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Transition towns
The Transition towns is a network that support and train those comunity that follow the transition model.
They work on rebuilding the resilience and reducing the co2 emissions.
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The plastic bottle light
Here there is a simple solution to get your garage brighter without using any electric energy. Don’t waste your plastic bottle, they can easily be used as lights bulbs. This idea is spreading all over the world.
If you have a garage or any place in need of electric light during the day, replace all your electric bulbs with this easy and economic solution.
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Home made yogurt
Did you know that one yogurt comes to travel up to 9,000 km before arriving on our tables? Have you never thought that home made yogurt can reduce CO2 emissions and packaging waste generation?
This video shows all the steps to begin to produce yogurt at home.
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Home made liquid dish soap
Home made dish soap, contributes to the reduce CO2 in the atmosphere, it reduces water pollution, and you don’t get in contact with toxic products.
In video it’s explained how to produce the dish soap at home.
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Home made toothpaste
Another example of how to implement the degrowth. With natural ingredients you can get the same results of toothpast sold in stores.
The video is in Italian but it’s easily understandable.
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Frying oil as diesel engine’s fuel
In the video by the Make magazine is shown how to make an homemade biodiesel from vegetable oil.
Even if it’s not the energy crisis solution, this fuel actually reduce the air contamination and can be used in many diesel motor without big modification.
All the process is explained step by step.
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The story of bottled water
Another nice work by Annie Leonard. This video highlighted the problems caused by the mineral water market.
Explains the strategies used by large industries to induce to buy or drink bottled water, which costs two thousand times more than tap water.
Small things lead to big changes, avoid buying or drinking bottled water.
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Home made laundry soap
Self-producing laundry soap at home reduces the emissions of CO2, decrease de use of plastic and is cheaper than buying it. This video explains the process to begin to make laundry soap at home. There are not soaps that do not pollutes. You can start reducing your ecological footprint today by making your own soap.
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