A tablemat made of plastic bottle covers safes the soil from pollution. Littering in any home is reduced and up cycling the plastic covers is fare better than burring them and safes the user the cost of buying more plastic mats that would be more waste in the near future. What you need: plastic bottle covers, plastic glue Making your table mat: they could be very beautiful Just get creative step1: glue the plastic covers in any desired design and color pattern adjacently and let it … Read more
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Flavoured Water Reduce waste and save the planet by making your own flavoured water
Getting rid of soda, juice, and bottled water by taking the time to learn how to make easy, low-cost, nutritious and refreshing flavoured water; by using any fresh fruit (Bananas excluded). Water is so important because our bodies constitute about 70% of it. Water plays a key role in transporting nutrients and oxygen to every cell in our bodies and it keeps every cell hydrated in order to keep our bodies fit. This process particularly affects the skin, as skin is the largest organ, thus when you … Read more
Palm Kernel Oil Alternatives which make use of local resources and save income
An appropriate counter measure which can greatly serve as an alternative to most of these cosmetics such as body lotion is Palm Kernel oil. It is the oil extracted from the nut of the palm plant and is yellow-white in colour. One of the good qualities of palm kernel oil is that because this oil solidifies at room temperature, it can be used to substitute numerous body lotions and can equally serve as cooking oil. In many rural communities of Cameroon (Bafut), it was customary in the past for … Read more
Upcycled Oil Candle
Aluminium cans waste is a free resource. Kids, women or even disabled people can create some decorative candles with them through upcycling. During a workshop we can discuss with the participants about the environmental and social problems caused by bauxite (aluminium) mining, industrial palm oil production and waste. To this effect, it can be used with (old cooking) vegetable oil thus showing that we care about nature. For a more potent effect, adding essential oil can also help against … Read more
Calabash Storage Culture
To ensure that food security is maintained and food sovereignty is ensured, it is necessary for communities and local farmers to improve their seed preserving methods. One such way is by making use of a long standing tradition in the Bafut community of Cameroon, where farmers use a Calabash to store seeds for future planting seasons. This method has proven very efficient, as historical records show that seeds preserved in calabashes could easily be stored for many years and were safe from … Read more
Baby Food Maize, Soy and Moringa baby food
These ingredients are largely available to a wide range of people in many regions of the world. A combination of cornmeal (ground dried maize), dried ground soy and moringa oleifera leaves provide a huge and cheap source of healthy baby food; Rich in nutrients of all the food groups. The nutritional benefits of Moringa oleifera are so elevated that the inclusion of its powdered leaves in infants’ food could combat malnutrition, ensure food and nutrition security. The organic cultivation and … Read more
Bottle Gardening
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
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
musical mud stomp festive earthen masonry's barefoot mud stomping
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
Food Forests Sustainable agriculture in the form of forestry
There are successful experiences around the world in designing agricultural systems as an imitation of natural eco-systems. The idea is simple yet elegant: by implementing ecological principles in agriculture, we can design a system that functions sustainably like a natural eco-system, and at the same time yields products that are useful for humans, like an agricultural system. Some main characteristics of a food forests are: * High level and a variety of production of food, fiber, animal … Read more
