Yesterday received a link to this great Store Wars video. A really funny organics vs. transgenics food animation.
Tofu D2 is amazing!
:D

May the farm be with you!

Saw yesterday an interview with Marie-Monique Robin and found it very inspiring, for years this journalist has been researching about transgenic vs. organic and all the paths ended in the same business Monsanto, the transgenics giant. Scary though...
Robin shooted a documentary called “The World according to Monsanto” that you can check on youtube...
Here’s part 1.


How human being has gone sooooo far away from nature?
How “organic” has become a luxury term?
So many questions for this present moment...Maybe too many.

Today I woke up thinking about how happy I would be enjoying the Bouroullec brothers Slow Chair in my home studio... -sigh-
For more info visit mighty Vitra website ;)



PS: and here’s a good slow design blog.

Lately with the “recession and crisis thing” I can’t stop listening on the news about how many people without jobs are in this country at the moment...
Definitely capitalism hasn’t worked and new solutions are needed to take our society to a better place, maybe small changes trigger bigger “social revolutions”, and I’m thinking about one little experiment... ( this is just my humble opinion! ;)

What about the government creating organic sustainable vegetable farms and the disemployed people working part time on them to then offer these vegetables at cheaper prices on the market? This way people can have access to high quality organic products without spending too much and lots of job creations would be reached... The agriculture world in Spain is always complaining that they don’t have enough people to recollect apples, oranges, lettuces, whatever...
Do you prefer working on a grey office than open-air surrounded by nature? If your answer is yes, forget about everything that I said before... :/

I’m pasting below a clip taken from a BBC documentary called “Around the world in 80 gardens”, Monty Don visits La Habana this time and its organoponic vegetable “gardens”. Really inspiring solution for recession time.

I’m delighted that I found these Furoshiki instructions created by the Government of Japan!
A poetic and traditional way to reduce wastes using a foulard or similar to carry all kinds of things.


But if you are not too good at origami, you can always buy this fantastic Packrat bag at Lomo.
A great shopping bag indeed!

I don't use to watch TV...but yesterday I did, and I saw a documentary about Las Pozas, a surrealistic -and huge- “eden garden” in the middle of the Mexico jungle created by poet/humanist Edward James.
I became inmediately captivated by the beauty of it... isn’t it astonishing?



©photographs borrowed from Flickr.

Loved this DIY lamp idea!!
Is created by Domestic Construction.


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Yesterday at 9PM we met Paloma, our fab agro-organic-lady "huerto"-devoted...
And here is a picture from first home delivery bio-vegetables!
Thanks Pedro for the scoop...*

ps: look at our cat's face...amazed with all the goodies...

Ecoogler is created by Google to fight the deforestation in our planet.
It shows the same results from Google when you search on it but each search represents a leaf, and 1.000.000 leaves makes a donation to Aquaverde Foundation to help the Amazonas rain forest.

We want to collaborate to the cause too, in honor of it, Alan The Gallant (my studio) does not have a fax anymore, just emails please :D