Plastic waste? An issue to sit on.

Plastic bottle waste is going to be an issue of the past if we can keep coming up with ideas to utilize them.  Here is one from Studio Nuy van Noort to sit on and start thinking.

Be a Green Philanthropist? How?

You want to be a green philanthropist but don’t know how to go about it?  Then, try doing this.

1) Look around to see if you can find any mechanical or industrial equipment that have gone obsolete and could end up at a dump site.

2) Do some creative thinking to see if there are any parts and components that you can salvage to create something out of the ordinary.

3) Selling this eco creation will make you “green” but don’t stop there.  Gain yourself that “Green Philanthropist” title by encouraging your potential buyers to consider donating a sum for a cause you support towards owning it.

Don’t think that will work?

Then you obviously have not heard about Tim Zemanovic, the CEO of Aircraft Demolition, LLC.

Take a look at the High Top Table that his company created from components of aircraft engines.  How cool is that?

This is what he will be offering the highest bidder during the MRO Americas 2013 event in Atlanta, GA.  The money received will go towards the Aviation Student Scholarship Fund that they have set up.

You can check out this eco creation at their booth #1919.  Note that the bidding closes at 11am EST on 18 April, 2013.

Good luck in your bid.

Way to go, Tim.

Need an egg separator?

Can't find that gadget to remove the egg yolks from the whites when you need it? Don't get frustrated. And don't bother putting "egg separator" on your shopping list, ever.

 Just look around for an empty 500ml mineral water plastic bottle and watch this egg separation trick.

 

This could be a Guinness World of Records trick in the making.

 

Old cars? Bicycled!

"Bicycled"! No typo error here. That is a new word I picked up today because that is the way Lola Madrid named bikes made out of cars found at the junkyard. Teachers, take note, "bicycled" is now acceptable in and out of class.

Skip your way to power

While we can't fly up, up, up and away like Superman, there is a way for us to skip, skip, skip our way into power; battery power, that is.

Check out Kyung Guk Lee's "E-Rope", a skipping rope innovation that can work to fully recharge four batteries while you skip and burn off some fat.  20 minutes is all it takes to change the LED lights on the side of the skipping rope handle from red to blue to indicate that you have fully charge  the batteries.



Let's skip, skip, skip our way into power!

See $ in coconut shells?

What can one do with dehusked coconut shells in Asian countries, where the consumption of coconut flesh and its milk is high?

Iyan has an idea.  He processed them to sell.  Take a look at the end product.

Want to make a guess as to what Iyan's staff  are making out of the otherwise discarded husk?

Did you get it right?  These are COCONUT SHELL CHARCOAL!

Iyan is definitely creating abundance ($) from the abandoned by selling them as Coconut Cocolabrico!

What other green ventures is Iyan into?  I will let you know in the next posting.

Broken plastic toy? Print it!

The best toy you can buy your kids is a Filabot 3D Printer.  With it, your kids will be picking up plastics waste so that they can create their own toys.  Don't like what they created?  Never mind, put it back into the Filabot to recreate.  What a great way to explore their creativity.

And no more tears or complaints that a younger sibling has broken yet another favourite plastic toy.  Go print it out, kids.  How?

Let's see.