Recycled Beer Bottle Glasses - Grolsch Goblet

I have not started Christmas shopping yet - but have been looking for great eco-friendly gifts to buy for people over the last few days.

I found these beer glass goblets, made from recycled beer bottles.

I am sure you could fashion one yourself if you hang around in a high street after most Friday nights in the UK.

Probably a bit too dangerous to do that, so these glasses make an unusual gift for the beer lover, as well as giving a good recycling message.

My personal favourite is the tumblers without the labels. Labels seem silly to keep, as they will not last long in a dishwasher.

Free Showersave with Savewatersavemoney

www.savewatersavemoney.co.uk are giving away free showersave attachments for your shower so you can start saving money by reducing your water usage.

Competition: Win a Wattson Energy Meter

Would you like to track how much energy you are using in your home? Well the Watson Eenrgy Meter can provide this service!

The Watson provides is a great gadget that gives a useful useful indication of your current energy consumption levels with different coloured lights. Blue indicates low energy use, whilst red indicates extreme power sapping appliances are in use!

Watson Energy Meter Competition
Win a Watson with Uswich Energy

Available to buy at the following gadget retailers:
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Sony Ericsson Elm has Green Credentials

Sony Ericsson have expanded it's GreenHeart portfolio with the Sony Erisscon Elm, which is due for relase shortly.

The Sony Ericsson Elm phone will benefit the environment and help reduce CO2 emissions through:
• Recycled plastics
• E-manual in phone
• Free from hazardous chemicals
• Low power consumption charger (EP300 GreenHeart™)
• Walk Mate eco application
• Green calculator
• Minimized packaging

The Elm will be shipped with a GreenHeart™ personal handsfree; the Stereo Portable Handsfree HPM-60J, which is a step towards reaching the 100 per cent GreenHeart™ accessories goal of Sony Ericsson.

"The Sony Ericsson Elm and the Sony Ericsson Hazel phones offer consumers a green choice without compromising on features or fun. These mobile phones also give consumers a better voice quality experience, with Noise Shield, Clear Voice and Intelligent Volume Adaptation. Both phones offer an easy-to-use social networking experience featuring the Widget Manager application, which allows users access to their social networking page via the stand-by screen and quickly switch between different social networks." said Fortuné Alexander, Global Marketing Director at Sony Ericsson.

Sony Ericsson announced its ambition to making all of its accessories 100 per cent GreenHeart™ compliant by 2011.

“Building on the established heritage of our parent companies we have worked continuously to maintain our leadership position by committing to reduce our own CO2 emissions by 20 per cent and product life cycle CO2 emissions by 15 per cent by 2015.” said Mats Pellbäck Scharp, Environmental Director at Sony Ericsson.

“The Sony Ericsson Elm phone, Sony Ericsson Hazel phone and the VH700 are a testament of our continued commitment to the environment and are part of the ongoing roll-out of our GreenHeart™ strategy announced in June 2009.” continues Mats Pellbäck Scharp.

Steve Alder, General Manager Group and UK Devices for O2, said: “Offering Sony Ericsson GreenHeart™ phones to our customers has been a part of our strategy to integrate sustainability across all our products and services thereby helping our customers reduce their environmental footprint. As an industry it is essential we embrace innovation in this area and incorporating greener credentials across our product portfolio is certainly a focus for us moving forwards.”

UPDATE: View Sony Ericsson Elm Greenheart now on Vodafone!

Good to see some movement on this, hopefully other manufacturers will follow. Remember to recycle your old mobile phones!

John Lewis Supports Eco Home Exhibition

John Lewis are supporting the Eco Home Exhibition at the Geffrye Museum, over the next few weeks.

"The mantra ‘Reduce, Reuse, Recycle’
is prompting us to rethink our habits and behaviour. This exhibition will offer visitors food for
thought on what they can do to make small but important eco changes in their homes."

The Exhibition runs until Sunday 7 February 2010 in East London.

John Lewis now stock a great range of energy efficent appliances and recycling bins for the home.