New Old Jewelry

How about this gorgeous cuff I just treated myself to from Verde Rocks available at Planet Threads.

I love it!!

The "Olympia Cuff" I'm wearing is from... "New "old stock" is the term used for vintage components that were made for the jewelry industry years ago and were not used. These were stored away for decades and never circulated for manufacturing! Such a great idea to use what has already been manufactured -- VerdeRocks rocks the light footprint."





Planet Threads doesn't just do jewelry they have lots of eco designers of women's and men's fashions and accessories, handbags, interiors and kids stuff.




Finally designers are coming up with fashion that is fashionable!! I mean I love retro as much as the next person, but too much of the hippy thing can make the flowers in my hair wilt!!

CHRISTMAS WILL BE GREEN THIS YEAR? YOU DECIDE...

Here's the latest installment of the eco house in Notting Hill. It's all coming along...

In the next post, I'll be reporting on some gorgeous green Christmas gift ideas

But in the meantime check out the GOOD GIFTS website.
Last year I decided to bypass all the gorgeously expensively twinkly packaged things in the shops that are SO only there to entice us into buying STUFF for our friends and family - this bypassing being very hard for a stylish Designer Girl who loves her gorgeous things...because you know as well as I that these things are so rarely anything we have a real need for...right?

Eco Warrioress gave instead gifts of a more ethical, green and less consumery nature.
My mum loves her garden, so I bought her a meadow of flowers; my environmentalist friend got an acre of rainforest and a few matcho blokes got a ten quid shot of bull semen for a cow in Africa -

You get the picture!

This year Good Gifts have a list of stocking fillas so that for a small 'stocking filler' price you can put in a little card in that says you have bought a homeless person some socks or given to a medical fund for street children. No expensive wrapping paper that gets thrown away, just a card on recycled paper that describes the gift. LOVE that!!

I found that the words inside the card always brought a smile to the recipient's face and evoked a conversation about the real meaning of Christmas and what giving to those who are truly in need really means to us all. Ahhhh....

ALRIGHT! That's enough of that.... I'm off to look at more Christmassy ideas...
and here's a few gorgeous green things for you to consider too....

GORGEOUS GREEN CHRISTMAS THINGS

See, I'm still not so much into the 'hempy' 'granola' look of eco so will always bring you the sexy and the stylish if I can....Last week I met the young and gorgeous Joshua who owns KANZI HOME. (KANZI means 'treasure' in Swahili ) and his website is FABulous. He is based in Newcastle and is not yet in a lot of stores but I'm so happy to have found this fabulous interiors, accessories and gifts website! Gorgeous!

As well as carrying cushions and cubes made from recycled car seat belts, gorgeous lampshades made from recycled paper and many ethical/fairtrade items, also has some lovely festive bits for your table top and tree.


Kanzi Home also carries SA8000 certified products. This is a rigorously audited human rights and social welfare programme (similar to Fairtrade) that give jobs to communities in need. Most of Kanzi's products are made in Thailand.

There is 10% off any online orders made before Christmas.

FINALLY,

FOR MY LOS ANGELES GREEN GIRLIES...

I will be visiting my friend Sam Robinson over Christmas to learn more about her eco fashion company, but in the meantime she is having a SALE.

DESIGNER SALE

Organic Clothing - wholesale & 50% off retail

earth & sky

Read all about her amazing fashion philosophies in this article in APPAREL NEWS...oh and Cate Blanchett, Kate Winslet, Angelina Jolie & Cameron Diaz love her stuff too!

Heather, Jenni, Rochelle, Emma, Alison, Andrea, April, Bootsey, Carolyn, Casey, Celeste, Celia, Claire, Collette, Eleanor, Hilary, Julien, Linda, Miriam, LInnea and Sarah; if you go, do please comment on the blog and tell us all about it!

NEWSFLASH! Eco Warrioress will be speaking at The Sustainability Show

Here's a couple of GREEN events on London this week..

This weekend ( 26th, 27th, 28th of October)
is THE SUSTAINABILITY SHOW at the O2 in London.

I will be speaking about sustainable design and lifestyle on Sunday at 12.30pm.

I'm also looking forward to finding more green products and eco answers to your sustainable life.

I spoke to the events director, David Miall, and he stressed that the show will have exhibits from every spectrum of the sustainable world. There will be ethical fashion, cosmetics, holidays and investments, cars, travel and much more. Companies as diverse as BMW and Bubble House Worm Farms will be exhibiting side by side and David Bellamy is coming on Saturday to talk about trees and sustainability,

I'm looking forward to it. It will be a lively event. Entry to the show is absolutely free so come on over to Greenwich and see us. What a great way to recycle the 'Millienium Dome'! and you can be sure I will be blogging about all the cool new green things I find in the coming weeks.

I LOOK FORWARD TO SEEING YOU THERE!

ANOTHER GREEN EVENT THIS THURSDAY

Friary Environmental Network (FEN)
presents

A talk by
DONNACHADH McCARTHY

HOW TO GREEN OUR HOMES AND FLATS FROM THE AMAZON & TV TO THE FRIARY ESTATE Admission: Free

**
Environmental author Donnachadh McCarthy will talk about his lifestyle,
writing, and how to reduce your carbon footprint. He’s an enjoyable
speaker, and somebody who practices what he preaches.

*Thursday 25th October 6.30-8.00 pm in Friary Tenants and Residents
Hall, Frensham St, SE15 6TH. Free Refreshments.*

THE SUSTAINABILITY SHOW AT THE O2

Coming up on the 26th, 27th, 28th of October
is THE SUSTAINABILITY SHOW at the O2 in London.
I will be there of course, checking out all the new sustainable products and reporting about them right here in my blog.

Here's the deets:
Entry to the show is absolutely free.
Follow the carbon foot prints from the main entrance of the O2 and find out how to reduce yours. Have lots of fun discovering ethical fashion, cosmetics, holidays and investments. Cars, travel and much more. At The Sustainability Show you will find a variety of new products and ideas developed specifically with the sustainability of our environment and life style in mind.
Many of these products and ideas have the added benefit of reducing your outgoings such as expensive fuel and utility bills, saving you money to spend on the more important things in life.

The first ever The Sustainability Show could not be held at a more ideal venue. The O2 a perfect demonstration of recycling on a grand scale!

SEE YOU THERE!