The Environment Action Association (EAA) has just announced their very first annual environmental video contest “The Greener me, the Better us.” EAA invites you to submit a funny, creative video portraying how each of us can reduce our environmental impact and what we can do to protect Mother Earth. Topics include but are not limited to: energy & water conservation, recycling, composting, buying local, reusing, and consumption, etc.

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Cameras at the ready… it’s ‘The Greener Me, The Better Us’ Video Contest

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Click to view the full size image on the Reusable Bags website Source: Reusable Bags

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Our polluted world – an infographic

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A: When Farai’s had his creative way with it! Farai is a member of the Mother City Craft Collective , a collective of traffic-light crafters who you can see selling their wares as you drive through the streets of Cape Town.   This group of Zimbabwean crafters have joined forces to expand their market and create an alternative outlet for their crafts, an online shop .  This has brought a new set of challenges for these artists, because the traditional wire & bead and wirework crafts that they produce are pretty heavy, which results in very high postage costs. To reduce the price of postage ( and consequently the carbon footprint of the piece ) Farai has come up with an interesting solution.  He’s using recycled materials that are a lot lighter than the materials that he usually works with. These recycled Coke can animals and more are available from the Mother City Craft Collective’s recycled range , and as you’ll see, both the cost of the products and the postage costs are considerably less than the traditional.  While buying crafts from this store makes a huge difference in the lives of these traffic-light crafters, by choosing from the recycled range you will be making a huge difference to the environment too

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Q: When is a Coke can an elephant (or possibly a giraffe)?

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If you’re a regular reader, you’ll probably have noticed that I haven’t been posting here lately.  So I thought I’d tell you about what’s been keeping me away from blogging here. No time to read this?  Then please just click on over here to see what I’m doing now

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I’m constantly awed and  inspired by the amazing artists that share their work online, and two of my favourite artists who make art out of materials that some would throw away are Cynthia Korzekwa and Janet Botes .  Do go and have a look at their work, because if this blog post interests you, these ladies certainly will excite you. But back to the point because I actually want to show you some pretty things made of plastic bottles

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Pretty things made of plastic bottles

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Title: Drum Kit Year: 2003 Materials: tin cans, metal wire Dimensions: L 27 cm W 22 cm H 16 cm [ Recyclart ]

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EcoArt: Helmut Smits’ tin can drum kit

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UK urban land artist and guerilla gardener Anna Garforth turned 2-litre milk bottles into cute characters with green hair-does and put them out in the streets for everyone to enjoy. She calls this project “Head Gardner”. [via Recyclart ] This blog post is cross-posted at ecojunki

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Head Gardener: urban eco-art

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There are such pretty eco things in my feed reader this morning, I just have to share. As a cult object and symbol of a responsible attitude, cycling made its comeback in many major cities. Very likely, it became the flagship of the new eco-committed generation.

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Pretty eco things

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Greendrinks.org describes itself as an organic, self-organising network of people interested in green living and/or who work in the environmental field. It’s a great place to meet people who view the environment the way you do. I’ve attended the Newlands meet-up at Josephine Mill before, and met a guy who builds wind turbines in his backyard, an alternative energy expert, composting toilet specialist, artist, blogger and architect.

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I’m loving Greendrinks.org

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Most think of mending as drudgery.  Some think of it as another way to be creative, while extending the life of a pair of jeans and saving money, and **being green** . The Unpredictable Geography of Mending [dainty time]

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The unpredictable geography of mending

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