Casa e Cose

Oh this new collection from Mini Rodini is just so cute and so cool! 80% of the collection is made out of Organic Cotton, the prints are super fun and you can buy via their web page. I am buying more and more organic for me and my son and the quality is just superior! And it feels good and you know its good too. So hurray for those who makes my life easier!

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…how about you? Plastic Promise suggested to me from excellent blogger Julie.

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Just look at these loverly icetea tins from HARNEY & SONS…so nice, fresh and vintage looking. So i just bought all of the 4 organic flavours availible: Organic Peach Black Tea; Organic Plain Black Tea; Organic Green Tea; Decaffeinated Passion Fruit Black Tea.

at Henry Road – a loverly online shop from California.

Mira estos meravillosos recipeientes de icetea de HARNEY & SONS…tienen un look fresco y en el mismo vintage. Yo ya he comprado los 4 gustos: Organic Peach Black Tea; Organic Plain Black Tea; Organic Green Tea; Decaffeinated Passion Fruit Black Tea.

a Henry Road – una tienda Californiana on-line muy pintoresca

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Daryl Hannah back in the days of SPLASH. And maybe thanks to that wonderfull mermaid she can now get more attention for her bigger project and most important of them all: please read below.

DJ love life project is ecological living promoter Daryl Hannahs project and with that her quest for a better world. I just think she is amazing. Such a fierce strong humble  women. She is fighting the good fight and I hope she can convince many a likes to join the cause. He web site is full of information: global news, community work, food alerts, good car fuel infos ( she actually licks the lid of her carfuel engine tank thing in a sequence of the video – thats how clean it is! ) videos from native american mother earth marches to wild horses and swap-o-rama clothing project plus a shop  where you can buy loads of good goodies. Do go visit and become inspired.

Below:super stylish sustainble bamboo snowboard, deliscious worm poop plant food, bio diesel pump for your ecological running car, flip-flop baskets made with leftovers from the flip flop factories, the original soap nuts for dirty laundry.

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I’m working on it: I would say that approximately 65% of our cleaning products for the home is ecological. Not good enough but ok. Just a year ago it was almost down to zero so there is hope!

Make a commitment you too!

Ecological products from FROGGY, ECOVER and KH-7.

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If I was a surfer, which i’m not, but if I was I would defenatly try to get my hands on one of these almost 100% ecological surfboards from  KUN-TIQI.

They are beautifull and that is why I put in a post about surf boards. Well there is a slight image of mr Slater and his friends that keeps coming back in my head….

hmmm….anyways maybe this was how the boards were made back in the first days of surf. All natural material:

- Balsa is the ligh- test wood of all and was already used as a transport float in South America 1000 years before the Inka Empire. This plant is one of the fastest growing species, reaching a height of up to 10 meter and a diameter of 20-25 cm within 3-4 years. Balsa wood is a fast growing, sustainable and recyclable raw material, producing no toxic substances.

-The lineseed oil resin, which characterizes 98 % of our resin, is a sustainable raw material, which is neither toxic nor carci- nogen and furthermore, comes out of renewable recources.

- The surface is laminated with fibreglass made of silica sand. Since Balsa wood is hard and almost unbreakable, only little quantities of fibreglass are needed.  Unfortunately the production still requires some fossil energy, but Kun_tiqi is trying hard to improve this process to reduce any negative effect on the environment.

As the Kun-tiqi fellas say: they are surfriders who care. And I think we all should.

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Ok… so I really really want a wooden floor in my apartment.

Currently we have this stone ( ? ) in pinkish and its freezing not to mention fairly ugly.  But here is the deal – wooden floors, any wooden floor means usually cutting down trees and we do not want that only to please my sore eyes so…. what can I then do if I want a nice wooden floor?

Well I can use cork! Check out this web page of the company WICANDERS and the huge range of colours availble! Could well serve even the most selective of us all.

And the best is that we get design with clear concious. No bad feelings or guilt at all.

And the best is that we get design with clear concious. No bad feelings or guilt at all.

Basically the reason is as per below discription form wicanders web:

The tree has a life span of 250-350 years. Each cork tree must be 20 to 25 years old before it can provide its first harvest of cork bark. This cork is known as virgin and has a hard and irregular structure. After the virgin cork has been stripped, a new layer of cork begins to grow.

A typical tree produces several hundred kilograms of cork at each harvesting and will survive for many generations. The bark is stripped off the tree in sections by highly skilled men using special axes, a traditional manual skill that dates back many hundreds of years.

Cork is harvested on a sustainable basis and the stripping of the bark does not harm the tree in any way. The bark grows back completely, taking on a smoother texture after each harvest. A cork oak tree can be safely harvested up to 20 times during its life cycle, making cork a truly inexhaustible natural resource.

New plantations of cork oak trees are planted each year to ensure the level of cork production is maintained. Cork oak trees cannot be felled or removed without government authorization, which is rarely granted.

In a context of increasing concern for the environment, cork remains the only tree whose bark can regenerate itself after each harvest – leaving the tree unharmed.

So at least Im gonna check out the nearest stockist and see if I finally can get my wooden floor in almost black cork!

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VEJA as the brand puts it on their website:

Veja has been built on 3 main principles:
1. Using ecological inputs
2. Using fair trade cotton and latex
3. Respecting workers’ dignity

Veja has created a  global chain that emphasizes solidarity and environment from the small producers in Brazil to the public.

Please visit their website or a store near you. Walk gently on our earth  but do it  with style! We just love these sneakers and now they have them in kids sizes too!

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