Today we have been to the office of Franz, an architect in Dordrecht that works with alternative materials and techniques. He explained us a house he is doing that has its walls made out of paper. According to him this type of construction is cleaner, faster and cheaper.

He gave us some names of people and organizations that work to find alternative ways to save energy and for that they look for alternative sources.

At this point of our research we got information about people who work with food, services and now, architecture. I am wondering how much far we could get if we keep searching for alternative ways of living...

Ahh... we also got our nice outfit for the action on sunday ;-)

Rachel, a lovely woman that seems to like plants very much and work at Vila Augustus in Dordrecht (http://www.villa-augustus.nl/new/index-flash.html), was telling us how is the biological scene around here. She told us that many people buy biological products from Villa Augustos and that most of the products are not more expensive than in a conventional supermarket. However, the bio and sustainable products are still related to a certain "trendy" and would be great if it starts to be more popular.

She pointed the supermarket called Single. We should go there tomorrow.

After the conversation she offered herself to bring some basilicum and herbs for our action on sunday.

Was very nice to hear from her: - I like very much what are you doing.

well... at least someone.

Last month Recycle-x was invited by Verbeke Foundation to mount the installation Plantas Parlantes for their new exhibition called "Green Summer". We spend 4 days in Belgium to set up and improve the installation.

Now Plantas parlantes is totally energy sustainable. It uses a big solar panel that give us 12v, this is enough to feed the pump and the circuit. Also the sensor to control the water flow is working properly (Thanks to Ruel).

Actually we are al very thankful to Ruel. I dare to say that without him this work could not be done. Ruel we love you ;-)

Our friend Michael.

Haute Couture exhibition @ gemeentemuseum den haag