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musical mud stomp festive earthen masonry's barefoot mud stomping

  • Date:
  • Region: CASA
  • Impact: Community
Dimensions of sustainability:
  • Social
  • Cultural
  • Holistic
  • Ecological
  • Economic

Dance and entertainment creates a building material. Live acoustic music fuels the barefoot mud stomping dance which creates a spectacle, connects people to earth and creates an unsurpassed building material. Read more

Bottle Gardening

  • Date:
  • Region: GEN Africa
  • Impact: Personal
Dimensions of sustainability:
  • Ecological

Take a bottle, cut horizontally and fill it with compost. Nurse vegetable seeds and place the bottle on roof tops, indoor, window frames, walls, etc. Read more

Bottle Drip Irrigation System

  • Date:
  • Region: GEN Africa
Dimensions of sustainability:
  • Ecological

Plastic bottles can be used for drip irrigation whereby, a small hole is created on the bottle lid, small enough to let water drop. This bottle filled with water is now turned upside down allowing the water to drop directly on the plant. Read more

How to Eat Local Ideas for fostering an 'all-local' diet and supporting local economy

  • Date:
  • Regions: GEN Africa, GENNA, GENOA
Dimensions of sustainability:
  • Cultural
  • Ecological
  • Economic

'Organic' is just a label Some fruit & veggies can be labeled 'organic', yet still grown in conventional, monocultural methods with certain amounts of spraying. Some processed foods can be labeled 'organic' yet still contain lots of sugar, margarine or other harmful ingredients. In this article we stress the importance of eating local and becoming aware of where food comes from. So Why local? * More sustainable - eating local reduces our carbon footprint - less energy is wasted on … Read more

Foraging Wild Edible Plants There is great food under our noses...

  • Date:
  • Regions: GEN Africa, GENNA, GENOA
Dimensions of sustainability:
  • Ecological

Traditionally, in every place around the globe, people knew the local wild edible plants and their various uses. This knowledge was derived from traditions, which were formed in a constant process of trial and error, and were passed on meticulously from generation to generation. We can choose to re-learn this tradition, get to know and forage our local wild edible plants! Foraging ads diversity to our diet, is highly nutritional and accessible and is a source for food which is 100% local. … Read more

Build your own house with £150 Build your own house with 150 £

  • Date:
  • Region: GEN Europe
Dimensions of sustainability:
  • Ecological

This Oxfordshire farmer has built an eco-house in his garden, using only natural materials for £150. The 'cob house' was built using only earth, clay and straw. The inside was mainly built using materials from a rubbish skip. Read more

Composting Toilet Toilet with internal composting container

  • Date:
  • Regions: GEN Africa, GENNA, GENOA
Dimensions of sustainability:
  • Ecological

A composting toilet is a simple, watersaving and logical alternative to the water closet we know. No need for a water supply, no sewers and no sewage treatment necessary. For me it's even a very practical way to become a part again in the ecological live-cycle of soil-plant-food-digestion-soil. The instructions provided in the instructables link is for a composting toilet with internal composting container. Another solution would be to construct a simpe box with a hole and a lid with a … Read more

Greenhouse of the Future Grow Food and Create Space to Relax

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Dimensions of sustainability:
  • Ecological

Interested in building your own greenhouse, but don’t know where to begin? Now, there’s the Greenhouse of the Future. Filmmaker Curt Close teamed up with Anaconda Productions and the non-profit SolutionEra to release a DVD, eBook and step-by-step guide on how to build a passive solar greenhouse that utilizes renewable energy and is built from natural and recycled materials. Follow the link for more information:- Read more

Culticycle Pedal Powered Tractor

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Dimensions of sustainability:
  • Ecological

A Culticycle is a pedal powered tractor for cultivation and seeding, built from lawn tractor, ATV, and bicycle parts. With a speed of 3 - 4 mph, depending on choice of gearing and pedaling speed, it keeps the operator fit, minimises soil compaction, uses no fuel, is far cheaper than a tractor and is easily adaptable to specific needs. As a low tech machine it can be built and maintained using basic resources and skills. Read more

Africa’s Great Green Wall A 7000km Wall of Trees Reverses Desertification

  • Date:
  • Region: GEN Africa
Dimensions of sustainability:
  • Ecological

The Great Green Wall of the Sahara and the Sahel Initiative is a planned project to plant a wall of trees across Africa at the southern edge of the Sahara desert as a means to prevent desertification. It was developed by the African Union to address the detrimental social, economic and environmental impacts of land degradation and desertification in the Sahel and the Sahara. Crossing 11 nations this is a political as well as a physical and economic challenge and progress currently varies from … Read more