Nature’s Path produce a range of organic breakfast cereals in Canada. They claim to have always been concerned about their use of packaging. To that extent, they offer bulk packs of most of their cereal products and always use recycled cardboard to package them. One of their latest sustainability initiative includes resizing their cereal boxes which reduces the packaging by 10%. Find out about their other sustainability initiatives here.

Reducing our package size by 10% lessens our yearly impact upon the earth by saving over 700,000 gallons of water, 500,000 KWh of energy, and 75 tons of paperboard

In the spirit of reducing energy consumption and saving water this simple yet brilliant idea goes a long way to achieve these goals. I wonder how much energy, water and paper could be saved if mainstream breakfast cereal manufacturers reduced the empty space inside their boxes?

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Tags: ecostreet, recycling, water+saving, water+conservation, energy+saving

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Organic and fairtrade clothing retailer, People Tree, have a concession in Topshop, Oxford Street in London until mid-June 2006. They’ve reworked some of the People Tree archive for their exclusive Topshop collection, and you can also buy their current catalogue fashions in the store. If you’d like to visit People Tree in Topshop, look for them in the lower basement near the vintage shoe department.

And while stocks last, People Tree are giving away a silk scarf with every order over £70 from their online shop. They stock women’s, men’s and children’s organic clothing, and some lovely bedding and stationery too.

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Tags: ecostreet, shopping, eco-friendly, organic, organic+clothing, babies, children, eco-friendly+house, fairtrade, ethical+fashion

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Seven Baka pygmies, who form the musical group Baka Gbine (pronounced “bee-nay”), have arrived in the UK to bring awareness to the plight of their rainforest in Cameroon. They will be giving live performances of their album Gati Bongo, recorded under a giant tree on a mobile solar-powered studio and due to be released today.

While there is some doubt whether Baka Gbine are doing this tour to save their forest or if they are simply earning some outside money to bring back to their families and the village of Banana (see this piece in The Guardian for the full story), the fact that they are here in the UK will certainly be raising awareness of the Cameroonian rainforest.

Find out the dates of their performances, being held during April and May all over the country from their website. Or sample the sounds of the rainforest by listening to Baka Gbine’s latest album Rhythm Tree online. And listen-out for them on BBC Radio 3, they are in session with Andy Kershaw on Saturday evening.

Via: The Guardian

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Tags: ecostreet, world+music, conservation, rainforest

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