Eco Friendly Homes and Offices

If you were in the vicinity of the South Bund recently, you might have come across the Eco Design Fair. Now in its fourth year, the Eco Design Fair brought together exhibitors offering organic and environmentally friendly products and services.

Exhibitors included Arabica Roasters, Bebemamie Food Company, who offer delicious yoghurt and cream cheese among other products, Greendotdot, Ecobibi, with their environmentally friendly baby products and products for women, Zurner, who offer ethnic design bags and jewelry, cool clothing company Snoozer Loser, and organic skin care providers myLOHAS.

Environmentally friendly living solutions are becoming more and more readily available in Shanghai. However, there’s more to sustainable living than hemp handbags and organic tomatoes. We covered the topic of organic food late last year but there are plenty of other aspects of healthy, sustainable living which can be supported in Shanghai.

So what other initiatives going on in Shanghai did the Eco Design Fair highlight?

Help your office become more earth friendly by putting them in touch with Recycle & Save. This company, which is based in Beijing, develops and provides recycled printing supplies, such as remanufactured ink and toner cartridges and recycled paper and office supplies.

Pure Living China can inspect your home or office and analyze ways to improve air and water quality. After they have provided solutions to your air or water woes, they will retest to ensure that improvements have been made.

Climate Action can help companies and individuals to understand carbon emissions and learn how to reduce these. The company also links individuals and companies to projects going on across the world, providing people with the opportunity to support these projects financially. Calculate your carbon footprint on their website, buy carbon offsets, or assess the impact that your office is having on carbon emissions.

OK, if you MUST have a hemp handbag, visit the LiveGreen website.