Remarkable are the stationery company that make plastic cups into pencils. We think this is pretty amazing. After all, not every stationery company out there’s so clever to design bright, quality and eco-friendly products. The man behind the idea to recycle car tyres into note pads is Edward Douglas Millerin and began, as most good […]

What better time than January - month of the New Year Resolution - to start planning ways to green up your house. CarbonNeutral.com can help you out in this department - they say that everyone can reduce the carbon footprint of their home to zero. “Around 20 per cent through small, long-lasting changes inside the […]

If anyone saw Breakfast News on the BBC or read the front page of the Daily Mail website this morning you may have been as gobsmacked as us organic-ites at the the state of recycling in the UK. It has been revealed that a significant amount of the paper and card we have come to […]

In time for the post Christmas throw away period when old clothes and old technologies get replaced with the latest and greatest version, So Organic have joined up with Greener Solutions to provide a means to recycle old mobile phones.
Postage is free so there is no cost to anyone who wishes to recycle an old […]

Giving up smoking as a New Years resolution has a whole lot more weight to it in these developing eco conscious times. The process of using nicotine and other chemicals to make cigarettes uses a lot of energy and creates pollution by virtue of the distances travelled to get the ingredients together and deliver that […]

Stephen Fry’s got a knack for talking. He’s also got a wonderful knack for talking to all sorts of odd bods.
In his series Stephen Fry in America Mr Fry travels across the land of the stars and stripes in a black cab and along the way stops to talk to everyone from plastic faced Texan […]

Why make your own paper logs? More importantly, what are paper logs? That’s what I was thinking until a delightful So Organic customer told me all about her paper fire log creations.
When compressed into briquettes paper can burn for hours and can be just as good a wood logs. All you have to do is […]

Thinking of making 2009 the year you go green? Every step, no matter how small, in the right direction helps. But now is a good time to make the most of the higher focus and energy the New Year brings in creating change. It’s like there’s something extra in the air at the beginning of […]

The clear skies and strong sunshine of southern Spain have helped deliver the world’s largest solar tower plant. About 20 miles from Seville 1000 mirrors, each the size of a tennis court, have been connected to reflect sunlight and superheat water at a central tower.
Using Concentrated Solar Power (CSP) technology, this leading project for utilizing […]

The hearts in the So Organic office skipped a beat yesterday, but not in the joyful sense. The headline from the BBC story said it all ‘Amazon Deforestation Accelerate’.
Brazilian officials have said that the destruction of the Amazon rainforest has accelerated for the first time in four years. Evidence comes in the form of satellite […]