big green smile

If you want to embrace the green lifestyle, but don't know where to start, there's a great new website that's just what the eco-warriors ordered.

Big Green Smile believes that individuals can make a real difference and that small changes by one person can have a ripple-through effect on society at large. Log on to the site and you'll find an extensive range of green, ethical, recycled and eco-friendly gifts and gadgets that will help you to help the environment, with lots of ways to save water & energy and reduce your carbon footprint.

Big Green Smile works with its suppliers to make all the products on the site as environmentally friendly as they can be, and believes that changing people's behaviour is half the battle when we're all trying to reduce the pressures that modern society puts on the environment. The handy online shop includes a range of products and gift ideas to encourage people of all ages to give a little thought to what they are using!

The site also makes sure that it gives as much information on the products as possible so that anyone who wants to buy something has a real informed choice.

All products also meet one or more of these criteria:

• Products help aid water efficiency
• Products help aid energy efficiency
• Attempt to make people think twice and help change behaviour towards use of a resource
• Products are locally sourced wherever possible
• Wood products come from sustainable sources
• Recycled materials are used wherever possible

Of course - none of the products are air-freighted or tested on animals. Some of the cool brands availalle on the site are Burts Bees beauty and health goodies, Method cleaning products, recycled kitchen essentials like foil and fab recycled Grolsch bottle glasses! It's definitely worth a browse if you want to do your bit for the environment and buy fun, useful, and eco-friendly its and pieces. There's also a section with handy tips on what everyone can do to save the planet's precious resources.