the Junk Jaswanti-hibiscus from Junk

a flower made from -scrap of PET bottle

the PET peacock

Peacock made of a PET water bottle and a small plastic paint bottle

"green" caterpiller

A cater piller wall hanging made of PET bottle

PET broom

A nice recycling Idea 

- courtesy -the junk wave.com

green crafts-making bead necklaces!!

ingredients:

• 1/2 cup flour
• 1/2 cup cornstarch
• 1/2 cup salt
• hot water

Combine the flour, cornstarch, and salt. Mix a little bit of tempera paint powder into the hot water, table spoon of olive oil and add it a little bit at a time to the dry mix, until it forms a sticky dough. The consistency should be similar to clay.


Roll the dough into small balls (these will be your beads) and poke a hole into each one with a pencil, knitting needle, ortoothpick. Make sure to make the hole is big enough for yarn or string to pass through.

When the clay is dry, it’s ready for beading. Cut a piece of yarn into the appropriate length for your child’snecklace or bracelet, wrap a piece of masking tape around one end to make stringing easier, knot the other end, and set them to work!

Courtesy : wiki How

earth day Gyaan

Some Ten Points for Better Life:

1. where ever required try to keep the AC temperature at comfort levels ie @23 C.the decrease in the temp will increase the power consumption and CO2 levels too.

2. Switch to a laptop instead of using a desktop computer and cut three-quarters off your electrical use. Turn off the laptop at the end of the day.

3. Turn off the lights when you aren’t using them and try to utilise the natural light whenever where ever. Stop using heat-producing halogen lamps they are in high power consumption as well heat generating.

4. Switch to cold water washing and save 80 percent on energy used for laundry and save an estimated $60 a year. Hang dry your clothes instead of using the dryer and save 700 pounds of C02 a year.

5. plug out or switch off the accessories or any thing works on electricity when not required,it saves energy as well lives. 

6. Switch to compact fluorescent from regular incandescent bulbs and use 60 percent less energy per bulb and save 300 pounds of C02 a year.

7. Keep a hand towel or a kerchief  to reduce the paper napkin usage

8.keep the hot water pipes through insulated media and get a water heater with good insulation

9. Use public transportation whenever possible, carpool, shop locally, and ideally switch to a hybrid or energy-efficient car 

10. Keep your tires inflated to improve  mileage by 3 percent. Every fuel you save also saves C02 emissions.

Courtesy: green websites / inspiring gurus :) 
 

Isang Litrong Liwanag,

Not to worry ...about the pronunciation... 
Millions of Filipinos taking their name every " Day" for the invention...the revolution called  Isang Litrong Liwanag (A Liter of Light). 
Kudos to students from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT).  Based on  simple physics  utilised in the project these students lit a light in to so many slum lives with the help of Mr.Illac Diaz of My shelter foundation. 
The students found that a one liter plastic bottle filled with bleach water and installed on top of a metal roof is a surprisingly simple way to light homes that have neither electrical connectivity nor natural lighting. 
The plastic defracts light and pushes it to every corner of a small slum house instead of beaming it onto one area like a typical lamp might.  
From this innovation inspired and a team of IIT-Bombay students working on Govandi slums now.  here some inspiration...

How to make a SolarBulb:

Demo Video:

Credits and thanks  to MIT , project "Isang Litrong Liwanag" and  Mr.Illac Diaz...