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‘Repair’ workshops are not just effective, they change the way people think about what they have and what they might buy. Having volunteered a day a month over 4 years I also understand the satisfactiongives. Not to mention making some things economically viable for those who don't have the ‘luxury' of dump and repurchase and encouraging manufacturers to reform.
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2025/mar/06/repair-shops-broken-devices-new-lease-of-life
#ReuseRepairRecycle #Reuse #Repair #Recycle
‘Repair’ workshops are not just effective, they change the way people think about what they have and what they might buy. Having volunteered a day a month over 4 years I also understand the satisfactiongives. Not to mention making some things economically viable for those who don't have the ‘luxury' of dump and repurchase and encouraging manufacturers to reform.
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2025/mar/06/repair-shops-broken-devices-new-lease-of-life
#ReuseRepairRecycle #Reuse #Repair #Recycle
Teh AnKorage is, now, on Bluesky! Check us out and FOLLOW!
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Teh AnKorage is, now, on Bluesky! Check us out and FOLLOW!
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Wool can be made without killing animals. I think we need to go back to using #hemp, #wood and #wool -- and less synthetics. But most of all, make furniture and rugs that last -- so generation after generation can use them!
What You Need to Know About #OffGassing
Even after an install, a project’s furnishings and finishes can leach harmful chemicals into the air for years through a process called off-gassing. Here’s how you can combat it.
by Audrey Gray
"'Okay, I want to tell you about some things,' she recalls telling her client, going on to carefully explain the dangers inherent in both flooring choices—primarily the health impacts of chemical inhalants. Not only would these #chemicals flood a home during the installation of new #carpet or #vinyl planks, but they would continue to gradually leach into the air for years to come—a more subtle (but dangerous) process referred to as off-gassing. Thompson didn’t want her client’s family exposed to a vapor stew of chemicals every day, least of all in the yoga space, where the whole point was to breathe deeply while near the floor.
"She offered her client some carefully sourced options such as an all-wool carpet with a natural #rubber pad, and advocated for solid, #sustainably sourced wood downstairs instead of a composite of plastics. 'I thought she’d be excited,' Thompson says. 'But because of her beliefs about animal rights, I learned that wool wasn’t acceptable to her…and there were price point issues too. I thought, ‘Wow, this is a whole new level I hadn’t encountered.’”
"Welcome to what materials experts call 'one of the most complicated issues in health and wellness,' the murky and unregulated (at least in the U.S.—Europe is much stricter) relationships humans have with thousands of airborne #toxins emanating from our building materials, #furnishings, #CleaningProducts, #CarInteriors, #iPads, and even #candles.
"'Nobody’s telling you what is coming from all those vapors mixing in the air,' says Jillian Pritchard Cooke, the founder of Wellness Within Your Walls, an education consultancy focused on dramatically reducing the dangers of off-gassing in the built environment. 'It’s up to us to understand the individual effects each chemical can have on your #NervousSystem, your #lungs, and your cellular makeup. We need to be doing right by our clients.'
"Designers have, of course, been aware of the dangers of volatile organic compounds (#VOCs) for a long time, and have helped influence some wins in the marketplace, like the rising popularity of low- or no-VOC paints and the 2015 ban Home Depot and Lowe’s instituted in 2015 on toxic #phthalates (a class of industrial chemicals that help make plastic bendy) in flooring.
"But the problem endures, and unfortunately, many of the worst effects of VOCs—showing up in health conditions—accumulate over long periods of time.
"One of the best arguments for incorporating #vintage pieces in design, apart from saving space in landfills and decreasing carbon emissions, is that they are far safer from an off-gassing perspective. #Recycling building materials (for instance, saving the doors during a retrofit) helps too."
https://getpocket.com/explore/item/what-you-need-to-know-about-off-gassing?utm_source=pocket-newtab-en-us
#Recycle #Repair #Reuse
#ThrowawayCulture #Synthetics #Plastics #Pollution #Underconsumption
What You Need to Know About #OffGassing
Even after an install, a project’s furnishings and finishes can leach harmful chemicals into the air for years through a process called off-gassing. Here’s how you can combat it.
by Audrey Gray
"'Okay, I want to tell you about some things,' she recalls telling her client, going on to carefully explain the dangers inherent in both flooring choices—primarily the health impacts of chemical inhalants. Not only would these #chemicals flood a home during the installation of new #carpet or #vinyl planks, but they would continue to gradually leach into the air for years to come—a more subtle (but dangerous) process referred to as off-gassing. Thompson didn’t want her client’s family exposed to a vapor stew of chemicals every day, least of all in the yoga space, where the whole point was to breathe deeply while near the floor.
"She offered her client some carefully sourced options such as an all-wool carpet with a natural #rubber pad, and advocated for solid, #sustainably sourced wood downstairs instead of a composite of plastics. 'I thought she’d be excited,' Thompson says. 'But because of her beliefs about animal rights, I learned that wool wasn’t acceptable to her…and there were price point issues too. I thought, ‘Wow, this is a whole new level I hadn’t encountered.’”
"Welcome to what materials experts call 'one of the most complicated issues in health and wellness,' the murky and unregulated (at least in the U.S.—Europe is much stricter) relationships humans have with thousands of airborne #toxins emanating from our building materials, #furnishings, #CleaningProducts, #CarInteriors, #iPads, and even #candles.
"'Nobody’s telling you what is coming from all those vapors mixing in the air,' says Jillian Pritchard Cooke, the founder of Wellness Within Your Walls, an education consultancy focused on dramatically reducing the dangers of off-gassing in the built environment. 'It’s up to us to understand the individual effects each chemical can have on your #NervousSystem, your #lungs, and your cellular makeup. We need to be doing right by our clients.'
"Designers have, of course, been aware of the dangers of volatile organic compounds (#VOCs) for a long time, and have helped influence some wins in the marketplace, like the rising popularity of low- or no-VOC paints and the 2015 ban Home Depot and Lowe’s instituted in 2015 on toxic #phthalates (a class of industrial chemicals that help make plastic bendy) in flooring.
"But the problem endures, and unfortunately, many of the worst effects of VOCs—showing up in health conditions—accumulate over long periods of time.
"One of the best arguments for incorporating #vintage pieces in design, apart from saving space in landfills and decreasing carbon emissions, is that they are far safer from an off-gassing perspective. #Recycling building materials (for instance, saving the doors during a retrofit) helps too."
https://getpocket.com/explore/item/what-you-need-to-know-about-off-gassing?utm_source=pocket-newtab-en-us
#Recycle #Repair #Reuse
#ThrowawayCulture #Synthetics #Plastics #Pollution #Underconsumption
Across the world the right to repair is gaining traction... in the UK Jay Blades & his colleagues on The Repair Shop have pushed repairing into the mainstream.
This has been going on for some time, including cycle repair Co-ops, repair clinics etc. Every now & then it pops up in the mainstream media... and here is this week's iteration.
Repairing is the future, but the Tech firms don't want us to embrace it - resist!
#repair #recycle #green
https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/article/2024/jun/16/the-great-diy-revival-meet-the-people-wholl-try-to-fix-anything
This has been going on for some time, including cycle repair Co-ops, repair clinics etc. Every now & then it pops up in the mainstream media... and here is this week's iteration.
Repairing is the future, but the Tech firms don't want us to embrace it - resist!
#repair #recycle #green
https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/article/2024/jun/16/the-great-diy-revival-meet-the-people-wholl-try-to-fix-anything
(Don't) look up!
#climatechange #environment #sustainability #nature #globalwarming #savetheplanet #climate #climatecrisis #ecofriendly #climateaction #zerowaste #sustainable #earth #gogreen #climatechangeisreal #plasticfree #green #sustainableliving #climateemergency #recycle #eco #pollution #fridaysforfuture #climatejustice #climatestrike #covid #vegan #renewableenergy #water #photography #photo
#climatechange #environment #sustainability #nature #globalwarming #savetheplanet #climate #climatecrisis #ecofriendly #climateaction #zerowaste #sustainable #earth #gogreen #climatechangeisreal #plasticfree #green #sustainableliving #climateemergency #recycle #eco #pollution #fridaysforfuture #climatejustice #climatestrike #covid #vegan #renewableenergy #water #photography #photo
𝗠𝘂𝘀𝗵𝗿𝗼𝗼𝗺 𝗽𝗮𝗰𝗸𝗮𝗴𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗽𝗿𝗼𝘃𝗶𝗱𝗲𝘀 𝗮 𝗻𝗲𝘄 𝘀𝗼𝗹𝘂𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻 𝘁𝗼 𝗽𝗹𝗮𝘀𝘁𝗶𝗰 𝘄𝗮𝘀𝘁𝗲 𝗽𝗿𝗼𝗯𝗹𝗲𝗺
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2023-01-20/mushroom-packaging-solution-to-plastic-waste-problem/101873116
A start-up packaging company combines fungi with organic waste to grow and create compostable packaging.
Organic waste and mycelium is grown for 7 days in a mold and the final product is able to be used in place of traditional materials such as polystyrene.
After use, the packaging can be composted in the garden.
Let's do this now! 🍄
#Fungi #Recycle #Plastc #Mycology #Mushrooms
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2023-01-20/mushroom-packaging-solution-to-plastic-waste-problem/101873116
A start-up packaging company combines fungi with organic waste to grow and create compostable packaging.
Organic waste and mycelium is grown for 7 days in a mold and the final product is able to be used in place of traditional materials such as polystyrene.
After use, the packaging can be composted in the garden.
Let's do this now! 🍄
#Fungi #Recycle #Plastc #Mycology #Mushrooms
Mushroom packaging could provide a new solution to plastic waste problem
A Melbourne company is the first in Australia to use wine waste and fungi to make bottle packaging in an effort to curb plastic waste.Rosanne Maloney (ABC News)
I finally got round to documenting the A8 micronotepad which has gradually became an extension of myself.
https://dougwebb.site/posts/micronotebook/
"This notepad is pretty much two bank cards, with a bit of duct tape as a 'spine' and an elastic band to keep the paper in. This design came out of a need to have a completely portable way to take notes."
#lowtech #upcycle #recycle #diy #PIM #notetaking
https://dougwebb.site/posts/micronotebook/
"This notepad is pretty much two bank cards, with a bit of duct tape as a 'spine' and an elastic band to keep the paper in. This design came out of a need to have a completely portable way to take notes."
#lowtech #upcycle #recycle #diy #PIM #notetaking
