A new online guide to eco-friendly places to stay in the UK has just been launched.   It features on the website ecofriendlytourist.com  ? an independent consumer guide to green holidays based entirely on journalistic research.   The guide to places to stay will grow month by month and aims to become the most comprehensive on the web.   

Holidaymakers planning to travel abroad are being urged to reduce their effect on the environment.

The Travel Foundation is setting up new carbon emission reduction programmes designed to reduce the "carbon footprint" of holidaymakers in destinations worldwide by means of initiatives such as low energy technology in hotels, better insulation and the use of low carbon tourist vehicles.

Holidaymakers can support the work of the Travel Foundation by making a donation when they book with operators including First Choice Holidays, Thomas Cook, and Sunvil, or by visiting thetravelfoundation.org.uk, or by texting the word "donate" to 61199.

The new initiative, starting initially with Defra , is aimed at reducing the environmental consequences of official travel, including their carbon emissions. Material will be made available to officials which will allow them to make more sustainable travel choices.

First Choice is committed to working to reduce the environmental impacts of all our activities, and our support for the valuable work being done by the Travel Foundation is a key part of our focus on sustainability. We are delighted that most of our customers choose to make a donation to the foundation.

The new Travel Foundation schemes are specifically focused on reducing the carbon emissions of tourism in resort destinations, and complement the Foundation's existing range of sustainability programmes combating poverty and promoting conservation of destination environments and their wildlife enjoyed by British holidaymakers worldwide; further information about the Foundation's work is on its website .

Donate your old baby blankets, Terry nappies and clothes, and Hipp Organic will give 50p to ?Feed the children? for every parcel received.  Hipp has announced it is repeating the successful ?Blankets for Babies ? campaign which runs until the end of December 2007.

The first ?Blankets for Babies? campaign took place during 2006 and parents were asked to send items by post direct to the ?Feed the Children ?. The campaign succeeded in not only generating many much needed baby blankets and baby clothes; but also ?5000 which funded shipment of the items abroad to those in need.

We urge all parents to dig out their unwanted baby things and send them in for the new campaign. Sending just one item in an A4 envelope will suffice.  For every package sent in, Hipp will again donate 50 pence to ?Feed the Children?.

Brian Main from Feed the Children comments "Working with Hipp on the 'Blankets for Babies' campaign was a real success in 2006. I want to thank all the parents who donated previously; and hopefully we'll get an even bigger response this year."

He adds "The children and babies in the regions where we send aid urgently need clothing and blankets for warmth as well as terry nappies which are in such short supply there. Our aim at 'Feed the Children' is to create more opportunities and a brighter future for children who have been neglected, abandoned or exploited as a result of poverty, conflict or disaster."

As a thank you for donations received, Feed the Children will send a free set of 4 colourful Hipp feeding spoons to everybody who includes their name and address with their donation.

Items should be sent in the post, along with the senders name and address if the feeding spoons are required to: Hipp 'Blankets for Babies' campaign, Feed the Children, 2 Tavistock Industrial Estate, Ruscombe Lane, Twyford, Berks, RG10 9NJ.