About Us
British Eco.com is the UK’s premier website for all things green and eco. As well as providing eco news and information, British Eco stocks a unique range of green, fairtrade and eco friendly products and services for the home, garden and outdoor life - from solar lights to eco cleaning products, ground source heat pumps, solar hot water panels to eco experience days out.
NEW:
You may already be familiar with BritishEco.com, our website for all things green and eco. Now we have launched our renewable energy division to offer guidance and advice to the growing number of homeowners that are becoming interested in renewable energy. BritishEcoEnergy.com is a website dedicated to offering honest, independent and down to earth advice on renewable and energy saving technology; with everything from solar panels to wind turbines.
BritishEcoEnergy.com is an independent company. Because we are not tied to any particular technology or supplier we can provide unbiased, honest advice for homeowners, businesses, schools and councils on energy saving and the products that will help in the battle to reduce carbon emissions.
Over the past five years we have helped thousands of customers across the country to choose and install the right renewable product for them. We work closely with our customers to help them assess the energy efficiency of their home through our Domestic Energy Assessors. Our valuable consultancy service then helps them to identify and recommend the best renewable products to meet every individual’s needs. We won’t be beaten on price, but we also won’t compromise on the quality of our products, their installation or our after-care service.
British Eco.com was founded in 2002 by Nick Pringle (an ex employee of Lastminute.com) in his bedroom at Newcastle. After several years of developing the website and increasing the product range on his own, Nick decided to move on and sold the business to Andrew and Catherine Moore who are based in Farnham Common, Bucks.
Andrew was desperate to run his own business after several years as a software salesman for large US corporates. Other experiences in his life, including helping run the family electrical shop as well as several years of overseas development work in Africa and Bangladesh, all helped inspire Andrew and Catherine to take the plunge and become eco dot com entrepreneurs.
Recent initiatives have included developing a network of over 70 local Eco Agents, who promote eco friendly products in their communities as well as generating extra income for the agents.
British Eco.com has become synonymous with eco value, innovation and service. The website is seen as the first port of call when consumers and the media want to see the very latest green and eco products from around the world.
British Eco.com is an innovative company with many partners. For example, we have recently teamed up with an international charity offering fairtrade ethical goods made by people affected by Leprosy. The company is also a specialist in renewable energy.
One of the things that makes British Eco.com different is our attention to service. We pride ourselves in offering a service that is second to none. British Eco is a “one-stop-shop” for all your eco needs at prices everyone can afford. “Save money and help save the planet.” The two can go nicely together.
Andrew Moore
June 2007
SUPPLIERS
If you are a manufacturer or producer and would like to feature your products on the site please get in touch with relevant information by sending an email to info@britisheco.com. We are interested in products that can fit in the following categories organic, renewable energy, solar powered, gardening, farmshop, crafts, outdoor pursuits, green DIY and building, recycled. etc.
CORPORATE
We are increasingly getting enquiries and orders from large corporate and governmental organisations who are attempting to improve their sustainability or are participating in helping charities and schools with green and garden projects. Recent clients have included The Royal Mail, Eden Project, Bristol Zoo, Unilever, Smithkline Beecham, Zurich Corporate Finance, Environment Agency, Oxfordshire County Council and SEPA. If you are part of a large company or government organisation and are looking for ways to help your environmental performance please get in touch.
BritishEco Ltd
Registered Office: 10 Sherbourne Walk, Farnham Common, Bucks Sl2 3TZ
VAT No. GB 892 7534 80
Company number: 05834500
PRESS
If you are a journalist and would like more info on the site, or any of the products featured or any other queries please contact us via the
contact us page. We can provide high res digital images for product reviews and features.
Alternatively please contact our media representatives Green Rocket:
Daniel Bettridge
Account Manager
Green Rocket
Ethical media relations
T 01273 779220
E daniel@greenrocketgroup.com
www.greenrocketgroup.com
ETHICAL POLICY
INTRODUCTION
This Ethical Policy serves as a guideline for all the company's business practices. Through its business practises the company seeks to support the principles of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR). The company's position on Human Rights reflects the core requirements of the UDHR, such as freedom from torture, unjustified imprisonment, unfair trial and other oppression. It also includes freedom of expression, religion and political or other representation.
2 HUMAN RIGHTS
On the basis of this policy the company will not provide support or work with:
2.1 businesses or organisations which fail to uphold basic human rights within their sphere of influence. The company recognises that businesses have the opportunity to ensure that human rights are upheld in all those aspects of their operations that they could reasonably expect to control. These can include:
• direct control, such as labour conditions within their factories, for example, or use of land for their operations;
• more indirect influence, for example, companies occupying positions of strategic importance within a country often have opportunities to affect positive social change beyond their own operations.
2.2 businesses or organisations with links to an oppressive regime - regimes where basic human rights, as set out in the UDHR, are denied in a systematic manner over time. By "links to an oppressive regime" the company means:
• businesses operating in states governed by oppressive regimes, whose activities are considered to support or benefit the regime, usually at the expense of the indigenous population;
• businesses using state security forces or supplying arms to state security forces within an oppressive regime.
3 ARMS TRADE
3.1 The company will not provide support or work with businesses or organisations involved in the manufacture or transfer of armaments to oppressive regimes, including:
• companies which manufacture for or sell to oppressive regimes systems (or products) that kill, maim or destroy;
• companies who issue licences for the production of armaments for oppressive regimes;
• individuals or organisations involved in the brokerage of armaments to oppressive regimes;
• companies which export products to oppressive regimes that, while not designed to kill, maim or destroy, are parts for equipment which have a battlefield application or are essential to the operation of a weapon, such as radar and electronic warfare, military communications and armour.
3.2 The company will not provide support or work with businesses or organisations involved in the manufacture of torture equipment or other equipment that is used in the violation of human rights, including business which:
• manufacture torture equipment, including electroshock batons and leg irons;
• manufacture equipment used for execution purposes;
• manufacture and export to oppressive regimes equipment that could be used in the violation of human rights, including water canons, security equipment and surveillance equipment.
4 GLOBAL TRADE
The company advocates and supports the Fundamental International Labour Organisation Conventions. These Conventions are the most widely-accepted standards for minimum labour rights and cover the use of forced labour, use of child labour, collective bargaining and freedom of association. The company will seek to support businesses or organisations that take a responsible position with regard to:
• fair trade;
• labour rights in their own operations and through their supply chains in developing countries.
The company will not support businesses or organisations whose activities include:
• irresponsible marketing practices in developing countries, including inappropriate marketing to children;
• inappropriate financial trading methods;
• tobacco product manufacture or distribution.
5 GENETIC MODIFICATION
The company will not provide support or work with businesses or organisations involved in the development, distribution or marketing of genetically modified organisms (GMOs) where, in particular, the following activities are evident:
• uncontrolled release of GMOs into the environment;
• any negative impacts on developing countries such as the imposition of "Terminator" technologies - technologies that genetically engineer sterility into crop plants, for no other purpose than to protect and enforce corporate patents on GM seeds;
6 ECOLOGICAL IMPACT AND ANIMAL WELFARE
The company actively seeks ways to reduce the ecological impact of its own activities in terms of energy and materials usage. The company will encourage the organisations it works with to take a pro-active stance on the environmental impact of their own activities to avoid repeated damage to the environment and will actively support organisations involved in:
• recycling and sustainable waste management;
• renewable energy and energy efficiency;
• sustainable natural products and services including timber and organic produce;
• the pursuit of ecological sustainability;
• the development of alternatives to animal experimentation;
• farming methods which promote animal welfare.