A new eco range of water bottles are heading over and hitting the UK shores by the ship load!

Sigg bottles are eco friendly unlike plastic bottles and will last year after year and the new range includes new designs with some fantastic tag lines including “Green is the new black”, “Simply Eco Logical”, “Make Love Not Landfill” and “Rise above plastic”.

Water Bottles from Sigg are know for their superb quality and all are 100% leakproof. A hygienic inner coating prevents tainting of contents and ensures resistance to fruit acids, carbonated and isotonic drinks - basically it shouldn’t smell after you’ve had Vimto in it!

While the Sigg bottle may look much like any other, it in fact packs a lot of high-tech. Sigg bottles are extrusion pressed from a one piece aluminium blank, which results in uniform, seamless walls.

Do you know how many trees are cut down every day of the year? Neither do we, but over 1000 acres are deforested every day which the people at File Dropper, like many others, think is an obscene amount.

Most of the trees are destroyed and turned into paper that we use for less than a few hours before throwing away. FileDropper wants to help. FileDropper want to help people store and share their documents electronically. We don’t want you to waste paper printing, so are offering 250GB file hosting accounts for free.

You can use these accounts to upload as many documents as you like and share them with all of your friends. If 1 tree is saved from being cut down, they consider this promotion a success and we can’t argue.

The eBook Reader from Sony provides a new way to experience reading. It has an impressive 6-inch display using breakthrough technology that’s almost paper like, making it easy to read even in bright sunshine.

In addition, the screen allows for high contrast and high resolution, with a near 180° viewing angle. The text can also be changed between three different font sizes.

The Sony eBook Reader is a perfect travel companion, as it offers a unique, on-the-go reading experience with its compact and lightweight design. You can take this ebook reader with you almost anywhere and read whenever you want.

More compact than many paperbacks, it weighs just nine ounces and is only half an inch thin yet can hold up to 160 eBooks. You can easily hold it in one hand, and with its rechargeable battery you can turn up to 7,500 continuous pages on a single charge.

With a huge array of free ebooks

Turn your old mobile phones into cash and help reduce the landfill sites filling up with unwanted electrical goods.

Most people, when they take out a new mobile phone contract, receive an new mobile phone which means their old one is either binned or put in a drawer and forgot about until the next spring clean. Mobile Phone Xchange are one of the biggest recyclers of mobile phones with exclusive partnerships with some of the largest players in the mobile phone industry.

Its not only a great way to get help the environment, you do your bit for the environment by recycling your old phone and at the same time earn money. Statistics show that over 1 person per household has an old phone, which is just put in a drawer somewhere.

There are close to one million phones upgraded every month when new contracts are taken out.

Whether its quitting smoking, losing weight or joining a gym, every year people make new years resolutions that they fail to keep after a few weeks. This year do something different and involve all your family and friends.

Create an online pledge, get all your friends and family to commit to the same thing and see it through to the end.

Your pledge could be anything from switching lights off in your house to cut down wasted electricity, to growing your own summer vegetables.

Simply decide what you want to do, and create your online pledge. Once you have enough people signed up, agreeing to follow in your footsteps, do you carry your pledge through.

Written by Charlotte Vohtz, the founder of Green People, the booked “Naturally Gorgeous” has proved hugely propular with beauty tips for those interested in natural and orgranic living.

Packed with advice, tips, essential health and beauty secrets, this book tells you everything from how to care for your skin organically, soothing treatments for problem areas and protecting you skin and tanning the safe way.

Moving to an organic lifestyle can help people with skin allergies such as eczema and this book helps you avoid any unneccesary man-made chemicals and offers suggestions on how to cleanse your body of accumulated toxins.

Its a self help guide to an organic detox!

We’ve already suggested Growing Your Own Christmas Tree in an attempt to make Christmas a little more eco friendly but if you’re not green fingered, there is another alternative, rent one instead!

Now you can stop the needless annual harvest of Christmas trees that always end up burning on a fire, or being thrown into a local land fill. The fake ones, as we know, contain petroleum materials that are dangerous for the environment so why not rent one?

Chris Evans BBC Radio2 show, had Martin from Trees For Rent explaining the service they offered which is a unique idea. Trees For Rent will deliver, manage, maintain and pick up your Christmas tree and you can choose from a small 2ft tree to a 10ft tree. Whether its for your home or business, you simply order the size and type of tree, let them know when you want it delivered or if your local, you can even choose your own from their stock of over 500 pot grown trees.

Firstly, 00ff00 is the html code for the colour green and therefore signifies that Ooffoo is the place on the web where people can come together to help, advise or discuss anything and everything green!

Launched in November 2008 by Natural Collection, Ooffoo is an online eco community helping people beat the credit crunch by encouraging swapping and recycling as an alternative to spending money and buying new.

The Ooffoo site is even running a writing competition (ends Dec 31st 2008) to find the “Ooffoo Laureate of the Year” which carries a £500 prize!

Bringing together key trends including recycling, consumer knowledge and power, community & local, handmade and ‘make do and mend’, ooffoo is just what people need to weather the economic storm, reduce spending and reactivate communities.

Offoo is a great place to find and share eco friendly information, encouraging positive thinking whilst offering you the opportunity to meet likeminded people.

Much hype was made in 2007 following Sainsburys Bag For Life campaign, where it gave away 20,000 eco friendly shopping bags with the slogan “I’m not a plastic bag”, made by designer Anya Hindmarch. Within hours they became a fashion accessory, turning up for sale on eBay for hundreds of pounds.

Many other supermarkets followed in their footsteps, with Asda holding a design competition for their own Bag For Life campaign. Some supermarkets held a Bag For Life amnesty, whereby people could get a free bag for life in return for 5 plastic carriers.

In the UK alone, an average household has 16 bags, with over 40% having 40 bags, most of which are used in pedal bins, instead of eco friendly bin liners.

Ireland saw a 95% decrease in the use of supermarkets carriers when they introduced a 15% levy in 2002, as more people used re-usable eco friendly shopping bags to carry their family groceries home in.

The word on the street is that this year, christmas tree prices are set to soar, mainly due to the weak pound. The average tree this Christmas could set you back £40 and you may struggle to find the most popular species, a Nordmann fir, due to its ever growing popularity.

Don’t be fooled that purchasing an artificial one is better for the environment either! Although artificial trees last longer, they’re made up of PVC which aren’t naturally biodegradable and could therefore pollute a landfill site for many years to come.

Maybe its now time to seriously consider growing your own Christmas Tree in time for Christmas 2009? By growing your own Christmas Tree you will not only save money (the kit costs under £5) but from next year you won’t have to head off out in the cold, load a tree in your car and then have the problem of disposing of it.

By introducing an eco friendly solution to Christmas, this little tree will fast become part of the family and a christmas tradition within itself. Inside this ingenious box are plant seeds, a compost pellet and a terracotta pot, basically everything required to help you get growing and becoming eco friendly.