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In brief: Renewable Reuters, green tours, Heinz soup and organic jeans

Fin's jeans are organic and fair trade
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From green tours in London to multinationals in trouble, we've got the latest green news. Today we look at green fashion, food, leisure and business news.

Green tours in London wins grant
Love London, the organisation behind London Sustainability Weeks, awarded the most exciting events ideas for London Sustainability Weeks 2008 with seven small grants yesterday. The overall winner was Cate Trotter's Future London, which will be offering tours of London's green world. These can include visits to quirky, independent shops, specific design projects and special events.

Renewable Reuters
Imagine the amount of energy the massive news agency Reuters uses. Well, now at least its offices in the South West of England are powered by Opus Energy's 100 per cent renewable energy from a Cornish wind farm. Now it's everyone else's turn to follow suit!

Heinz versus Farmers Markets
The Advertising Standards Agency (ASA) has received complaints that the ads for Heinz's Farmers' Market Soups mislead consumers to think Heinz uses vegetables from Farmers' Markets to make the soup. The ASA ruled that most viewers would come to the logical conclusion that a multinational, all-year round company would not make its canned soups from vegetables sourced from local farmer's markets. We'd imagine you'd have to be living in a hole not to assume that.

Good legs
Norwegian organic and fair trade fashion brand Fin has just launched its spring and summer denim range (above). The cool jeans come in straight, narrow or mid-calf lengths in a variety of washes and are available in the UK from £100.

Posted: 26 March 2008, 04:28pm by Rikke Bruntse-Dahl
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