SuperForest

Yay! And double yay!

(Where did this image come from? Anyone know who I should credit?)

This just in from SuperForester Jenni:

Hello out there!

designer’s own words:

“Using banana leaves as a new material to create new ecological packages for take away. Banana leaves are a by product which exists in many regions around the world This material has a wax-like surface which is ideal for wet and greasy foods. It is flexible and therefore can be adapted to many types of packaging. The leaves last long after they are cut off the trees. The packages are cut to form using die cutting technology. No glue is used. The unique qualities of this material allow packages to be opened simply by tearing the banana leaf along its natural perforation.”

-Tal Marco

(image via flickr user edwindejongh)

Appetite

I will swallow all the pain
all the joy of this world
the whole strange mix.
I will bite
chew
swallow
and digest it all
sending Love into the bloodstream
of the One Body.

Look at the plants that chew the rocks
and release the same minerals into my body
when they break against my teeth.
I too am food for life.
I desire to be broken
to be chewed
to be swallowed and transformed
into the bones
and flesh
and blood of the Truth.

Look at me.
Smell me.
Gaze until your mouth waters.
Let your appetite build
and savor the empty space in your belly.
Move from your hunger.
Come and take a bite.
You are not stealing.
You have been invited to this table.
Fill your plate.
Let me feed your heart with my heart.

-Meg Irsay

Thank you, SuperForester Meg!

Being grateful for all the good things that the nature and Earth brings to us  I want to say:

( image via)

I love the idea of Luvmud . The heart “ingredients” are worm castings, cow manure, clay, coconut coir (fiber), embedded with seeds for germination and the soil, of course:) You can put it on your window sill and allow herbs, vegetables or flowers to grow out of it:)

I love it:)

GROW your LOVE  freely:)

Love, E.

Empty bottles, full life!

via ecoideas.net

In February, we brought you all sorts of inter-species loving. Tigers and piglets, a lion/tiger/bear trio, and a whole bunch of humans with baby pandas… let me continue the trend and share with you this hen, Mabel, and her puppy snuggle buddies.

Apparently Mabel was brought inside (and spared a crueler fate) when she was too injured to keep herself warm last winter following a traumatic horse-trodding incident. After the family dog gave birth to a litter of puppies, the hen patiently waited for her chance; as soon as momma dog went outside, Mabel sneak-attacked her way into the puppy basket. The people involved in this story say that now, the hen acts as a babysitter and roosts on the puppies to keep them warm.

Heart warming! Let’s all get along!

(via DailyMail)

Breaking news, citizens of SuperForest.

Watch video below.

I’m here to report back on Clean Up Oz Day, which took place on Sunday. This was such a great experience for me. For a long time, I was too scared to sign up and take part in this great cause. Why? I guess I felt a little embarrassed to be picking up trash from the street, which is silly because while bending down to collect countless bits of rubbish last Sunday, I actually felt really proud of myself. I felt as though I were finally doing something. That said, the experience was also a little disheartening. It occurred to me that the following day, all the garbage I’d collected would likely be back on the street and my efforts would have been for nothing.

I’m not sure how to reconcile these feelings, but, in the end, I guess Clean Up Australia Day has changed me and that’s as great a start as any. After hauling my giant white rubbish bag around my neighbourhood, I’m now more awake to what needs to be done, and how littering is a big insult to beautiful Mother Earth who brings us so much happiness and light. I shall pass this on to my friends and all you mighty SuperForesters, who will hopefully spread that message even further.

Yours in hope and cleanliness,
April

In a glass, combine a squeeze of lemon, a squirt of honey, a dash of salt, and a glug of hot water.
The four combine to create a natural electrolyte. Tastes delicious and super-hydrating.

I drink it in the mornings, to start the day off right.

Paul Nicklen, who grew up in Baffin Island, Nunavut, Canada is a National Geographic photographer and biographer who “has been making bold expeditions to the Arctic and Antarctic for many years, documenting the lives and habitats of leopard seals, whales, walruses, polar bears, bearded seals and narwhals and how they are threatened by climate change.”  These are some striking images from his new book Polar Obsession:

Beautiful - Thank You Paul!

Check out the guardian’s image gallery here for more.

Love

P

“The collision in early February of the 60-mile-long B-9B iceberg with the protruding tongue of the Mertz Glacier in East Antarctica is captured here in a series of satellite radar images.

The crash created a second massive iceberg nearly 50 miles long and 25 miles wide, named C-28. The name means that it’s the 28th glacier since 1976 that has broken off from the quadrant of Antarctica that faces Australia.

Read More http://www.wired.com/wiredscience/2010/03/animation-of-giant-iceberg-collision-as-seen-from-space/#ixzz0hcRH81Lv“

Via Betsy Mason @ wired