Projeto - Permacultura no CEA

Dia 60

E não é que o canteiro das favas fica muito mais giro colorido?
Ionut, see what Yara did today! Our work is much better: it seems like a tire rainbow. Nice!

Projeto - Permacultura no CEA

Dia 58

Os estágios do Pedro e da Yara estão pertinho do fim, pelo que os últimos dias estão a ser ainda mais trabalhosos do que o costume.
Parece que o tempo passa a correr e que nem tudo foi feito. Há sempre tantas coisas para fazer que os dias não chegam!
Socorremos um lagarto da água, e ainda fizemos uma pulseira/coroa vegetal.
Hoje, o penúltimo dia de estágio do Pedro, foi de muita cor e de muito artesanato: temos uma nova mesa feita de um rolo velho que já tínhamos há uns tempos aqui no CEA, os garrafões colhidos no ecoponto estão agora mais bonitos, com a técnica de macramé, a Raquel tentou ensinar ao Pedro e à Yara a técnica de cestaria com jornal (infrutiferamente, pois nem com muitas tentativas eles chegaram lá!). Vá, vale o esforço.
Ainda houve tempo para fazermos um creme de corpo e uma vela (estava tanto calor que deixamos solidificar até ao dia seguinte; amanhã, veremos o resultado final) e para colocar o nosso biopesticida nos tomateiros e na alcachofra.

Projeto - Permacultura no CEA

Dia 57

Mais um pneu transformado em arte!
Os resíduos podem mesmo transformar-se em objetos bonitos. E não vá alguém esquecer-se do âmbito das nossas atividades aqui no CEA, aqui fica o lembrete:

Projeto - Permacultura no CEA

Dia 55

Tantas coisas, tantas coisas!
Por onde começar? Pelo início. Ora bem, começamos por cortar e embrulhar o sabão feito pelos meus amigos da Escola Agrícola de Santo Tirso e ainda tivemos tempo de confraternizar com um escaravelho verdinho e brilhante.
A Natureza é tão bonita!

Projeto - Permacultura no CEA

Dia 49

Hoje foi dia de fazermos mais um banquinho de jornais.
Desta vez, pensamos usar este baco para meditação, ou seja, teremos de nos sentar de uma outra forma. Ora vejam:

Troca de Livros

Projeto - Rermacultura no CEA

Dia 48

O que fazer com jornais velhos e a vontade de não nos sentarmos no chão duro?
Juntando a imaginação, um pouco de trapilho e uma camisola velha, fazemos um belo banquinho! Extraordinário o que o cérebro pode "magicar"!
O Pedro e a Raquel lá conseguiram colocar em prática este pequeno projeto e ficou maravilhoso!

 

Que seja o primeiro de muitos, que eles até dão jeito aqui no CEA.

Projeto - Permacultura no CEA

DIA 46

De degrau em degrau, com terra e pneus, a Catarina, o Pedro, a Raquel e a Sara colocaram as sacholas na mão.
Foi um dia de Braço Direito.
Foi um dia de construções.
Foi uma manhã cheia de chuva, mas cheia de proveito.
Agora já temos escadas para alcançar, sem cair, a torneirinha de rega das framboeseiras!
Haja vontade e pneus!
E para animar o trabalho, porque precisamos de muita força, lembramo-nos desta música.

No caminho de muitos quilos de terra transportada, encontramos um amigo: será que vai ser uma borboleta? É que não me parece uma processionária.

Projeto - Permacultura no CEA

Dia 45

E mais uma vez, o lixo de uns, tornou-se no nosso tesouro!
Decidimos chamar a este projeto "Bidé estragado - Bidé estragão".

Entretanto, fomos inspecionar os nossos cultivos e sementeiras e demos de caras com FAVAS! E com as sementinhas da cama elevada a crescerem!
Numa verdadeira aventura, a missão de salvamento da tampa, não fosse ela saltar, correu tão bem, que em vez de uma, o Pedro encontrou as duas! E agora, a compostagem ficará perfeita.

Projeto - Permacultura no CEA» Lixo de uns, tesouro de outros!

Dia 39

Aqui está o nosso tesouro: um novo lavatório na zona exterior do CEA.
Para quando terminamos os nossos trabalhos na terra; lavamos as mãozinhas e estamos prontos para irmos para casa!
Falta só o nosso sabão caseiro feito com óleo usado.
Maravilha de lixo!

A Raquel, para este trabalho, teve a ajuda do Cristóvão, um amigo de longa data do CEA.

"Compostar" fezes animais?

Just like turning, adding a nitrogen source to the pile heats it up. All compost piles are a balance between carbon and nitrogen sources, aka "greens and browns." Too much carbon and your pile is cool and slow. Too much nitrogen and its slimy and stinky. But if you get the balance right, you end up with lovely compost.

In kitty litter composting, the litter is the carbon and the urine and poo deliver the nitrogen. Starting out on this path, I had no idea how the natural carbon to nitrogen ratio in a cat box would play out. Now it seems to me that the ratio is carbon heavy. Cat litter materials, such as compressed sawdust, are really dense carbon sources and need tons of nitrogen to balance them. So my preliminary finding on this point is that it might be help to add extra nitrogen when you add a new layer of litter. Extra nitrogen could come in the form of green yard trimmings, veg scraps, urine, fresh horse manure, etc.

Projeto - Permacultura no CEA

DIA 28

Por aqui, andamos à "caça" de material para novos projetos:

Garrafas e garrafões plásticos usados

Olá a todos.

Venho agradecer a todos os que disponibilizaram litros de óleo usado para o CEA.

E desta vez, venho pedir-vos, caso tenham, garrafas e garrafões de plástico vazios.
Vão ser usados para o projeto do CEA e para novas atividades.
Precisamos de muitos, por isso, todos serão bem-vindos!

Quem disse que não dá para fazer música com lixo?

Trabalhos manuais com resíduos:

Como reciclar recorrendo ao artesanato?
Aqui ficam 5 ideias:

Abrilhantar a cidade com alguns resíduos, no mínimo, brilhantes!

Gilding the City by Sayraphim Lothian
Sayraphim Lothian is a craft and visual artist interested in exploring playful and participatory experiences. She co-runs Pop Up Playground, an urban games collective; recently participated in a playful residency at the National Gallery of Victoria and some of her work can be found in the archives of the NGV, the collection at MOMA and now, on streets around the world.



When I was young one of my favourite books in the world was Pippi Longstocking. Pippi, the strongest little girl in all the world, had a number of interesting hobbies but the one which appealed most to me was her game of Turnup Stuffing in which she would walk around outside and keep an eye on the ground for ‘Stuffs’ that ‘turned up’. Anything she found she would happily take home. Although as a child I thought the things she found were a bit rubbish (from memory they were a rusty cake tin and an empty spool of thread), I decided I would become a Turnup Stuffer too and find much more interesting things and lots of them. From that day, whenever I was outside, I would spend most of my walking time carefully scanning the ground for anything I might find.

Over the years I’ve found and brought home a myriad of interesting, useful and (I have to be honest) not so useful things. You tend to see a lot of leaves and rubbish, bits of broken glass, cigarette butts and chewing gum but in between all the trash you’d be surprised how often you find other things. If you’re not already a Turnup Stuffer, try it next time you’re out and about and see what you discover for yourself.

A few years ago I noticed that I was regularly finding bits of broken jewellery; pendants that had snapped in half, twisted rings that didn’t fit anymore, stray beads that had made brave leaps off bracelets and necklaces and fake jewels that had come loose from their moorings along with random items that I couldn’t really place but had clearly come off something somewhere. I couldn’t just let all these things get swept away into the trash, it felt like such a waste! These were beautiful, if twisted and broken, and I reasoned that the world hardly needed more rubbish lining its streets. So, I collected up all these tiny, shiny, interestin’ bits and took them all home.

For years I didn’t know what to do with them. They all sat in a big clear glass jar slowly filling their way to the top. I was a bit worried that I was collecting all this stuff for no purpose at all but I couldn’t throw them out. The collection sat on my bookcase and quietly continued to grow as I went about my daily life.

Then one day I saw an interview with Daniel Lynch, the Melbourne street artist behind Junky Projects. “Junkys” are charming little figures created from flattened cans and beer bottle lids which are nailed up around Melbourne. In his interview, Daniel mentioned that he doesn’t introduce anything more to the streets when he makes his pieces; he only uses what he finds and rearranges it into these little creatures.



And then a light went off in my head.

I love Melbourne and I wanted to show my love for Melbourne by making it jewellery to wear and, since Melbourne is a city, jewellery created from broken bits found in the streets seemed the perfect type of jewellery to give. I think the city is beautiful so adding jewellery to it was almost like gilding the lily. So I called the project Gilding the City and I got down to work.

The first ‘Gild’ I created was the Victorian Mourning Brooch, inspired by an ivory coloured resin rose which I found in Dandenong (a suburb on the outskirts of Melbourne). I added black glass beads found in South Melbourne and a crystal bead found outside the Melbourne Theatre Company and finished it off with a pearl drop earring at the bottom. I should clarify that, though I remember where I found most of these items, I’m not obsessive about the collection of broken bits. Instead everything that went into this piece, bar the earring, were found only recently which is why I still remember where they came from. Looking over the photos of the other pieces I couldn’t tell you where most of the other bits came from!

I’ve never worked in the medium of jewellery before and I’ve found the process both interesting and inspiring. Every Gild is created around a central piece that dictates the piece’s theme. For instance, ‘The Garden’ started with the silver spiral bead at the bottom which made me think of a snail shell and I went into my collection and found green beads and other interesting, garden type items to match it. ‘The Night Sky’ was created around the broken semi-circular silver earring, which to me was absolutely a moon, that I then wired to a cubic zirconia still in it’s setting to create a star hanging from the top of the moon.

It’s really important to me that I am not introducing anything new into the environment in the creation of these pieces. I don’t want to create more litter; what I want to do is refashion the things already on the streets into beautiful and interesting works of art.

I see the Gilds as secular versions of the ritual items hung off trees and thrown down wells in earlier societies; little trinkets that hold wishes and hopes, prayers to gods big and small. They also echo the natural debris and rubbish that gets caught in low hanging river trees after a flood. At the same time, they’re little decorations hung on the streets; surprises for those who see them, tiny magical moments bubbling through the city.

This project was released on the streets of Melbourne on January 2 and it’s already evolving. With the help of members of the Agency of Coney, a UK based company whose three principals of adventure, loveliness and curiosity helped inspire this project, Gilding pieces will start appearing on the streets of England and America in the next few weeks which is a thrilling development.

Now, if you’ll excuse me, I need to go out and Turnup more Stuff. Gilding the City has just become Gilding the World and that’s going to need heaps more discarded and broken bits to create enough pieces!

Projeto - Permacultura no CEA» o que fazer com latas velhas?

DIA 21

Por cá temos algumas latas de leite desidratado.
Pensamos, e pensamos e pensamos, ...
E chegamos a esta conclusão:

Projeto - Permacultura no CEA

Caros seguidores do Blog do Topas,

No seguimento da criação das novas atividades de educação ambiental no CEA-AdDP, há algum material que é necessário e que é um pouco difícil de recolher, não só pelas quantidades, mas também pelas práticas alimentares diárias.

Assim, e para conseguir fazer velas e sabão com produtos reciclados, vimos pedir-vos para entregarem no CEA o óleo alimentar usado que possam dispor, ou se tal não for possível contactar-nos.

Gratos.

Eco-Furoshiki

FANTÁSTICO!





Afinal, o que é o Furoshiki?
É uma técnica japonesa fantástica em que se utiliza tecidos e nós para podermos transportar objectos pequenos e grandes.

Aqui, podem encontrar muitas técnicas e muitos nós diferentes.

"Originating from Japanese culture where it promotes caring for the environment and reducing waste; Furoshiki is the eco-friendly wrapping cloth. Using techniques similar to origami, it can be used for gift wrapping, grocery shopping or simply as decor. Choose from a wide variety of sizes and designs to complement your lifestyle. Why furoshiki? It is reusable and multipurpose. Each year billions of plastic bags end up as litter; reusable bags, such as furoshiki can help reduce the impact to our environment. Its versatility allows you to wrap almost anything regardless of its shape or size."

Sapatilhas ecológicas

A sola é feita de pneu!