Posted on 04 June 2008
Bionsen kindly sent me a bottle of its deodorant for me to test. Usually I’m a spray deodorant kind of guy but not being able to send aerosols through the post, I opted for the pump spray. At £2.49 it’s not unreasonable, although I tend to choose my spray by being on special offer so [...]
Tags: deodorant, Health, review, Shopping
Posted on 28 April 2008
This video made my day. It’s small, it’s real, it’s brilliant.
It’s a great example of how media is changing from something through which to disperse information to becoming a tool for (collective) action. It’s a little long, but worth the patience.
“As citizens and as consumers, we may not be able to wield a great deal [...]
Tags: Business, campaign, Shopping
Posted on 15 April 2008
One of the reasons why I haven’t been writing regularly enough for GreenGuysGlobal has been the amount of work that I’ve been doing on my friend of GGG site, Life Goggles.
We’re a green product review site, so to celebrate our redesign, we’ve launched a massive eco product competitions. Currently there are 83 prizes with a [...]
Tags: competition, Shopping
Posted on 01 January 2008
A few days a go I had found a article in Good Housekeeping which talked about what are these fancy names we put on products in the store like “natural” and “no CFC’s” and what they really mean to the consumer. I had read this article and knew about most of the labels and learned [...]
Tags: drink, Families, food, Health, Shopping
Posted on 13 December 2007
Recently I had been sent a e-mail with a link to this wonderful video that explained that as consumers most of us don’t see or see too little of what the big picture has to tell us about what the real cost of what it takes to produce a product in terms of money, [...]
Tags: consumerism, Education, Employment, Pollution, Shopping