I get so inspired when I see people doing creative thinking and using their resourcefulness in making new things from old things.
These creative people are melting plastic bags and sew the melting plastic into courier bags. Watch them in action and get inspired to make one for yourself!
I just love it!!! 2 arms up for [...]
Posts under ‘greener living’
Re-using plastic bags in inspiring ways
Our breathing trees
In my progression with the Presence Process suggested by Michael Brown, I am becoming more and more aware of my breathing. My breathing pattern and my periods of non-breathing during certain activities throughout the day. Just the simply fact of practicing breathing twice a day for 15 minutes is training me to actually pay attention [...]
Recycling plastic for train tracks
Here is an other great example of recycling. Especially when we talk about recycling plastic.
Plastic is a commodity that needs to be understood and considered as one of the most durable mand made material on our planet. Good plastic will last many life times. Its utilities are so diverse; from the surgeons tools to the [...]
Farm - bicylcle delivery and your dinner
Do you see the link or the trail?
Some of us desire to eat locally grown food, some of us are cycling advocates and some of us love to eat in the comfort of our home and with our family home prepared food.
And someone here in Vancouver, British Columbia has thought of a great way to [...]
Do you wish to be recycled into the sea after you dye?
What do you think about the idea of recycling your bones into coral reefs after you die ?
If you think this to be a strange but interesting concept, I invite you to have a look at this brilliant, sensitive and highly creative concept by Eternal Reefs Inc.
HOW DOES NATURE DO IT?
Nature has already solved so many if not all of the problems we are trying to solve, with it’s own perfect “industrial designs” . We have been acting as if, we humans, have to keep reinventing the wheel each time we have a flat tire.
Let us stop for a moment and observe the wasps and [...]
The story of stuff
You may know or have seen documentary The Inconvenient Truth, or Industrial Landscape or Plastic oceans or any other documentary on related topics.
The Story of Stuff is by far, in my opinion, the most direct and easy to watch documentary I’ve seen.
Bravo to Annie Leonard who’s done a fantastic job at making this “stuff” so [...]
How jellybeans grow
A little girl was standing in front of my display table at the Folk fest with her mother. While I was talking with her mother, the little girl was looking at the sprouting beans in a Moukinet mesh bag I had hanging, and at the mini Moukinets filled with jellybeans displayed right next to [...]
Our guerilla community garden
We did it! We took possession of our land and have planted seeds and it bared fruits, well mostly vegetables!
This piece of land that is in the back of our apartment building use to be an old back lane, way in the days back then where we moved ourselves and our cargaison around with the [...]
Spilt Milk moms reviewed Moukisac
Here’s what they had to say about Moukisac: click here for their blog review.