CLEAN OCEANS

SEABIN PROJECT

Two sea lovers guys launched an amazing project to clean oceans: a bin that swallows water, catching everything floatting in it. Platic bottles, paper, oils, detergents, ffuel... everything we can find in the sea when we want to go for a swim that has nothing to do here.

It works very simply, 24 hours a day, 7 days a week and 365 days a year.

You can follow them HERE.

They quit their jobs to invest all of their time and money in this project, to make it grow everyday, and develop it worldwide.
To do so, they need our help, and we can invest any amount of money in their project on this page RIGHT HERE and discover more about them and the whole project.

A great opportunity to contribute to change and to start acting for our planet and preserve its wealth !

UNICEF

The new Lego brick

Today I want to introduce you something I recently discovered: the UNICEF bricks.

Apparently, the Psychic Factory agency imagined it: a brick like the ones we had when we were playing Lego® as kids, that would be able to bring water and food in two compartments and that could also be piled up to build houses.

UNICEF and Lego announced their partnership (for 3 years) in March 2015 to promote and help children's rights and development through worldwide countries.

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This inspiring collaboration lead to this brick but this one is going to be helpful not to children but to families.

Once food and water have been consumed, sand and soil can replace them in the two empty compartments, this way it gives them weight and help to pile them up.

The aim is to efficiently help populations victims of poverty and/or provide them temporary shelters from disasters (natural, industrial...). 

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Plus, those bricks are made in a reusable material so they can help some other people, somewhere else.

Our old playing habits are finally paying off !!

Find our more or make a donation HERE !

BAIN

In the mood for "la bainiade"...

When Unilever is one of the worldwide leaders integrating sustainability into its business strategy, some people are also trying to do something, bringing a small - but nonethless very useful - contribution to the environment, for nature and our lives.

Today, among those "people", I'd like to introduce you a French brand (yes, again !) that's celebrating its 1 year this summer: BAIN.

It's a swimsuit brand created by Cindy and Nicolas, two friends from the oh-so-cool-town of Biarritz, on the west coast of France. Surfers and nature lovers are what describes best the people living there.

Cindy and Nicolas didn't find what they were looking for on the actual market in terms of comfort, style and ethics. That's why they created BAIN.

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BAIN is for nature lovers: they are locally designed and made with techniques and materials respecting the environment. Materials (from France, Italy and Spain) are made of recycled plastics and fishing nets found in the sea, excluding toxic substances for health or the environment.

Collections are certified by Oeko-Tex® to guarantee the absence of nocive substances in clothes.

Copyright Bain

Bain's swimsuits (for women and men) are colored, mostly with pretty soft colors, plain or printed for a fashionable look, simple but chic, with a pinch of retro style. The definition of "design" : comfort, usefulness and style.

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However, it's very hard for brand designers to find the right materials and techniques, the right colors, to create a sustainable, eco-friendly and/or organic product. Fewer researches are made into those fields, it's something that takes a lot of time to grow.

That's because we are drowned by worldwide brands with worldwide production techniques, and even though people would like to buy consciously to care more about them and about the environment, they cannot always afford this kind of products. It's once again a matter of quality over quantity. It's the same problem with food.

I guess we should buy less, and learn how to deal with it; buy 1 local and ecofriendly swimsuit instead of 3 of a worldwide brand...

Anyway, brands like BAIN really need our support to last in time and diversify their ranges of products, so feel free to discover them online: here and there.

ELLIOT FOR WATER

Today I'm introducing an original and oh-so-useful concept...

ELLIOT FOR WATER

Elliot For Water is "the first search engine that gives the possibility to its users to help the people in need of drinkable water". 

Its aim is clearly to make our web wanderings/researches U S E F U L.

When I heard about this project I instantly thought "Oh my god, why nobody did it earlier, that's fucking awesome !!". And I installed it on my computer.

We're living in such a way we forget that what we drink, what allows us to cook, to shower/wash our hands/teeth, to pee (and more), to laundry and so on, is something precious and invaluable.

- Copyright The Endorphin Company -

Every year 2,6 million people die because they do not have access to clean water, which is more than 7 thousand people everyday. Half of these victims are less than 15 years old. 

They all die because of water-related diseases.
A study made by "Solidarités International" NGO states that 3,5 billion people drink unsafe water everyday and 1 billion people do not have any toilet. Around 272 million days of school per year are missed (especially by young girls having periods) because of the lack of infrastructures allowing them to go to the bathroom, and it seriously impacts on their education.

In our daily life we tend to forget all the issues that result from unsafe water and lack of water infrastructures, but it goes from health to education.

That's why Elliot For Water is here. To remind us that we can act, even just from behind our screen when we are surfing the Internet.

"Elliot For Water donates 70% of its profits to buy Solwa Technologies*, solar energy based products that purify dirty or polluted water through desalination, the irrigation of arid grounds, and the dehydration of food. [They] will also take care of the primary necessities of the villages in which this technology will be implemented."

*an Italian company working with solar energy

To learn more about this wonderful search engine, help it to grow and start saving lives, let's go to their page, and install it.

It's one thing to realize our planet and people living on it are in trouble, It's another to act consciously and sustainably for it.

Elliot For Water is therefore a great opportunity for everyone of us. Let's start acting !