Category Archives: Green Initiatives

$9 recyclable cardboard bicycle can withstand water and humidity

“It’s strong, it’s durable, it’s cheap and what I like about it the most that it’s made of cardboard!” These are the words of Israeli entrepreneur Izhar Gafni who has successfully made a prototype of a bicycle that has been entirely built from cardboard. The

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Recycled fashion: Party dress crafted out of used cartons

The modern mantra of sustainability is reduce, reuse and recycle. While most of the eco-friendly products and measures concentrate on the reduction in consumption of natural resources, both recycling and reuse are often left behind. In the modern world governed by urban consumerism, it is

How to make an ecofriendly DIY Mushroom Stool for your garden

A DIY Mushroom stool from Toadstools is one of the simplest DIYs, but is highly charming, especially for the kids for they’ll give them a real super Mario world around them. Maureen is a loving mother living with her two girls out in Ottawa Valley