
Fair Trade crafts from Asia. Wonderworld is a small English company engaged in creative, human scale trading for handicrafts in India, Nepal and Thailand.
One World Is Enough
Clothes, Handmade Paper, Soft Furnishings, Handmade Crafts, Works of Art - all Fair Traded from around the World.
Little Red Hen Nurseries
Hardy shrubs, perennials and herbs, grown in peat-free compost. No pesticides, fungicides or herbicides used on the nursery.
Eco Build
Supplies building products which promote energy-efficient, sustainable and healthy homes. Safe and sustainable products available to help you redecorate, refurbish, or even build a new home.
The Green Apple
Ethical and eco-friendly shopping...with a bit of style!
TreeTwist
Buy a TreeTwist and plant a tree - TreeTwists are woollen scarves, bracelets and clips. They are different because each one comes with a tree, planted in the Caledonian Forest by Trees for Life. Every TreeTwist therefore represents a tree.
More Than Gifts
Specialising in fair trade and handcrafted gifts including jewellery, bags, wooden toys, Russian dolls, mobiles and many more gift ideas. Free UK Delivery.
Eco Merchant
The UK's leading environmental builders' merchant. It prides itself in the range of environmentally-friendly products available from its Kent shop.
The Green Shop
Founded in 1997, The Green Shop sells eco-friendly, fair-traded goods both from its base in Bisley, Gloucestershire, and online.
Ecostaurus
Ecostaurus is the online organic and eco website. It has a fabulous range of locally-sourced organic products for all the family, together with great recycled, energy efficient eco home and office products, all of which help towards a sustainable lifestyle.
Lovecow
Lovecow: A range of organic and ethically-sourced clothing for the whole family.
The Bamboo Wardrobe
Ethical quality clothing made from environmentally kind and sustainable Bamboo Fabric.
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Organic Directories
Ethical Junction
Ethical Junction is a one-stop shop for ethical organisations and ethical trading. Has search engine and directory of hundreds of organisations representing a huge range of ethical businesses and interests.
All Organic Links
A comprehensive listing system for the organic industry. Search their database for specific items or browse the listings categories for information you may be interested in.
Nutri People
Locate a qualified nutritionist, dietitian or nutritional therapist in the UK with this easy to use search tool.
Environment Jobs
For jobs and volunteering in the environmental sector. "Want to save the planet? - make it your job".
Green Footsteps
A website devoted to articles, reviews and other resources for those wishing to lead more environmentally-sound lifestyles.
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Organisations
The Soil Association
Information about the Soil Association and it's campaigning work for organic food and farming and sustainable forestry.
The HDRA Research Association
The aim of HDRA's scientific research is to develop and improve the techniques used in organic agriculture and to advance the knowledge of organic production systems, focusing on commercial organic horticulture in temperate areas and on sustainable agriculture in developing countries.
Ecology Building Society
Ethical savings accounts and green mortgages for properties that benefit the environment
Consumers for Health Choice
Actively campaigning to put pressure on the Minister responsible to take decisive action to keep higher safe doses and existing safe nutrients. The Food Supplements Directive deals with the regulation of Vitamin & Mineral food supplements. It has already passed into law and comes into force across Europe on 1st August 2005. As it currently stands, the Directive will lead to the banning of many valuable, safe and popular nutrients and bio-available nutrient sources – and the imposition of unnecessary low dose levels.
The Cancer Prevention Society
The aims of the Society are to reduce the current epidemic levels of cancer by reducing human exposure to carcinogens, particularly those of man-made origin. Unlike other cancer charities, their primary purpose is to prevent people from getting cancer in the first place.
The Vegan Society (UK)
Promoting ways of living which avoid the use of animal products - for the benefit of people, animals and the environment.
Institute of Dermapaedics
Institute of Dermapaedics is campaigning to get manufacturers to stop using the dangerous chemicals still found in kid’s products. Many chemicals like SLS are strongly linked to eczema, dermatitis, asthma and even cancer, but are still found in over 90% of children’s shampoo. Mums, midwives, the Woman’s Institute, the World Wide Fund, FOE and many other pressure groups are extremely worried. Please complete the survey here which we hope will eventually persuade supermarkets, the NHS children’s wards and the government to ask manufacturers to re-look at formulations targeted at children.
The College of Naturopathic Medicine
The College of Naturopathic Medicine offers recognised diploma courses and qualifications in Naturopathy and Naturopathic Nutrition, with colleges located throughout the UK and Ireland.
Sustain Web
The alliance for better food and farming advocates food and agriculture policies and practices that enhance the health and welfare of people and animals, improve the working and living environment, promote equity and enrich society and culture. We represent around 100 national public interest organisations working at international, national, regional and local level.
Uncaged
Uncaged Campaigns: Against Vivisection. Campaigning on all fronts, from massive public education drives to intense political lobbying.
Sherwood Energy Village
Reclamation of former colliery land creating a sustainable, energy efficient enterprise of industry, housing and recreation utilising renewable energy sources.
Shared Interest
Shared Interest's mission is to finance fair trade by: Lending to and working with producer and buyer organisations who are committed to using fair trade principles, promoting a North-South partnership, Enabling investors in the UK to share risk and take positive action to direct funds to borrowers working in poorer parts of the world, listening to and promoting southern voices and views, strengthening the fair trade movement so that is continues to present a more just model of trade
UK Energy Saving - Resources Page
The UK Energy Saving website is designed to point you in the right direction for advice and tips on UK Energy Saving in your home and business. Reducing the amount of energy you use is the most effective way to save you money and also combat climate change.
House Of Strauss
A family based, non-profit alternative health and lifestyle resource.
The Environmental Illness Resource
Provides information, news and research updates, doctor authored articles, forums, and other resources for sufferers of environmental illnesses such as multiple chemical sensitivity (MCS), chronic fatigue syndrome (CFS). and fibromyalgia. Created by a long term survivor of CFS and MCS.
The Organic Milk Cooperative (OMSCo)
OMSCo is a cooperative of around 300 British farmers. It is the largest and longest established supplier of organic milk in the UK.
Life2TheMax
A revolutionary new course featuring health and lifestyle skills for children.
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Women's Interest
Leslie Kenton
Award winning writer, novelist, broadcaster, lecturer, social activist and shamanic practitioner, Leslie is well known for her work in journalism and television world-wide.
Menses
Safe, natural and planet friendly alternatives to the corporate menstrual experience.
Other
Greener Option
Advising and selling the biodiesel machines for your home, small business and/or green filling station.
The Phone Co-op
The Phone Co-op provides business and residential telecommunications services. It is owned by its customers and run solely for their benefit.
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