Presenting the Innovative Ooho

By: Daniela Silva

Ooho an edible water “bottle” has been developed by design students in imperial college london. Created by Rodrigo Garcia Gonzalez, Pierre Paslier, and Guillaume Couche this new development may bring down the plastic plague that litters our oceans and landfills. Cheap, easy to make, and with a great green initiative the Ooho presents a strong competitive front to compete with bottled water.

It takes two pennies to produce one Ooho and even better, you can make them at home, the ingredients can easily be ordered online and be made in you kitchen safely in minutes and takes trial and error to get the consistency you prefer. In order to be able to take these around you will need a clean container and clean hands to handle them in order to consume them.

With a natural base of calcium chloride and brown algae, the Ooho will have a substantially fast  decomposition time as compared to plastic bottles which take 450 - 1000 years to decompose, and some plastic bottles may never biodegrade.

Ooho is still a product yet to be introduced reviewed and improved, yet the world is completely delighted to see such a fun, environmentally friendly and innovative product that has the potential to push us into the right direction of cleaning up our earth and taking care of our people.

Five Ways to Show Earth Love from the Kitchen

By: Jessica Robertson

For many of us, our kitchen is the centre of our home life. Food makes fellowship, and fellowship makes happiness. With all that good stuff flowing out of the kitchen, let’s be conscious of the impact we’re making on the earth to keep the good coming.

Be kind to the earth from your very own kitchen with these five simple tips.

1.      Big Money

Obviously, the big energy saver would be to switch out those old, energy-guzzling appliances for their newer green counterparts. If that’s an option for you, go for it! The environment will thank you. If that’s a little too pricey of a change for your taste, keep reading.

2.      Be Smart

Save energy the old fashioned way, by making wise choices. Covering a pot makes water boil twice as fast, using half the energy. Use the toaster oven for one-portion cooking. Turn the stove off a few minutes before you’re done cooking, and let the lingering heat do the remaining work. It’s the small things that add up to big changes!

3.      Eat Raw

Not only are raw foods like fruits and veggies and nuts great for your health, they’re great choices for the planet! They don’t require cooking, so they save tons of energy, and they also require less packaging, so you contribute less waste to the landfill. It’s a win-win-win.

4.      Less Plastic

Speaking of landfills, they’re full of our food containers, grocery bags, plastic packaging, and the list goes on. Reducing our use of these readily disposable – but hardly biodegradable – objects is surprisingly easy. A few small changes include storing leftovers in glass rather than plastic (which is also an infinitely wiser choice for your health, by the way), buying food in bulk and dividing it into glass containers at home to reduce wasted packaging, and bringing your own totes to the grocery store.

5.      Wash Nice

Be careful what you wash with. Many popular kitchen soaps and cleaning products are petroleum-based or brimming with other harmful chemicals. We may forget about the soap once it’s down the drain, but it doesn't bio degrade. It’s harmful to our animals, the earth, and us, so choose better cleaners that are plant-based instead. A few earth-friendly brands are likely available in your neighbourhood grocery store.

Keep the love flowing from your kitchen to your friends, family, and the earth!