This Awesome Urn Will Turn You into a Tree After You Die | Design for Good. You don't find many designers working in the funeral business thinking about more creative ways for you to leave this world (and maybe they should be). However, the product designer Gerard Moline has combined the romantic notion of life after death with an eco solution to the dirty business of the actual, you know, transition. His Bios Urn is a biodegradable urn made from coconut shell, compacted peat and cellulose and inside it contains the seed of a tree. Once your remains have been placed into the urn, it can be planted and then the seed germinates and begins to grow.
You even have the choice to pick the type of plant you would like to become, depending on what kind of planting space you prefer. I, personally, would much rather leave behind a tree than a tombstone. 50 Ways to Never Waste Food Again - Planet Green. 7 Foods So Unsafe Even Farmers Won't Eat Them. Seasonal fruit and vegetable calendar | Eat Seasonably. One Part Sunshine - Your Guide for Growing Green Kids. 66 Things You Can Grow At Home: In Containers, Without a Garden - Planet Green. Vision Magazine Culture Coffee Grounds: Don't Throw them away! Reuse them! Coffee Grounds: Don't Throw them away! Reuse them! By Casey Nicholson of www.howtodothings.com According to CBS News, “More than 50 percent of Americans drink coffee everyday — three to four cups each, more than 330 million cups a day and counting.”
If you are reading this article, you most likely fall within that 50 percent. Now that all the coffee is accounted for, what about those leftover grounds? They often sit until the next morning in the coffee maker, and then it’s off to the trash with them! What if... just what if you took those coffee grounds and made use of them? In this day and age, recycling is undeniably important! Keep the kitchen drains smelling fresh — Do you ever walk through your kitchen and smell a foul odor, only to discover that it is emanating from your drain?
Dye—Dyeing objects may not be your frequent pastime, but when it needs to be done, it’s nice to know there is an easy solution. Cleaner—We all have hard-to-clean objects. So how does this work? 50 Ways to Help the Planet. PLANT A NOTION "Going green" doesn't have to be a daunting task that means sweeping life changes. Simple things can make a difference. The contents of this list might not be new, but they bear repeating. Sometimes it takes a few reminders for things take root. 1. CHANGE YOUR LIGHT If every household in the United State replaced one regular lightbulb with one of those new compact fluorescent bulbs, the pollution reduction would be equivalent to removing one million cars from the road. Don't like the color of light? 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. Your favorite t-shirt will last longer too. 8. 9.
Only launder when you have a full load. 10. 11. 12. 13. More ideas: HGTV, Martha, DIY Network 14. 15. 16. 17. 18. 19. Make it meaningful for the whole family and plant a tree every year for each member. 20. 21. 22. 23. 24. 25. 26. 27. 28. 29. 30. 31. 32. Every ton of glass recycled saves the equivalent of nine gallons of fuel oil needed to make glass from virgin materials. 33. 34. 35. 36. 37. 38. 39. 40. 41. 42. 43.
Local Harvest / Farmers Markets / Family Farms / CSA / Organic Food.