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What is so eco-friendly about shopping at Nature's Market?

Nature's Market, our online store, offers a variety of organic, natural and eco-labeled products. In order to provide consumers with information on eco-friendly and healthy products, each offers links to further detailed information on contents, certifications, and recycling possibilities. The idea is that as you browse our online store you also learn about each label and what they stand for simply by moving the curser over them. This applies to the eco-labels, the organic certifications as well as the fair trade and recycling labels. Today we can offer over three hundred products in twentynine departments, and the selection just keeps growing. Our aim is to provide products from all product categories.

Another thing to mention about Nature's Market is that your purchases will be delivered straight to your doorstep. CO2 emissions and other harmful effects of transportations are thus kept to a minimum, as the mail-delivery drives by your home most days anyway. Driving your own car from store to store on the other hand pollutes more as well as costing you both money and time.

Shopping on Nature's Market can thus be both cheaper and more eco-friendly when all things are considered. Furthermore the Product Search enables you to narrow the search down to the producer, label and certification.

Choose a department here to the right.
How do I shop on the Nature market?

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Water use

Iceland has considerable freshwater resources, estimated at around 666,667 m3/per person per year. As a comparison, freshwater resources in many African countries are less than 1000 m3/per person per year. In Iceland, water is plentiful, and water use is generally not a problem. In Reykjavik, each inhabitant uses about 155 m3/per year or around 155,000 liters of cold water each year. In the Vestmann islands, where drinking water is scarce, each inhabitant uses only about 46 m3/ári of cold water. That is around one third of the water use in Reykjavik.

The main problem related to waste of cold water is unnecessary energy usage (mainly energy used in heating up water). Water use can be very variable depending on the different types of products. Let’s look at 3 groups of products where water use is important. When washing a car it is only the direct use of cold water that matters, but in washing machines and dishwashers less water, means less water that has to be heated with energy.

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Drinking Water Source

You´ll find information about drinking water sources in Iceland here on the Green Map.

The description for this icon is as follows: 
Official drinking water sources and protected water zones.

See more about drinking water sources in Iceland here on the Green Map in the category „Drinking Water Source".

Graphic: The icon for the Green Map® System category “Drinking Water Source“.

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Energy - Water

While water use is extensive in Iceland, Icelanders still tend to believe that it does not matter at all how much is used, be it cold for drinking or hot for showering. It is possible to save water in various ways, for instance, using a water saving shower head can save more than half of the water used in usual showering. The shower is just as comfortable and cleansing when you use less water. Try it!

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Málþing á 100 ára afmæli vatnsveitu Reykjavíkur

Í ár eru 100 ár frá því vatnsveita tók til starfa í Reykjavík og olli hún byltingu í lífsskilyrðum borgarbúa. Þessa hefur verið minnst með margvíslegum allt þetta ár sem og þess að Orkuveita Reykjavíkur er 10 ára.
Lokahnykkur hátíðarhaldanna er málþing um vatns- og veitumál. Það er haldið á morgun, föstudaginn 16. október í höfuðstöðvum Orkuveitu Reykjavíkur að Bæjarhálsi 1 og hefst kl. 13:00. Aðgangur að málþinginu er öllum opinn. Dagskrá þess má sjá hér.

Saga veitnanna kemur út á morgun
Að málþinginu loknu mun borgarstjórinn í Reykjavík fá afhent fyrsta eintak sögu Vatnsveitu, Rafmagnsveitu og Hitaveitu Reykjavíkur, en bækurnar koma út á morgun. Höfundar þeirra eru sagnfræðingarnir Hilmar Garðarsson, Lýður Björnsson og Sumarliði R. Ísleifsson.
Þá verður einnig opnuð á morgun sögusýningin „Vatnaskil, dropar úr sögu Vatnsveitunnar í 100 ár.“ Sýningin er í Galleríi 100° sem er til húsa að Bæjarhálsi 1, í höfuðstöðvum Orkuveitu Reykjavíkur. Á sýningunni gefur m.a. að líta kamarhurð skreytta af Jóhannesi Kjarval, listmálara.
Afmælisnefnd hefur verið starfandi frá því í byrjun afmælisársins. Í nefndinni eiga sæti þau Guðrún Zoëga sem veitt hefur starfinu forystu, Alfreð Þorsteinsson fyrrverandi stjórnarformaður Orkuveitunnar, Hólmsteinn Sigurðsson framkvæmdastjóri hjá Orkuveitunni, Jóna Gróa Sigurðardóttir fyrrverandi borgarfulltrúi í Reykjavík og Guðjón Magnússon, sviðsstjóri Umsýslu- og almannatengsla hjá fyrirtækinu.

Á fræðsluvef Orkuveitu Reykjavíkur
Margháttaðar upplýsingar og fróðleik um vatnsveituna er að finna á Fræðsluvef Orkuveitu Reykjavíkur. Hér að neðan eru tenglar á myndskeið á vefnum:
Saga vatnsveitu
Heilnæmi vatns
Vatnstökusvæði í Reykjavík
Gvendarbrunnar

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