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The Cutest Hand-Cranked Washing Machine

Wonder Wash from The Laundry Alternative.

Laundry day no longer fills me with dread as it used to. We live in a small apartment with no washing machine and I used to have to go to the local laundromat whenever it was time to do laundry. I am extremely hypersensitive to chemicals and a day at the laundromat would mean a migraine and pure agony for me from all of the bleach and other chemical laundry detergents used by everyone else doing their laundry. It was especially painful if I had to go on a rainy or cold day when all of the doors and windows were tightly closed and I had no chance of getting a breath of fresh air to get me through the experience. I finally got fed up with the whole experience and did a search online for apartment-sized washing machines only to find prices out of control and no second hand alternatives available.

Guerrilla Gardening Beirut

Guerrilla Gardening Beirut

by TheGuerrillaGardener Whilst on honeymoon Richard and Lyla Reynolds are inspired by the potty streets of Beirut to do a little guerrilla gardening. It also includes a flash back to Libya. Check out http://www.guerrillagardening.org and http://www.pimpyourpavement.com ...

Seedstock – Currency for a more connected, sustainable and happier future

Seedstock – Currency for a more connected, sustainable and happier future

Dear allies for a more connected, sustainable and happier future, It may not quite feel like it at the moment, but summer is inching closer by the day, and so too is the day when Vancouver will have it's first community currency at last! The Seedstock team has been hard at work over the last ...

We Disconnect From Each Other Because Of EMF Pollution

We Disconnect From Each Other Because Of EMF Pollution

Toxic EMF pollution causes our cells to scramble and interferes with our mirror neurons and our ability to empathise with each other. Some people, like sensitive empaths, are more affected by this phenomenon, they aren't crazy, they are our canaries in the coal mine. Click on image for an articl ...

Muffin Exchange – Changing the World One Muffin at a Time

Muffin Exchange – Changing the World One Muffin at a Time

A short film about a pay-it-forward gift exchange muffin man who bicycles around Madison, WI, giving people muffins only in exchange for asking them to do something to better the world off his top 10 list. ...

Bruce Lipton – The Evolution of the Butterfly

Bruce Lipton – The Evolution of the Butterfly

Reposted from www.occupy.com "The Evolution of the Butterfly," a four-minute short by filmmaker Abraham Heisler, features the renowned cellular biologist Dr. Bruce Lipton narrating the process of a caterpillar transforming into a butterfly over footage Heisler shot of the early stages of Occu ...

SeedStock – Vancouver’s Community Currency

SeedStock – Vancouver’s Community Currency

Seedstock Seedbomb! from agorabora on Vimeo. Seedstock, is a community currency for Vancouver and the Lower Mainland. We believe that community currencies can improve the connectedness of communities, support local, independent businesses, encourage a more vibrant and diverse local economy while ge ...

Make Your Own Foot Sensation Trail!

Make Your Own Foot Sensation Trail!

Too cool! Easy to make and great for your feet. Foot sensation trails--the first time I came across anything like this was when I was living in Malaysia and they had a very cool path with varying sizes of stones along it. The point of the path was to be a reflexology stimulation to the soles of ...

Rethink the Concept of Banks and Currencies

Rethink the Concept of Banks and Currencies

There is a growing movement in North America towards public banking and debt free money, spearheaded by Ellen Brown and Bill Still. We have posted several articles and videos on this topic here. Vancouver has it's own project to develop a community currency called SeedStock --you can get involve ...

A lesson in banking practices from young Victoria Grant

A lesson in banking practices from young Victoria Grant

Victoria Grant is a 12-year-old Canadian. Her father and she discovered that the debt money system was what was wrong with the Canadian economy and decided to do something about it. She recites this from memory at the First Annual Public Banking Conference in Philadelphia, April 27-28, 2012. ...