“I can’t wear that! It’s SOO last season.” Instead of trying to eternally keeping up with the Hiltons why not create you own fashion?
Well, now you can! Project Dlaat (Project Pumpkin) is an environmental-social project. Its purpose is to promote recycling by providing second-hand clothing and channels the proceeds to different social purposes.
Let your towel hang dry in between uses so that you can reuse your towel. After your shower you should be clean. You are not necessarily getting your towel dirty by drying yourself of on it. If you do this you not only will be saving money on washing costs, water and the time you would waste doing washes, your towels will last much longer. Also, you will not be dispersing as much toxic soaps into our water… It’s an easy way to save for yourself and save your planet and of course…
A great way to GreenYourselfDaily.
We here at Green Prophet are all about writing about the environment, and so we were very excited when an ‘environmental writing residency’ opportunity cropped up and landed on the desk today, and eager to share this with our readers.
An organisation based in Minnesota, USA is giving writers and artists the chance to stay and work at a research station on the banks of the St. Croix River in Minnesota, for sessions of different lengths ranging from 2 to 4 weeks, from May through to August, as artists in residence. They are calling for applications from “natural history artists and writers, who seek field experience and closeness to nature to provide inspiration for their work.”
Remember, you can always take more, but most people won’t appreciate it if you put your unfinished food back into the pot. This way you won’t have to plan tomorrow’s lunch and you can GreenYourselfDaily.
Cardboard solutions upcycle wasted materials into portable cradle.
So being an ecomum, buying new furniture for my daughter is not really my style, but when something like an EcoCradle comes along I am seriously tempted and definitely recommend this as the eco-guilt-free solution for parents or grandparents who would like to buy new furniture. To make it even better this cardboard-sourced EcoCradle is blue and white brought to us by cardboard furniture company Green Lullaby (and another ecomum). It’s made from recycled cardboard and toxin-free fire-retardants.
Israel is known for it’s plastic shopping bags. While it’s better to bring your own reusable sturdy shopping bags when you go shopping, sometimes we find ourselves deciding to stop by the store spontaneously. Of course that would be the only way we would find ourselves using plastics…
If you are going to use plastic bags from the store save them and reuse them. They make great small trashcan bags or for cleaning up after Spartacus, your dog. These bags also make a great alternative for packing instead of newspapers.
So keep your bags, be creative and GreenYourselfDaily.
We’ve had several rainstorms this year but it seems that they are not enough. This winter’s meager rainfall has done nothing to replenish shrinking Golan Heights streams or the mountain and coastal aquifers, and concern is growing again for the country’s water supply.
“Cute little trickles like this will not save Lake Kinneret,” Yeruham Kantman, director of the Keshet Nehusha field school in Moshav Keshet on the Golan Heights said.
You’d think that some rain is good, but quality is not enough. We need quantity as well. “It takes three days of hard rain for a strong flow, for the soil to be soaked and forthe water to wash to the streams.
“So far this year we’ve only had brief rainfalls and hence a 1 cm rise in the Kinneret. When the flow is strong the Kinneret level rises some 5 cm a day, ” explains Hillel Glazman, the head of stream monitoring for the Israel Nature and Parks Protection Authority (INPA).
In the 3rd of this series of water-related posts, following on from our recent news of a whale dying in the Mediterranean Sea (which you can read here) on the sad death of a whale off the coast of Ashkelon, Israel we look at the pioneering activism of the sea Shepherd Conservation Society, who exist under the directorship of Captain Paul Watson, to protect and preserve whales and all the creatures of the sea, from human cruelty and exploitation.
Originally formed in 1977 by ex-Greenpeace co-founder Watson, the work of Sea Shepherd ranges from baby seal protection, preventing illegal poaching, whaling and shark hunting, and upholding and enforcing all International laws governing the World’s oceans (see ocean despoliation here) and marine life. (Why are hundreds of whale fetuses in a museum in Norway?)
The Society and its leader are controversial due to their methods of engagement with whaling vessels and those involved in these activities. The International laws are very shady and circumspect, and several Countries over the years have backtracked on their commitment to end whaling. Japan and Norway are particularly guilty of this.
Japan in particular reserves the right to kill a set number of whales annually ‘in the name of research’. Sea Shepherd and Independent sources claim that this whale meat is then sold on the open market.
Watson and his committed crew of volunteers from all around the world, ram whaling ships, try to divert them off course, fly (in a helicopter) at them, spray smoke flares over the ships, and come close to the letter of the law in activist action.
Sea Shepherd is run entirely on the donations it receives from worldwide supporters, and this includes the 4 ships currently in the society’s fleet, called Neptune’s Navy.
Volunteer crew members on the ships speak of the “moral need” to be doing the work they do, sometimes risking their own lives in harsh conditions to try to protect the lives of whales and other ocean inhabitants.
Green Prophet commends the organisation, and seeing the work that they do is hopeful both for the marine environment and the morality of humanity.
Check out their website here: www.seashepherd.org
They’re up, then they’re down. Up, then down. The story with the billboards along the Tel Aviv Ayalon Highway is a bit of a yo yo. Activists fight to have them taken down for polluting our collective consciousness and then advertisers win the battle and the billboards are up again.
That’s why we excited to hear about Naomi’s Abu YoYo (meaning piggyback ride) company which is designing goods from billboard waste. Check out her kitchen accessories for drying dishes, bags and office products.
Naomi writes Green Prophet, “In my small studio in Tel-Aviv I am designing and producing bags and accessories for the office and home, which are all made of used advertisment banners.
“In the struggle to forbid the large ads in Tel Aviv and on the highways, little is said about the material those things are made out of … well, it’s plastic, a very toxic variety, and tons of it is disposed of in unfriendly ways. (Only in Tel Aviv, at least 6,900 meters of it are produced and disposed of every month!).”
Naomi’s idea is not entirely new. We’ve heard of projects like this from Berlin, but we love how design and social consciousness are now merging in Israel.
More sustainable design from Israel
Read more about sustainable design in Israel:
Beauty Increases Sustainability, According to Designer Gadi Amit
Ten Sustainable Israeli Designers Who Reduce, Reuse & Recycle
Religious Jews will not turn on or off electricity on the Sabbath. Their solution? A timer electrical outlet, a shabbas-clock. Set the times you want the appliance plugged in to be on and let it go…
To save energy these outlets are great to use for space heaters. If you use space heaters when those cold nights hit so does the dilemma of whether to keep your heater on or not hits as well. If you use these outlets you can have your heater turn on and off periodically throughout the night. I personally have it on as I fall asleep and set it to turn on again about 15 minutes before I wake up. This way I can wake up warm and save energy.
You can do this too and GreenYourselfNightly.
If you aren’t doing this already you’re probably saying: Are you out of your mind?! I can’t do that! Or perhaps: Yeah, I know I should, I will tomorrow. While tomorrow just becomes the next day…
It’s time to stop pushing this off. Make tomorrow today. If you don’t have time, make some, it’s for your health as well as your planet’s. If you are out of shape, this is your chance to get into shape. If it’s “not for you” ask yourself what about being healthy is “not you.”
By biking, walking jogging or running to get between short distances you are not only assuring your continuing health yourself but you are reducing carbon emissions.
What a wonderful way to GreenYourselfDaily.
Almost every office has one. Sitting in the corner with that strange square body with a big blue head… The water cooler! Ahh just the thought of it makes me feel thirsty. I love the “glub glub” when you pour yourself a cup of water.
Well it might be time to say goodbye to that lovely musical sound when pouring oneself a cup.
No, there is not ban; water-coolers are not becoming illegal. Something better has come to town. Imagine not having to waste precious office space with those gigantic 5 gallon bottles, or not having to order more when you are running low. Imaging if you could extract water from thin air…
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Much of the bottled water on the market is actually not so natural. As a rule, bottled water is no safer or healthier than the H2O that flows from municipal water systems. Many are bottled from natural sources; however, some are simply filtered or even only tap water in a fancy package. The ones that do come from natural sources sometimes can be destructive to the environments from which they are pumped.
The biggest problem with bottled water is the packaging. Empty bottles add to litter and solid waste. If you re-use your bottles by filling them with filtered water you can keep our world clean from excess plastic waste and it’s a great way to GreenYourselfDaily.
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