Saving energy thanks to GDF Suez, Gaz de France Dolcevita is now possible. Their website on ecology is playful and attractive. Check the impact of your home on nature, thanks to the website “les éco-habitants”. Create your eco-habitat on the pattern of your real house, and see the valuation of its current energy consumption. Then, you’ll be suggested solutions to reduce it.
Insulating attic, windows, walls, floors, using a condensing boiler, or a low consumption or wood boiler, solar water-heater… These works and devices are described on the website, to help you make your living place more environment-friendly. And if you need further guiding, just get the inspiration from the best eco-inhabitants in your neighborhood!

Bio2Baby was launched by 2 mothers motivated by the same commitment: to teach their kids to respect their environment and the “real values” of life. The arrival of a baby is a time to question ourselves and to change our habits. A mother wants to protect her child and give him only what’s best in terms of food, clothing and toys, and that’s when the words “ethical” and “responsible ecology” take a whole new meaning. The website www.bio2baby.fr offers a large variety of green friendly and organic products to mothers, like breastfeeding products, milk bottles, blankets ,soft toys, as well as cloth diapers, products for the bedroom and child safely products. They cover the needs of children from birth to 3 years old. Bio2Baby is bound to make you and your baby happy!

The goal is to offer the largest possible variety of green products designed for children, but also to support charities. The money collected through wrapping paper (printed on green friendly material, using a green friendly process) is directly donated to a charity called “the Healing Laughter”, who works with hospitalized young children, trying to entertain them.

Finally, they offer us a preview on the clothing line of the American Brand Kissy Kissy. Designed in Peru and made of organic cotton, those clothes are soft and top of the range.

www.bio2baby.fr

You feel that acting for environment in your personal life isn’t enough anymore? Then change your professional life and pitch on an eco-job for 2010. The website Suprgreen.com is a portal where job-seekers and employers are linked to each other through job offers or positive training courses, for a sustainable future. Created in 2009 by Stéphane Bordage, Jérémy Chatard and Vincent Godard, our site is 100% free. We won’t ask you to pay to post an offer, unlike our competitors.
What’s to be found on Suprgreen.com? Positions in sustainable transportation, green building, greenit (green computing), or even in cleantech (environment friendly industries). It amounts to saying that  you’ll find what you’re looking for on this website for sure! Suprgreen… future on hand.

info@suprgreen.com

In the face of global ecological issues, more and more operators bring out a “green mobile”. Nokia, Sony Ericsson and Samsung were the first to become aware that it was about time to change the way we consume. Don’t forget that nowadays, a cellphone contains nearly 63% plastic and various metals (iron, zinc, nickel…), and that its short lifetime (about one year and a half) contribute to the increase of polluting waste. Yet, the telephone operators committed themselves to recycling our old cellphones. So, if you’re charmed by the new smartphones which are flooding the market, don’t forget to recycle your former mobile.

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Opened since March 2008, La Cooperative is a cultural and fair café where activists get together to discuss themes linked with environment. The bar also organizes musical theme evenings, as well as exhibition all along the year. A plus point? You can enjoy a bio sandwich, or go shopping among products coming from fair trade, such as Max Havelaar (Transfair).

Opened on Monday 4pm to 10pm, from Tuesday to Thursday 11am to 10pm, and on Friday and Saturday 11am to 2am.

La Cooperative
7, rue Lagille
75018 Paris
France
T. : +33.(0)1.42.29.26.65
lacooperative@laposte.net

Bazar Bio is an on line concept store following up the latest trends while promoting an alternative way of consuming. This online shop is showing that you can be a fashion victim and have a responsible behavior, and  fashion addicts will definitely find what they like there.
Bazar Bio offers bodycare, facials, hair products and make up for men, women and children. Young mums or mothers to be also have their own category with jewellery and specific products adapted to their needs. Bazar Bio is not only selling beauty products, but also a large number of accessories. They are so chic and friendly, they appeal to the green friendly lovers of glamour who also care about their planet. There’s not much choice in terms of decoration for now, but, to remain in the green spirit, the shop offers lawn to decorate your house. Unfortunately, the bags at EUR 350 each don’t make “green accessible to all”, which is what it’s supposed to be, but there’s a “green and cheap” category with a big and attractive selection of cheap beauty products. Commited all the way, Bazar Bio delivers its products in green packaging.

1/ Let’s talk about your concept. How did you came up with the idea of creating a website for green hotels only ?
William Rousseau: By creating Biolodging I combined my passion for hotel business, my love of nature (I come from a family of farmers who turned to organic production 20 years ago) and my awareness regarding environmental issues. Before, when I was working as the manager for International Development Business at Carlson Wagonlit Travel, I also noted that the customers need weren’t met, and the offer wasn’t structured.When I saw that, started Biolodging

2/ Is Bilodging a label, or a collection ?
William Rousseau: Biolodging is not a label, its purpose is to gather the independent establishments registered by focusing on their initiatives and by centralizing the offers of green trips for customers. Nevertheless, it’s true that most establishments have a green label (European Green Label, Green Key, or Green Globe), which makes their initiatives even more efficient. You could say that Biolodging is a “network” of green hotels, with deep convictions about ecology. Together, they can make a more powerful statement. They are stronger as a network than isolated.

3/ What do you look for in a hotel to be part of Biolodging ?
William Rousseau: I have spent a great deal of time thinking about how to select hotels. It took almost a year, by questionning people in that business, with the help of experts in sustainable development. Since our intent was not to become yet another label, and since we were not legitimate to do so, we made a list of   30 requirements, with the travelers as our n° 1 priority.
It’s the result of those studies on the field that gave us ground to make this list (based on 3 things : ecology, well being, and the human factor) With that list we can not only select, but also evaluate the initiatives of each hotel in a positive and accessible way.

4/ Biolodging is also a blog . What do you talk about in it? What’s it’s purpose?
William Rousseau: This blog has been on line for almost a year now, and we talk about issues linked with “sustainable location” (how to handle it in a good way,   the construction techniques, the labels, the technology, the common sense…)but also about the latest news regarding this issue. Our targets are the hotel managers and also the general public, because everybody is interested in those issues…

5/ For now,  Biolodging is only present in France. Do you plan to expand in Europe and on an international level?
William Rousseau: Yes, we started last March with a selection of 23 “green boutique hotels” in France. We have 30 now, and I am really happy to see new candidates showing up regularly. Right from the beginning, I had international ambitions for Biolodging, (as its name indicates). Expand in Europe is our next step, but I try to stay realistic because you have to manage your original market really well before trying to expand. But I already received request from Italians, Canadians and from Marroco… It’s very encouraging.