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Carnival of the Green #119

Thanks to The Expatriate's Kitchen for hosting last week and as ever thanks to Victoria E for hosting next week. To get the carnival lowdown check out: 'Carnival of the Green'. Before you read on can I just draw your attention to a fabulous initiative we have just blogged about (even though the award deadline has passed we think you will find it worth reading about): Re-Box

So, without further ado...welcome, to the Carnival of the Green, oh, and Happy St Patrick's Day:

Carnival of the Green #102

We have been very busy re-launching the Natural Collection website (including the UK's first ever  'Eco Gift' List' service) but are always happy to make time to participate in this wonderful green blog event.

We are of course delighted to host this 2nd Anniversary 'Carnival of the Green' and of course thanks to Money and Value for last weeks carnival and good luck to Playgreen for next weeks.

So, without further ado...

Carnival of the Green #96

This week's 'Carnival of the Green' is hosted by Karavans and our eyes feasted on a variety of interesting green posts. 'Mug of tea' time folks...sit back and enjoy!

Carnival of the Green #95

This week's 'Carnival of the Green' is hosted by Green Style and as usual there is a bevy of interesting articles from around the green blogosphere to check out.

Carnival of the Green #93 & #94

Double portion of the 'Carnival of the Green' this week as I was away in Wales on holiday last week. Last week's carnival was hosted by Organic Authority and this week's is hosted by Camphor's. Some truly fantastic stuff to check out. Well worth saving for a coffee break.

Carnival of the Green #92

Bank Holiday Monday here in the UK and this week's 'Carnival of the Green' is found at Greener Magazine. What caught my eye this time is the interesting suggestions of how to reuse old newspapers for gifts. Very inventive.

Carnival of the Green #91

This week the 'Carnival of the Green' is hosted by Green Options and I am astounded to learn  via EcoGeek about the potential for crowd farms i.e. harnessing the power of pedestrian steps. Imagine that?

Carnival of the Green #90

This week the 'Carnival of the Green' is hosted by Miss Malaprop and my eye is drawn to this fab list of 50 tips to green your office. Should you be looking to green your office of course then Natural Collection has a wide variety of useful office stationery to help smooth the path including:

• our fabulous stapleless stapler
• remarkable recycled pens
• remarkable recycled mouse mats
• amazing eco friendly markers
• remarkable recycled notepads
• 100% post-consumer waste recycled notepads
• reduce / reuse / recycled Goonj notebooks
• recycled Lever Arch files
• recycled sticky notes
• and good old recycled copier paper of course.

Carnival of the Green #89

This week the 'Carnival of the Green' is hosted by Organic Researcher. I long for the outdoors so this week I loved reading How to be a green camper.

Of course we have lots of great stuff to help you put some green into your camping like our:

• energy saving storm kettle
• weatherproof swedish firesteel
• filtered water bottles
• recycled plastic backpacks
  
• recycled picnic rug
• DEETfree natural insect repellant
• innovative salt and pepper shaker
• sun creams
• energy saving gadgets
• wind-up torches
• wind-up and solar multi-band radios
• solar battery chargers

Happy and ethical camping!

Carnival of the Green #88

This week the 'Carnival of the Green' is hosted by Nicomachus. My pick of the week is a question that I have often wondered about: why do businesses leave their lights on at night?. Any ideas?