Like so many of these things we may never actually get the chance to purchase it, but I would love one of these. When are they going to realise that there is a market for these things and so many of us can’t wait. I love my little VW Golf Diesel but I would ditch it in a second for one of these Peapods, and not just because it has built in support for my iPhone.
In the 6 months that we had our first Mobile Muster box, we managed to collect 3kgs of phones, batteries and accessories for recycling. It seems that everyone you mention mobile muster to always has a broken phone some where that they knew they should just throw in the bin but until now didn’t know what else to do with it.
Since July 2007 Mobile Muster has collected over 100,000 kgs which included 788,600 handsets and batteries as well as 47,200 kgs of chargers and accessories. To get more info just visit mobilemuster.com.au
I don’t know the other names but they are probably really good too if they are kicking around with Mark Vaarwerk. I think his Jewellery is great. He has even used our discarded milk bottles from Urban Grind in some of his pieces. It was very cool of Mark to take our bottles and re-purpose them.
For a while now Urban Grind has had a Mobile Muster Box. It is great because you can not only throw in your old mobile phones to be recycled but you can also throw in all of those accessories you you never use.
I try to think of Urban Grind as a community hub which is why I requested one of these boxes. You can find them at places like Cartridge World but a lot of the places you find them are once in a while places. The places that every time you go in and see the box you smack yourself in the head for forgetting that old mobile phone again. But Urban Grind is different, most people are there day after day (God love em!) so it only takes a couple of forgetful moments before the phones start rolling in.
To help those who are extra forgetful, Urban Grind will see Mobile Musters tree and give you a free coffee for turning in your old mobile phone. If you want to learn more about Mobile Muster please read on.
Continue reading ‘Coffees for Mobile Phones’
Recently I have started using www.scoodi.com to keep an eye out for things that people in my area might be wanting to give away or sell cheap. Scoodi sends me a daily update of new items but only within a 20km radius of my address. This means that someone on my street might be wanting to give something away that I need and I will find out. Maybe even meet some new people in my local area.
Rach and I plan to do a clean up soon, so you might find some of our stuff on there soon. The site is a nice idea and worth checking out. Takes no time to register, and being a part of it just means scanning a very quick email each day.
Did anyone read page 3 of last Saturday’s Courier Mail. Not something that I would normally recommend doing but due to the heads up that I was given I can recommend that you read it now. Here is a link to the article online: Drivers in line for fuel ration shock.
Without getting into a rant on this one I would just like to point out that we need to be seriously having this discussion. Government is often the last to catch on, and if they are finally convinced that things are really bad then it might just be too late. So lets learn a new word…Locavore:
Oxford Word of the Year
Locavore on Wikipedia
The Locavore in South Australia
www.locavores.com
Oh, why the new word? Well the way we consume food contributes in massive ways to our fuel consumption. Listen to this short talk for a very good overview of how it all works: Mark Bittman: What’s wrong with what we eat?
“You never change things by fighting the existing reality. To change something, build a new model that makes the existing model obsolete.” - Buckminster Fuller
Urban Grind can now collect your old, no longer working mobile phones and send them off to be recycled thanks to our Mobile Muster box. We can take your accessories too, and the chargers. And until we close for Xmas, we will trade you a free coffee for your old mobile phone in an effort to get you digging in those draws and scamming your friends for their old phones. It is very exciting for us to be able to offer this at Urban Grind.
Lets be honest, there are people that when it comes to the environment, they do think that the sun shines out of their arses.
Source: Until the sun shines out of your arse - Osocio, Social Advertising and Non-profit Campaigns
Ok, so I have a few iPods and in many ways I should not be the ideal bringer of this news, but ‘the story of stuff’ is not trying to tell us that we can’t have stuff, but that we do need to think about how we are producing this stuff. At the end of this 20min presentation (click above image) there are 2 things that you can do.
Discover handmade, locally-made, non-toxic products. And accept that the higher price is a more realistic price. This is a good place to start.
If you want to better understand these closed loop ideas etc, then you can watch a video by one of the leaders in this kind of thinking. His thoughts and actions, are so inspiring. His name is William MacDonough. The concept is called ‘Cradle to Cradle’.
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