Green Providers is a comprehensive guide to all things green, organic and fair trade. We are a not-for-profit guide - we don't sell anything ourselves and we have no shareholders. Our aim is simply to encourage and empower more people to buy from ethical and sustainable sources. All the companies listed in our guide have been screened so that you can be sure of their green credentials. Our guide is packed full of news, information and advice on a broad range of green and environmental issues.
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Greenpeace launches its new office in the Congo
"In the long term, economic sustainability depends on ecological sustainability." - America’s Living Oceans
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All the companies listed in the Green Providers guide adhere to fair trade principles, helping to alleviate global poverty, whilst treating and paying employees fairly. Our directory is a 'one-stop' shop for everything green!
"Let every individual and institution now think and act as a responsible trustee of Earth, seeking choices in ecology, economics and ethics that will provide a sustainable future, eliminate pollution, poverty and violence, awaken the wonder of life and foster peaceful progress in the human adventure." - John McConnell, founder of International Earth Day
Fair trade, ethical gifts Visit our gifts section to find unusual and different ideas not available in general shops! Remember, anything you buy will go towards helping fair trade workers and sustainable causes. Buy something different - make a difference.
Fair trade bag producers work with marginalised workers to help them overcome vulnerability and become economically self-sufficient. There are fair trade bags to cover every need - fashion bags, cotton bags, shopping bags, Jute bags and recycled bags.
The biggest cause of climate change is the carbon emissions from power stations run on fossil fuels. Switching to a renewable energy provider is quick, easy and won't cost you any more than you currently pay.
"Only when I saw the Earth from space, in all its ineffable beauty and fragility, did I realize that humankind's most urgent task is to cherish and preserve it for future generations." - Sigmund Jahn, German cosmonaut
Tropical rainforests took nearly 100 million years to evolve and are the most complex ecosystem on earth. More than half of the world's estimated 10 million species of plants, animals and insects live in the tropical rainforests and one-fifth of the world's fresh water is in the AmazonBasin.Rainforests have a central role to play in the slowing of climate change.
"There is a pleasure in the pathless woods, There is a rapture on the lonely shore, There is society, where none intrudes, By the deep sea, and music in its roar: I love not man the less, but Nature more." - George Gordon, Lord Byron from 'Childe Harold's Pilgrimage'
Organic health & beauty products do not contain harmful chemicals, additives, genetic modification or pesticides. In contrast, many conventional skincare products contain synthetic chemicals whose long-term effects are uncertain. All the companies listed in the Green Providers guide follow organic principles.
"The struggle to save the global environment is in one way much more difficult than the struggle to vanquish Hitler, for this time the war is with ourselves. We are the enemy, just as we have only ourselves as allies." - Al Gore
Organic clothing By buying organic cotton products that have been produced under fair trade principles we can improve the lives of many thousands of poorer workers, clean up the environment and reduce health impacts on consumers.
Fair trade furniture uses timber from well managed and sustainable forests - always look for the Forest Stewardship Council (FSC) certificate.
Greener living saves money. Living more sustainably doesn't just help the planet - it also helps your pocket. Turn off that light, switch off the standby on your television set, turn down the heating a few degrees and make sure your home is well insulated.
Easy ways to save paper. Thousands of trees and tonnes of paper are used to produce telephone directories. You can now opt out of receiving Yellow Pages by calling 0800 671 444. Also, you can opt out of receiving 'junk mail' by registering with the Mailing Preference Service.
Energy saving devices If everyone boiled only the water they needed when 'filling' the kettle, we could save enough electricity to run practically all the street lights in the UK!
"To waste, to destroy, our natural resources, to skin and exhaust the land instead of using it so as to increase its usefulness, will result in undermining in the days of our children the very prosperity which we ought by right to hand down to them." - Theodore Roosevelt
Eco friendly holidays One long haul return flight can produce more carbon emissions per passenger than the average motorist produces in a whole year! Its now much quicker and easier to reach your destination and you can do it carbon-neutral! See our holidays & green tips sections.
Organic children's clothing, toys and accessories The cotton used in organic babywear and children’s clothing is grown and processed without the use of harmful chemicals. Socially and environmentally responsible products- free from toxins and pesticides. See our baby & children section for all your needs.
“Humankind has not woven the web of life. We are but one thread within it. Whatever we do to the web, we do to ourselves. All things are bound together. All things connect.” - Chief Seattle, 1855
