It's going to take just about every single one of us to cool the planet and we're going to get a whole lot more done if we work together to come up with the most eco savvy solutions. Cooperation, shared know-how and a whole lot of teamwork. And that's the idea behind Team Green Britain day this 10th of July. Whether you're an eco warrior or an eco newby you can do your bit to help fight climate change; this really is a case of every little bit matters.
At the present there are five teams on the site (but more are expected to be created). You can join:

• Team Energy to follow tips on cutting energy usage (and bills) in your home. Tips include getting together with friends to share the telly, insulating and boiling the kettle one cup at a time.

• Team Swap to, you guessed it, swap your old stuff for new. Tips include choose quality over quantity and keeping jewellery for special occasions as producing it is quite energy intensive.

• Team Big Lunch to bring communities together to share food, tales and good times. Tips include growing your own food or buying locally to reduce your food miles and slowing down to enjoy it.

• Team A to B to make journeys as green as possible. Tips include ride sharing, sharing shopping trips and holidaying closer to home.

• EcoTeam to help you set green goals and support each other to achieve them. A trained team leader shows you how to measure how your actions to see how they have benefited the environment and your money purse.

For those that are only half sold on the concept this might be the clincher on getting you involved. If you join Team Britain you will have exclusive access to London 2012 tickets and special Olympic events.

The site also has a green reads section where you'll find 60 second guides including greening the school run, counting your food miles, farmers markets, transport emissions and giving your bathroom an eco make over (our tip on this one: natural candles instead of parrafin and chemical based candles are a simple and instant way to change the feel of your bathroom at night).

To join visit Team Green Britain.

When we say local, we don't mean dining at the local Thai restaurant. We're talking local farmers markets, using local fruit and veg box schemes, shopping at coops, swapping veggie garden produce with the neighbour - that kind of thing.

In doing so - that's eating locally grown food - we encourage the maintenance of wildlife friendly hedgerows, pastures and gardens, says The Wildlife Trusts magazine Natural World. It's all about the old supply and demand way of things. Economics tells us that the more we buy (or try) shows suppliers we want to buy more. So they go out and find/grow/make us more. If we continue to show local growers that we want local they will find a way to do that. A desolate concrete courtyard could be turned into a flourishing pumpkin patch or strawberry field with a little help from a local allotment gardener.

Well that sounds nice and dandy but renovations of any sort take money to bring them to life. The Wildlife Trusts have been given £50 million of Lottery money to support projects which make local food more accessible. The Trusts aim is to award 1,000 projects grants from anywhere between £5 and £500,000 by 2014. Now that's something of a motivator isn't it?

Other than encouraging wildlife, eating local also reduces your food miles and therefore your carbon footprint. Also by supporting local farmers and allotment owners you help to keep local green space from going undeveloped.

So it really is worth getting your natters on some home-grown veggies!

For more information the grants visit localfoodgrants.org.

The first thing you notice about this product is its colour - it's just about as bright orange as you can get. My reaction to the solar bright colour wasn't great - so used to applying white or clear creams to my skin, the intense colour of this face oil felt unusual at first. But try not to be put off by the orange or you will miss out on a superb skin boost.

Superfruit Concentrate by Essential Care is a rich vegan face oil made with a blend of organic supernutrients. It has the anti-oxidant, super nourishing fruit oils of the pomegranate, rosehip, sea buckthorn and avocado. These help to protect the face from UV and free-radical damage as well as promote skin elasticity and collagen synthesis.

Other things you should know about this super little number. It comes in a neat 30ml pump tube. It is certified 100% organic by the Soil Association. You can apply it just about any which way you like - over a daily moisturiser, as a night time treatment or a weekly skin boost - but the one thing you must take care with is to only apply a small amount. That's 1 to 2 drops only. If you apply to much, be warned now, you run the risk of turning into a carrot. Well, not exactly, but the vibrant vitamins and nutrients in this product can alter skin tone if you use excessively.

I applied 2 and half drops (just to push the barrier a little) to my face after I'd cleansed in the evening and didn't apply a moisturiser before or after. You'd be happy to know I didn't turn bright orange. After a grey week of sniffles and energy zapping computer time my skin came back to life and actually had some colour in it - not the fake tan kind, instead the healthy glow kind. It absorbed really well and although an oil, it didn't make my face feel oily, but rather soft - perhaps because so little was applied.

If you've tried the Essential Care's Superfruit Concentrate let us know what you think and we will share them with our other organic-ite readers.

Scientists say that if we continue to catch blue fin tuna at the unsustainable rate that we currently are the fish will become extinct, as will all wild fish within 40 years if we continue to over-fish stocks.

A new documentary film, The End of the Line, looks at the huge dangers our global fishing industry faces. As we continue to strive ahead with new advances in technology we are continuously over fishing. WWF, the wildlife charity predicted that the fish could disappear from the Mediterranean within the next three years. The End of the Line highlights that marine scientists recommend a legal catch of 22,000 tonnes but that conservationists believe in reality 60,000 tonnes are being caught. Astonishing considering the fish is endangered - as in rhino and blue whale endangered.

Japanese company Mitsubishi (who have a 40% share of the world market in bluefin tuna) is already freezing huge quantities of the fish that can be sold in years to come.

Sustainably fished product is the only way to go and most fishmongers should be able to tell you where exactly their fish were sourced from you just need to ask.