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Get Ethical with Colin Firth this Christmas Want to know what Colin Firth is getting for Christmas this year? The British actor's new eco shop in Chiswick ECO AGE is offering a 'his & hers' Christmas gift bag service with BAGS OF CHANGE, the only bag which is also an ethical shopping loyalty scheme: www.bagsofchange.co.uk Christmas orders can be customised by filling one of the stylish Bags of Change bags with a selection of gifts from Eco Age. Prices start at 21 for the organic hemp-cotton bag and 40 for the wild rubber - bag plus gift contents. 'His' sample bag is shown, with a Bags of Change wild rubber bag. This Christmas Bags of Change is also collaborating with a number of UK designers-makers and small green companies who have joined together to open a pop-up shop in Notting Hill with a superb selection of Fairtrade, ethical, organic, and eco -friendly products. OUR ECO SHOP brings together the cream of British eco-chic designers under one roof, and anyo...

Britons still consume 3bn litres of bottled water a year, and there lies the ecological rub, which starts with packaging, of 13bn plastic bottles sold in the UK last year, just 3bn were recycled. Article published in The Observer February 10th 2008

If the furore over plastic bags were to be believed the world can be saved from climate change by us all stopping using plastic bags. That's all we have to do, drive to the shops in our gas guzzlers and use a slightly thicker bag. Let's ignore the fact the overuse of plastic bags is a litter issue. Let's ignore the superflous packaging surrounding all the items in the bags and just focus on the bag. Let's get the government to stick a tax on said plackie bags and proclaim they have solved all our problems whilst using the extra cash to fund some Nuclear Power! At least it is easier for us to use a cloth bag for our shopping than to say, walk to the shops or actually do anything significant that might give us a shot of saving our sorry souls!