This April the fantastic UK AWARE exhibition will be taking place at London Olympia. UK AWARE is the UK’s only green and ethical lifestyle exhibition, which invites normal people to come together, with a view to making a difference to climate change.

As a largely social enterprise UK AWARE unites businesses, organisations and individuals and gives them a forum to share advice on living and working more sustainably, without having to sacrifice lifestyle or comfort.

Various products and services are exhibited over the 2 day event – all of which showcase ways to help to live a greener lifestyle. Areas covered include all sorts, from sustainable fashion and beauty to green motor-vehicles. And it isn’t just small, independent businesses choosing to take advantage of this eco-opportunity. More established companies and charities, including BT and Actionaid, are also on hand to advise the 15,000 visitors expected to attend the event.

This year visitors will be treated to all manner of ingenious innovations and developments, including Hubcap Creatures (sculptures made from recycled hubcaps), Bubblehouse Worms (wormfarms that ‘promote global worming’), Twinkes (futuristic light electric/pedal powered mobiles) and many more.

UK AWARE is now in its third year and, as the UK’s only green and ethical lifestyle exhibition it has thrived where all others have failed. As such it attracts both visitors and exhibitors from far and wide. So the issue they faced was where to put them all…

UK AWARE are the first to admit that hotels are notoriously bad for the environment but the Campaign Against Climate Change also bemoans the situation. In 2007 they reported that hotels were responsible for around 2% of the UK’s carbon emissions. Just thinking about the amount of energy wasted on air conditioning, in hotel kitchens and thanks to the enormous amounts of laundry a hotel gets through – is enough to make your eyes water.

Many hotel chains are trying to rectify things but progress is relatively slow. So the organisers of UK AWARE have put forward an alternative solution for out-of-towners who are keen to attend the event, Crashpadding. They suggest that people visit Crashpadder.com to find accommodation that is not only eco-friendly but budget-friendly too.

The basic premise of  Crashpadder – along with other sites like it – is that it is preferable to stay with a friendly local in their spare room than to book a bed in an uncomfortable hostel or an over-priced, environmentally unsound hotel.

The science behind it is pretty simple, while hotels have to maintain rooms and services that are often left unoccupied and wasted, people’s homes are always in use and as such it makes very little difference to the environment to pop an extra person under the same roof.   

The principle of opening your home to strangers in the spirit of good will and collaboration obviously ties in with the principles of UK AWARE. Both are hoping to make the world a better and friendlier place, and allow us to move through it in as positive a way as we possibly can.

To find out more about the UK AWARE event, arrange tickets or even book an exhibition slot for your business or organisation why not visit the UK AWARE website, www.ukaware.com.

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The biggest problem with trying to completely eradicate plastic bag usage is that people use their plastic bags for other purposes. Whether it is picking up dog poop or lining a small trash can, many people recycle their plastic bags.

But let me ask you this: How many plastic bags are currently in your cupboard? How many of these plastic bags will never be used? How many plastic bags do you throw away because you already have an abundant stockpile? Ana Lorenzo has found a solution with her company, The Bag Movement .

The Bag Movement is changing the world one bag at a time! Ana Lorenzo suggests taking a five-pack of her reusable bags to the store and when you buy seven or eight bags of groceries, get a couple plastic bags too. This way you will still maintain your plastic bag stockpile, but you will not throw away the excess bags.

The Bags

Ana Lorenzo has engineered a collection of multi-colored, 100% polyester, reusable bags. Each bag is compact enough to roll-up and fit in your pocket, is strong enough to hold 6 two-liter bottles of soda and durable enough to last 20 trips through the washer. A 5-pack of her bags only costs $14.95 (about $2.50 per bag) while her competitors charge upwards of $35 for 5 bags.

The mission of The Bag Movement is not only to help preserve the environment, but also to generate money for charities. 15% of the net proceeds will be donated to good causes. The different colors of the bags represent different charities. Red bags support AIDS and heart disease research. Blue bags sponsor child abuse prevention. Pink bags support breast cancer research, and so forth. Purchasing and using the bags from The Bag Movement is one simple thing you can do to better the world.

The Company

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency estimates that somewhere between 500 billion and 1 trillion plastic bags are consumed worldwide each year. Ana Lorenzo realizes how harmful plastic bags are to the environment and wants to do something about it. With this in mind, Ana started The Bag Movement out of her home in September of this year.

She also found that people generally do not like purchasing or using reusable bags because they flaunt unsightly logos. Personally, Ana believes that this defeats the purpose of trying to support a good cause. This is why each of her bags displays an awareness ribbon for the various charities she supports.

Over the past few months, Ana has found some creative ways to raise awareness for The Bag Movement. She has marketed her business with an NBC press release, local magazine advertisements, a home remodeling show and even school fundraisers. Ana described the school fundraising program as a “Triple Whammy” of societal contribution (helping the environment, charities and schools)!

Consumers Should Know

Using reusable bags is one simple thing consumers can do to preserve the environment and help charities. Once you develop the habit of taking your reusable bags to the store, it is easy. Plastic bags are an absolute waste. Over an average life time, each person who replaces plastic bags with reusable bags will save over 22,000 bags from our landfills and oceans.

The Company Outlook

To get off the ground, The Bag Movement started as a for-profit. But with her passion of bettering the world, Ana hopes that her company can afford to be non-profit organization in the future.

Ana Lorenzo could not have started her company at a better time. Several countries around the world have already banned plastic bags including China, Bangladesh, Ireland, Rwanda and some parts of Canada. In 2007, San Francisco became the first U.S. city to ban plastic bags and several more U.S. cities are in the process of banning them. Ultimately she hopes that plastic bags will be banned entirely. Until then, Ana Lorenzo and The Bag Movement are well on their way to changing the world one bag at a time.

Nick Tart is the editor of four main sites for Worldwide Marketing Solutions. One of which is Great Earth News. GreatEarthNews.com provides information and tips to help you better the world. Please check out GreatEarthNews.com if you enjoyed reading this article.
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