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The Ocean Clean Up final time

The Ocean Clean Up is my favorite project. I think it has a huge impact on our environment and living conditions. Why do I blog about this again? Because the target of $2m has not been achieved yet. The funding is 31 more days and need $647.000 to succeed. So let’s do this!

The funding can be found here: https://fund.theoceancleanup.com/

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The Ocean Clean up becomes reality

In June 2013 I wrote about a young student from Delft (NL) and his idea to clean  the big plastic garbage patches in the Ocean. Now this whole project starts to shape and becomes real. A crowd-funded clean up mission starts and we all can help very easy!

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The green towers in Milan – The vertical Forest (Bosco Verticale)

A vertical forest in the city with trees growing? Sounds weird! But an Italian architect made it possible. Two residential towers have been built in the Milan, Italy. The idea to create a sustainable project in the metropolitan area in Milan is a good step towards a greener city! 

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Slam Shell 2013 – Shell’s greenwashing event fails

In December 2013 Shell invited people and the press to show that their company is not as bad as we think. They are of course an environmentally friendly company and never spill oil. Every year 100.000 tons of oil are leaking into the oceans and destroying the habitats of humans and animal-life. Furthermore Shell plans to drill for oil and gas in the Arctic which is a huge misery in my opinion. So they need to get stopped. Two activists of project »Slam Shell« showed how.

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Project Link – Google connects Kampala (Uganda)

In June Google worked on the Loons Project in New Zealand to connect more people to the internet. The fact that still 61% worldwide don’t have access to the internet made Google move to a new country. Uganda!

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Leather and meat without killing animals

Leather and meat without killing animals sounds great for me! But how is that possible and what are the advantages and disadvantages? Andras Forgacs comes up with a solution which is not only realizable and has a lot of advantages. It is already working!

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»Love in Action« Ethio Skate project

Extreme sports are one of the best ways to get young people of the street. Especially skateboarding is a very popular and easy to setup sport. Israel Dejene is the founder of a cool skateboard project from Ethiopia which you should see!

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Sustainability in your daily routine

If you think about your daily routines and what you are doing everyday I’m sure you will find somethings you can improve easily to make your day a bit more sustainable without limit yourself. Find some ideas here.

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Underwater sculptures encourage corals to grow

Over the years approximately 40% of natures coral reefs got destroyed or got lost in the last few decades. To grow new coral reefs the Cancun based Jason deCaires Taylor created sculptures and sink them at different spots in the ocean.

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Bananas are the new plastic

Normally petroleum is used to produce plastic. But Elif Bilgin invented a new method using bananas to produce Bio-Plastic. The future is banana