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Pela taxa sobre os sacos de plástico

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Os cerca de 150 sacos de plástico por pessoa produzidos anualmente acarretam graves consequências para o meio ambiente: para além de a sua produção implicar o consumo de combustíveis fósseis e a emissão de gases poluentes, cerca de 90% destes sacos acabam a sua vida em lixeiras, como lixo ou como contentores de desperdícios.

A distribuição gratuita de sacos de plástico por parte dos estabelecimentos comerciais, que é prática corrente Portugal é sinónimo de atraso em termos de consciência ambiental. Países europeus como a Bélgica, Irlanda e a Dinamarca taxam há anos os sacos de plástico, com benefícios óbvios para o meio-ambiente.

Taxar os sacos de plástico é a forma mais eficaz de incentivar os consumidores a usarem sacos reutilizáveis para as suas compras do dia-a-dia.

Por todas estas razões, os cidadãos abaixo-assinados pedem ao governo que não recue na sua intenção de introduzir uma taxa ecológica sobre os sacos de plástico.

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eu assinei. e tu?

(uma boa ideia da rosa).

edit: a nossa alternativa, que já está a ficar velhinha, é este saco (clicar na imagem para ver maior). inclui a nossa lista de compras, para não nos esquecermos de nada :)

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shoes and breakfast


the breakfast and shoes projects are two similar photographic essays. they both aim to capture the details of strangers by sharing their photo, along with what they have for breakfast, and what they wear on their feet.
the result is a colorful mesh of portraits and a precious insight into anonymous lifes, both well worth the visits.


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we cannot not change the world.


“We cannot not change the world. Isn’t that odd?

We are used to believing the opposite, that we cannot change the world, being the humble individuals we are. However, we either reinforce or change the way things are around us with every little thing we do. We establish and change the social world we live in every day. We call that social design.

We as people cannot escape acting in relation to other people. Even if we choose to live alone on a deserted island, that is design of our social reality. The social world is created as a result of the dynamics of all our individual actions.
We cannot not be social. We cannot not design. We cannot not change the world.”

from the social design site.

social design site is a place filled with projects that sparkle curiosity and deserve our attention, for one reason or another. they are catalogued as intriguing, web, cultural or art based, related to social philosophies, social experiment, systems for living or modern artifacts. they make us reflect on our surroundings, on the way people connect with each other and with the world.

and now, postcrossing is there too, side by side with names like treehugger, we are what we do, free hugs or miniature earth. and that makes me really proud. :)

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down by the sea

“every year on the small dutch island ‘texel’ there is a poetry competition, the best two poems are carved into truck tyres (by hand) and the poems are then written in letterpress all over the beach during the summer…”

the image and text are from mestudio.info and you can check out the rest of the pictures there. the whole idea is so cool!
the last few days the sky has actually been pretty blue for most of the time, making me dream of nivea, a sunny beach and my tanned skin a bit salty by the end of the day.
probably, the nightmare of any chinese girl. eheh… speaking of seaside…

threadless has teamed with blik to transform a few of their winning designs into wall graphics. they are looking mighty good. i guess that’s the bad side of this life of rented houses – not much creativity ends up on the walls. maybe one day, we can buy a lighthouse in new zealand and use this pirate infested waters print on the bedroom. that would be neat!

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you can all take a lesson from Rem Koolhaas

dear architects, i am sick of your shit is an open letter by annie choi to her architect friends, which is great to read (please use your sense of humor if you’re an architect!).
here’s a little excerpt:

Architects love to discuss how much sleep they have gotten. One will say how he was at the studio until five in the morning, only to return again two hours later. Then another will say, oh that is nothing. I haven’t slept in a week. And then another will say, guess what, I have never slept ever. My dear architects, the measure of how hard you’ve worked and how much you’ve accomplished is not related to the number of hours you have not slept. Have you heard of Rem Koolhaas? He is a famous architect. I know this because you tell me he is a famous architect. I hear that Rem Koolhaas is always sleeping. He is, I presume, sleeping right now. And I hear he gets shit done. And I also hear that in a stunning move, he is making a building that looks not like a glass cock, but like a concrete vagina. When you sleep more, you get vagina. You can all take a lesson from Rem Koolhaas.

apparently it was writen a year ago, and she even received some positive comment from Rem Koolhaas himself. how cool is that?

(seen on a barriga de um arquitecto)

ps – here’s a link to annie’s blog.