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The ETA has been voted to be an ethical company like no other for the eleventh year in a row. The Good Shopping Guide each year reveals the good, the bad, and the ugly of the world’s companies and brands, with a view to supporting the growth of social responsibility and ethical business as well as a more sustainable, just society. Beating...

If you have to buy a plastic bottle of water, the best thing to do with it is re-use it. It's the reason we love the bottle shower - a rose attachment that simply twists into place on all narrow neck plastic bottles. When the bottle is upturned the device delivers a constant flow without any need for squeezing. A two-litre bottle holds...

If you’re a fan of self-sufficient holidays and DIY, have you ever considered building your own caravan? The Slidavan is a lightweight 2-berth telescopic DIY caravan designed to fit on a small un-braked trailer with a gross capacity of 500 kilos. No special materials or skills are needed to build a Slidavan, but you will need to dedicate...

Little beats the satisfaction of cycle camping, but after a hard day in the saddle, what better than the promise of a comfortable mattress? Gernot Rammer, Jürgen Haller and Martin Kladensky have spent the last four years refining their idea for an inflatable bicycle caravan – working hard to find the optimum balance between design, weight,...

When Canadians Friedel and Andrew first started cycle touring, they two commuter bikes that were, by their own admission, in terrible shape and almost no cycling experience. It was a desire to travel independently and to experience the ‘places inbetween’ that encouraged them to try cycle touring. The couple started with a big dream – to...

However carefully you lean your bike against an inside wall, tell-tale rubber marks and small chips to the plaster or wall paper are hard to avoid. Gripster is a rubber plug that attaches to the end of either a straight or drop handlebar – it helps prevent the bicycle from slipping or leaving marks and other damage. A built-in magnet allows...

It’s the simple things that make life easier. If you regularly get yourself into trouble for leaving cycling gear lying around, salvation may be here in the form of Neat Cleats - a small and stylish device to gather up your cycling shoes and hang them put of the way. A carabiner makes it easy to store your cycling shoes out of the way in a...

The two most common questions in Tim Hoyle’s house used to be “have you seen my (enter cycling-related item of your choice here)?" and “Can you please put away your (enter cycling-related item of your choice here)?" It’s the reason he invented the Kitnetik, a clever magnetic rack that allows you to efficiently dry all of your current...

How best to convince the rest of your household that storing a bicycle inside your house or flat makes absolute sense? We think a stealthy approach works best. Vadolibero makes a valiant case by disguising its handlebar-shaped revolving bike stand as a 5,500 lumen dimmer light, but at £1,725 it’s not cheap. Our own idea is altogether more...

With BBQ season well and truly upon us, why not ride to the party with a bicycle beer bottle holder? Hanging a heavy carrier bag from your handlebars while riding a bike can be a recipe for disaster and the answer, it seems, is a mallet holder. Geoffrey Franklin started Walnut Studio because he was unable to find the leather accessories he...