#sustainability projects

[beingjellybeans]

Young Filipino Innovators Shine at Swiss Innovation Prize 2024

The Swiss Innovation Prize 2024 recognized the ingenuity of Filipino innovators, awarding top honors to groundbreaking projects in sustainability, digitalization, and prosperity. The grand ceremony, held on November 21, 2024, at Azalea Hall, Somerset Central, Makati City, highlighted transformative solutions selected from over 160 entries submitted by young scholars, entrepreneurs, and…

[the-bramble--patch]

I love you tailors, I love you recycling center employees, I love you jewelry repair people, I love you tech repair people. I love you plumbers, I love you electricians. I love you all maintenance workers, who make it so things don't have to be fully replaced when they break.

There are so many ways to contribute to the climate movement.

[miamaimania]

Field to Fabric: Takahiro Hasegawa's Ode to Linen in 'One Field, One T-shirt'

[thehaberdasheress]

Visible mending made easy: fall edition

New to sewing? Want to learn embroidery? I've got some beautiful stick-and-stitch patches that make it easy as pie. And right now, that pie is pumpkin.

When you're done stitching over the pattern, you just put it in water and wash the patch away.

Get cozy. Get spooky. Get thee to my Etsy shop.

[smile-files]

a blackhole of happiness, greedy for the light it cannot give back

[thackeroy]

This project...oh boy this project. So. I hate the yarn I used, it was an odd cotton yarn and my fingers did NOT like the texture of it, it almost felt like knitting with cotton wool which I also do not enjoy the texture of and makes me want to crawl out of my skin suit. But, despite my obvious dislike of touching this yarn, I do love this project because of what it is.

I did not make this as a wearable scarf, my point in making this was more as a teaching tool, as a physical and visible example of climate change. Every four rows, (every two garter bumps?) is representative of one year. The colours, starting with the blue, represent the average global temperature starting from 1922 all the way to 2021.

[jasperthehatchet]

Hello hi greetings a few people have asked me how i make plastic bottle cap pins so here's a hopefully helpful guide for how I personally make them.

***I can't do image descriptions in this post right now, my apologies. But I will try and explain as much detail as possible while writing the steps. If someone reblogs this with image descriptions I will reblog and credit the person

***You'll need: a hot glue gun, pliers, a soda tab, a safety pin, a thumbtack, scissors, and some cardboard

Step 1: Score the inside of the bottle cap with a thumbtack, just the flat circle part. (This is so the glue sticks better) I do it down and across so the surface is thoroughly scratched up

Step 2: cut a piece of cardboard small enough to fit inside the scored part of the cap, inside the ridges too, and glue it in. It doesn't have to be shaped like a circle but it needs to fit flush against the plastic like this:

Once it's glued in there, seal it with some glue. The less you use the better but it really needs to be in there good. You don't need to score the sides on the inside of the cap, the glue will hold on the the ridges that are already there so it should be fine

***note: if you have a way of safely melting down the edges of the cap to make the whole thing thinner, the cardboard can be skipped entirely and you can just glue the soda tab and safety pin directly to the scored plastic

Step 3: bend your soda tab slightly with your pliers and insert the safety pin into it like you would for metal bottle cap pins. Make sure it looks like this:

The bent soda tab should be facing down and the pointy part of the pin should be facing up. Insert the piece that holds the pin closed under the middle part of the tab and back up through the other side, the slight bend of the tab should let it fit snugly in place.

Step 4: glue tab/pin on top of the cardboard piece. Again, the less glue the better, but to make sure it doesn't go anywhere I like to use another pin to move the glue all up in and around the soda tab so make sure it's held in place. Its also good to make sure the side of the pin sitting on the cardboard is thoroughly glued so it won't move around. Sometimes a little extra glue is necessary

Once it cools and you have your pin, you'll want to make sure that it sits balanced on a flat surface upright like this:

You'll wanna try and avoid having the safety pin sticking out too far otherwise it won't sit well on whatever you pin it to. So for it to look nicer it needs to be able to sit flat (painted side up)

And all that's left to do is paint it. Be sure to keep the angle of the pin in mind while painting to make pinning it to things easier. I hope this was helpful :) happy crafting 🌿❤️🌻

[sciderman]

Really hope the doctor/therapist can help you out, Sci :,( As for the webtoons and tapas bullshit, uuuuuuuh,,,,,look on the bright side, you don’t have to do it anymore

agree - i never wanted to do it - but i feel sad on the behalf of all the people who wanted to read the blog on a more accessible platform. but it just isn't meant to be.

ultimately - it's been a problem since the beginning of ask-spiderpool and - you know, really - tumblr is the platform it was intended to be on and meant to be engaged with on. everywhere else is just an attempt to archive it - when it really, truly lives here. the same feeling of "home" just won't be captured anywhere else. even when i post to instagram or anything - it's just like, me opening a window for other people to glimpse through. but tumblr is home.

[janerhoadesart]

More sashiko inspired patches and mending!

I didn’t know that the traditional way to do a sashiko mend is to stitch the patch with the pattern and and then attach the patch to the clothing… but i still think it looks really cool! And it should still be plenty strong lol.

[myofficeisablanketfort]

more mending. I thought about keeping this one as invisible as possible because this is one of my more formal tops, but fuck that. if I do it nicely enough it can still be "formal" but with more personality

this is where the actual hole was. it took six tries to find an approach that actually looked good but I'm happy with it now (tbh the green stitching is mostly for reinforcement and aesthetics, I did a quick pass with black on the inside to get everything lined up and most of the way secured first)

and because I thought a single green line crawling out of one armpit looks a little bit odd, here's a moon for symmetry. satin stitching is NOT my strength but this turned out ok

[dinosaur-ears]

I finally tried darning!

It's not terrific, but it's a perfect learning project--the bottom of my kid's hand-me-down pajama feet.

I sewed a layer of felt sandwiched between two layers of cotton to the inside of the sole to patch it and provide some cushion, so the darning is just to add longevity to the original outer layer.

I still have a few more spots to do:

But I'm happy for the learning opportunity and to make otherwise great clothes last through another child!

[bullrunpicnicker]

once build 42 of project zomboid drops i will never be seen from again

[the-bramble--patch]

Sustainable fashion for the Solar Punk

If you enjoyed this, consider checking out my Ko-Fi for a printable zine version (or just to support my art :))

[aakritcreative]

In 2012, French Beckeepers could not solve the mystery of the blue and green colored honey in their bechives until they discovered that the bees were visiting a local M&M factory. 😂

Did you know? 🎓

[dawnthefluffyduck]

Statement of intent

(Stranger!Noelle is from Looking Glasses by @ferronickel - check it out if you haven't already!)

[randomwriteronline]

Oh btw. Things that make me insane:

this Entire Fucking Chapter never fails to have me going absolutely rabid with happiness but specifically i did distinctly remember that Kopaka smiled in this occasion - not smirked, smiled, which is something that i dont think he does often especially in the first few books. On my first read I wholly believed he would have turned around and thrown something directly at Pohatu's head while yelling at him but no, he hears his voice and his first reaction is Pure Unbridled Joy

He was so relieved he literally forgot that hes the cold distant one and actually expressed an uncompromisingly positive feeling of care. I choose to believe he smiled so honestly that he was literally radiant. Like looking directly at the sun. Blinded everybody in a twenty five km radius for one singular hot second.

And then of course he went SHIT WAIT MY COOL DISTANT GUY PERSONA