Miss WWF_Climate Bear & Panda

‘Miss WWF_Climate Bear & Panda’ – was designed and donated to the World Wide Fund for Nature, as official mascot to accompany them to COP15, Copenhagen, December 2009. Miss WWF heads to Copenhagen carrying the reminder to ‘Vote Earth’ 14″ tall, freestanding, fully poseable one of a kind piece. Miss WWF is made from a

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History of Ecobears

Ecobears began life on February 29th 1996, as a combination of two passions: soft-toymaking and environmental interest. In 1993 a man named John Parkinson made fabrics that mixed hemp with mungo (wool fibres obtained from cloth), and shoddy (shredded pieces of old cloth) from a company in Dewsbury, West Yorkshire, England.  The hemp was grown

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Just in Time for Christmas

So – at last, at long, long last – it’s finally arrived.  A moment of eternally awaited anticipation, of endless patience and belief that ‘one day’, yes ‘one day’ it will happen. It began all of twelve years ago; the idea for an ‘Ecobears’ children’s book.  It was so obvious back then.  It all made

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