EVS Volunteer's: Magda, Fafa, Lauren Blog

Goodguide.com - the website that makes it super easy for you to get all the information you want about over 100,000 products (and counting).

The team of chemists, toxicologists, nutritionists, sociologists and enivronmental experts at goodguide.com analyse the products based on how ethical, healthy and environmentally friendly they are and give them a simple rating out of 10. You can see the breakdown of the ratings in every area and can even personalise your settings so that the site finds products that sit better with what’s most important to you. There’s even a toolbar for shopping online and and mobile app which scans barcodes in the supermarket.

It’s great to see technology making it easier to shop consciously.

Check out this great idea for creating electricity-free light bulbs.

They provide light equivalent to a 55-60 Watt bulb, 10 months a year, for up to 5 years - not bad for materials that cost practically nothing.

Sometimes the simplest ideas really are the best.