Here you can see latests posts from Sustainable Ideas Facebook group. This group is for the development and sharing of sustainable ideas, ecology, innovation, biomimicry, recycling and repurposing, collective consciousness and community. Everyone is welcome to join and share the ideas you think are worth spreading to make a change in our lifestyles, ways of thinking, our relationship with nature.
We co-created this group together with my friend Rūta Žinienė, who is actively engaged in researching and sharing ideas on various topics along the lines of sustainable development.
Visit her page for Peaceful activism – Blue Messages.
"Whether the change comes from individuals or the institutions that create decisions that govern us all, the environmental movement has broad reaching implications that are only picking up steam. It is important to know the history of the movement, not only for education and inspiration, but to know that anything that is done to move the world towards sustainability is a part of a long line of activism that has the potential to bring the planet back from the brink of environmental disaster."
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It all began with the industrial revolution. As factories began popping up in the late 1800s, they left a noticeable imprint on the land...
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The most amazing idea for a more sustainable and healthier life I know so far are these aeroponic towers😍![]()
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Clothes that photosynthesise!
Inside the London lab making climate-action clothes
www.ft.com
Out on fashion’s eco-frontier, scientists have developed clothes that photosynthesise
Author Kim Stanley Robinson has proposed a system of Carbon Quantitative Easing, otherwise known as printing money to fund decarbonization efforts.![]()
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“What might this look like in practice? All around the world, anyone from individuals to nations would be paid to sequester carbon in the ground for an agreed-upon time.![]()
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Once certified, a carbon coin would be paid out. These coins would trade on currency-exchange markets, and the central banks would set a floor value, perhaps by issuing long-term bonds for investors. With the proper arrangement, the value of the carbon coin could be defended, and everyone on Earth could then be paid for doing good work for the biosphere and the generations to come.![]()
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A petro-state such as Venezuela or Saudi Arabia or Russia or the U.S. could declare it was going to sequester its fossil fuels, leaving proven reserves in the ground and getting paid in carbon coins instead. These payments could be made on a timetable matched to how quickly the countries would have extracted and sold the fuels.![]()
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Cities could change infrastructures and get paid. Mass-transit projects, electric car recharging stations, infill construction, city agriculture, de-suburbanization efforts, clean power generation — anything that kept carbon in the ground would earn carbon coins.![]()
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Individuals could do what individuals do: some could start kelp beds, if they live by the right kinds of coasts; some change their farms to no-till agriculture, and compensate for the smaller yields by getting paid for growing soil itself; others can winnow down cattle herds; or create a peat bog; or swap out any carbon-burning machine for a cleaner one.![]()
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The opportunities would be endless. People could devote their working lives to decarbonization and make a living at that, and the biosphere that is our only home would be better for it.”
Think BTC is a Dirty Business? Consider the Carbon Cost of a Dollar
climatemoney.substack.com
A long post exploring Petrodollars and the carbon math of USD.
Quite disturbing.. Meat industry is a good example of how damaging an industry can be for the whole ecosystem, from ecological damage to animal, including human, welfare. And it just one of the examples of the conditions people are facing working in big unsustainable industries, where a human being is just a part of the machinery.
Meatpacking: Last Week Tonight with John Oliver (HBO)
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The pandemic has thrown into high relief some of the longstanding issues surrounding working conditions in meatpacking facilities. John Oliver explains why g...
"We can act to curb the demand for escapist mass tourism and give control over historical and natural sites back to the communities they belong to."
It is time to end extractive tourism
www.aljazeera.com
The pandemic presents us with a great opportunity to do away with the destructive mass tourism industry.
"[...] there’s less of a fixation about what happened yesterday and more on what makes sense for today and tomorrow,”![]()
How China Could Change the World By Taking Meat Off the Menu
time.com
China is on the cusp of a plant-based protein revolution
Join the Sustainability & Problem solving | Futurepreneurs workshop! What "sustainability" really means? Can a sustainable business be profitable? How to turn a problem into a business opportunity? 🤔 These and other questions will be answered during this workshop. 💼![]()
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Maybe we could finally create more sustainable electric cars and stop using lithium, nickel and cobalt for the production of batteries. Seems like hemp here is coming as an alternative. This plant is such a great resource, from clothes to food, from medicine to energy.
Hemp Batteries are Eight Times More Powerful than Lithium, Scientists Discover
returntonow.net
Waste fibers from hemp crops out-perform graphene for a thousandth of the cost, according to new research Is there anything hemp can’t do? A year after hemp became legal to grow in the United States...
Inspiration of the day - Maki Ohkojima: ![]()
Exploring Nature and our relationship with it this artist goes outside the canvas and onto the walls, creating impressive large scale murals.
Inspiration of the day - land artist Richard Shilling:![]()
"You use ephemeral materials and put all your focus and effort into creating something that reaches its zenith in only a short moment before beginning to degrade and returning back to nature from where it came. I absolutely love that. All that effort to see that magical moment before you simply just leave it behind. There is no way you can possess or own that moment beyond that time so you have to simply leave it and let it go and that is very liberating indeed and an allegory for the transience of our existence."
Interview: Ephemeral Land Art by a Man Who Discovered His Creativity in Nature
mymodernmet.com
“I was always (and still am) happiest when amongst nature... Nature art is simply just one way of expressing the joy of feeling at one with the environment.”
Inspiration of the day - artist Lucienne Rickard: ![]()
"Lucienne draws an intricate and laboured image every day of a recently extinct plant or animals species. Her beautiful and time consuming work is then erased the following day ahead of a new drawing beginning in the imprint of those that came before. This process of drawing and erasure, or evolution and extinction, is repeated in full knowledge that the paper will deteriorate and eraser shavings will accumulate."![]()
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