What's-Up Everyone! This week the world celebrates Global Environment Day, and it was great to see a few posts in the ecoTrain community to raise awareness on the many issues. This year global environment day reminds us that:
The foods we eat, the air we breathe, the water we drink and the climate that makes our planet habitable all come from nature.
Yet, these are exceptional times in which nature is sending us a message: To care for ourselves we must care for nature.
It's time to wake up. To take notice. To raise our voices. It's time to build back better for People and Planet. This World Environment Day, it's Time for Nature.
This week we also share a special selection of posts ranging from earthship eco building, a bit of home gardening , inspiring healthy foods, recycling, and some interesting news updates.
Thank you to everyone who is posting to the ecoTrain community and helping to make Hive and this world a better place. If you are interested in off-grid living, sustainability, homesteading and similar topics please do post to our community to receive our support and up-votes. We up-vote most good post on these topics with at least 80% with our combined 50,000HP, and share them with other curators to help your posts get noticed. If you haven't seen our community before please do stop by and subscribe so you can see more great posts in your feeds.
Wishing you all a beautiful weekend wherever you are, and whatever you are doing!
@erikah
Today is World Environment Day
Today is a big day, it's World Environment Day! To be honest I had no idea and no plan to celebrate it. In the morning when I opened my Twitter feed, my crafter friends were already tweeting about it, that's how I found out.
World Environment Day (WED) is celebrated on 5 June every year, and is the United Nations' principal vehicle for encouraging awareness and action for the protection of the environment. First held in 1974, it has been a flagship campaign for raising awareness on environmental issues emerging from marine pollution, human overpopulation, and global warming, to sustainable consumption and wildlife crime. World Environment Day has grown to become a global platform for public outreach, with participation from over 143 countries annually. source
At the beginning of the year as a resolution I said starting from this year I have to make everything in my power to protect nature, stop waste, recycle, reuse, repurpose as much a I can.
@darlenys01
WE CELEBRATE WORLD ENVIRONMENT DAY
Happy Hive Community Day:
Today is a very special day and although a little sad because I could not share like every year with my children in Venezuela and do the activities that we like so much, I wanted to remember together with @ecotrain friends who like me love the land , the world environment day.
For example, in my case I am used to doing many ecological activities with children in Venezuela, with the limitations we have for quarantine it has been a little difficult, however I have shared some work done by children via video conference and in a virtual way.
The most important thing is to share and create awareness in the little ones about the importance of taking care of our environment, we promote environmental action: Reduce, Reuse, Recycle.
I have the privilege in my country to observe beautiful landscapes and exuberant natural beauty, thanking the creator for giving me the opportunity to experience them.
@stillgideon
The Big Shift. Part 5. Now and Then
After bidding their fond farewells to Mabel and her family, Greta, Jerry and Captain Toast headed out into Shopping Village towards the big building at the centre of the village which was where Jerry lived. The sky was getting dark and lights were starting to come on all around the village. There was a fashion for fairy lights, some golden, some silver, some multicoloured, flashing and twinkling, strung across trees and awnings lighting up the path that wound between the various dwellings.
None of them so bright that they outshone the stars which were starting to appear in the darkening sky, or the sliver of the new moon which hung low over the western horizon. Not so many years ago, this wide, flat expanse had been a twelve lane highway connecting cities. A place where nothing could live. A place where no animal that didn't have wings could ever hope to cross and make it to the other side alive. In those days, the constant roar of speeding cars, trucks and motorbikes would have made it a dangerous and toxic environment.
Even the people inside the vehicles needed to be strapped into their chairs in case of technical malfunction, human error, momentary loss of focus or sudden distraction which could all lead to terrible accidents.
@stortebeker
Mazunte Build – A View From a Bird's Eye
Just before leaving the property in Mazunte, having completed our Earthship-like building project, our neighbor Pablo came over with his GoPro Drone to take some pictures of the structure from up above.
Even though I was sure that I knew every viewpoint of this building, having worked on it for the last four months, I was amazed at the spectacular areal footage this machine captured. The most interesting aspect of it, after the reciprocal roof, is the berm with the curving concrete beam, forming the circle of the bond-beam, and curving back around the berm.
Thank you Pablo, for this great video!
@mr-greens
Coming to Africa
Colby and Mallory had never been to Africa ... What did they think about Africa and how did they get to Africa for the first time?
In 2011, Franklin (@mr-greens) from Cameroon, Africa connected with Colby from the Phoenix, Arizona – US via an online course during which Franklin shared a lot about his organization, @thegreens, with course mates. At that time, @thegreens’ active project was Beautiful Clean Green Schools (BECLEGS). Colby was inspired with the work of Franklin (@mr-greens) who always shared pictures, videos and blogs about his work. As such, Colby asked Ngalim if he and his fiancée Mallory can volunteer with his organization.
@rawadventuress
Start now, today right away! - How we move from effort to ease
It might be weight loss for you, healthier eating habits, toning your body, spending more time in nature or starting a meditation practice. We all have goals in our life and dream of the time when we achieve them and enjoy more health and happiness.
If the motivation is high and we know how we can start to get there – why do we still not manage to reach our goals?
Yes. Change can be uncomfortable.
At first, new habits take effort, it is something we are not used to, something we have to push ourselves to follow through. And therefore we tend to start tomorrow, after the weekend, next month. Have you ever been there? I know, it can be hard but our dreams should never be postponed. Time is the most valuable resource we have and we should use it wisely. When I dived into the vegetarian lifestyle, before switching to plants only a little later, I decided one day that I don’t feel comfortable eating animals any longer and I stopped right away. I knew this was too important to wait for the perfect timing to begin with it. Was it worth it? It was one of the best decisions in my life. Was it easy to start? It was challenging but only in the beginning.
@fenngen
Community Journal #2: Recycling and Gathering Resources
With the virus life going on it's been hard for us as a community to get physically together and get any actual labor done. However, while walking around I found a burnt house that was easy to access and had tons of stuff that could be reused!
Zinc cans, some decent bed structures, supermarket carts (great for making dehydrator), and a few other things were available. Four of us went in to get mainly the zinc cans so we can build a storage with them and start gathering resources for our houses.
@vlemon
🌳#1 Weekly Positive Ecology News ! 🌳
Welcome to the "Positive Ecology News". There is a lot being done by countries, corporations and individuals to help our planet.
This Blog post aim to get you up to date with the new initiatives !
New energy paradigm
EV sales hit 11% market share in April (ev-sales)
Investment cuts could undermine energy transition (greentechmedia)
@papa-pepper
HOMEMADE STRAWBERRY SHAKES WITH HOMEGROWN STRAWBERRIES VIDEO!!!
This was incredible!!! This was worth the wait! Pinkie-Pepper picked and froze a good amount of strawberries to get prepared, and then it took almost a week for me to get ready to give this a try.... but it was so delicious!!!!
AND FINALLY
Cheap & Easy Tips for Reducing Your Waste - Sustainable Zero Waste Hacks
We're sharing a dozen cheap and easy tips to help beginners reduce their garbage output and transition to a low waste, or zero waste lifestyle. Our tips include things like avoiding plastic shopping and produce bags, using reusable glass or stainless steel food containers, coffee mugs, and water bottles. Doing a waste audit and researching what waste sorting options are available in your city or town (especially composting!!). Getting inspired by documentaries, bloggers, and Instagram accounts. Being a friendly activist and spreading the word about the importance of sustainable living, and reducing the amount of garbage we produce every day.
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Beautiful collection again! Thanks for adding my post to it.
Nice collection of posts, I would like to ask everyone to atleast plant a tree in this World Environment Day let's do our bit for the environment.
@ecotrain, Keep spreading the Inspiration regarding Zero Waste 🗑 Lifestyle.
Have a abundant time ahead and stay blessed always.