Archive for September, 2011

Helping villagers collect water using fog

Omg! When I saw this video, I immediately thought that it was a fabulous idea.

Previously, I had a helper from an improvised Indonesian state. Nancy used to walk for half a day to collect water from a river to bring home as drinking water. She’s gone back now, but if she saw this, I bet she would be very impressed with this very basic but highly useful tool.

Read about other environmentally friendly techniques

Pearl Corn

Dutch oven outdoors

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Commercial baby wipes aren’t exactly good for babies

Recently, New New Zealand parents were up in arms over the fact that certain baby wipes sold at the stores had banned preservatives called iodopropynyl butylcarbamate (IPBC). in it.  What’s worse is that parents who want a refund has gotta dig for the purchase receipt.

Heck, if it was me, I’d bring that packet empty or not and just demand a refund.

A better way could be just to bring clean, unused rags, wet that and use it on kids. Or just use some clean face twels.

Alternatively, you can make your own baby wipes as shown below. It’s dead simple.

Asians typically do not use baby wipes cause you know, it’s expensive, and can I say, not so environmentally friendly. They just wash the kid with soap and water. And yes, it’s cold water, not warm water.

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Toilet bowls as seats at a restaurant

I’m all for unusual marketing concepts for restaurants but  seriously who wants to eat in a restaurant that has toilet seats instead of chairs? Show of hands please?

This restaurant is at one of the higher floors of the Queensbay Mall in Penang, Malaysia.

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Coke bottles made into solar lights

I just saw this awesome video of how empty plastic bottles are converted into solar powered light bulbs.

It’s a pretty awesome concept.

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