CREATION : 875 SAME CLOTHES EVERYDAY When I first CREATION : 875 SAME CLOTHES EVERYDAY When I first put on this outfit five months ago I didn't imagine back then I would be wearing it everyday for the rest of my life. I started doing it as a reaction to my growing awareness of the damage we are all collectively doing to our planet by dumping billions of textile garments into Landfills each year. 3.6 Kilos of greenhouse gases are released into the environment for every kilo of textile garments we discard and send to the landfill. This harmful environmental impact occurs when the garments start to decompose and release the gases. Charity shops are overflowing with discarded clothing and often can't cope with the volumes of clothing they receive and have no option but to send excess stock to landfills. It's a significant problem and it's sadly getting worse. The simple solution is to buy less clothes, wear the clothes you do have for longer and more frequently until they start to wear out, repair them when they need some tender loving care and above all else don't just discard them into Landfills. ๐ŸŒ ๐Ÿ™Œ๐Ÿป #sameclotheseveryday
CREATION : 874 LOVEHEARTS Just because it was tha CREATION : 874 LOVEHEARTS Just because it was that sort of day. Perhaps it was the love in the Waiheke spring air. Just for everyone who loves Lovehearts.... โค๏ธ Even seagrass ones And thank you... to the driver of jeep and film maker who were filming the latest Gulf NZ TV detective series.... And when driving up along the beach detoured around my Lovehearts towards the ocean.... and gave me a smile and a big thumbs up ๐Ÿ‘๐Ÿป Perhaps they were feeling the love too.
CREATION : 873 SAME CLOTHES EVERYDAY I am wearing CREATION : 873 SAME CLOTHES EVERYDAY I am wearing the same clothes everyday. And will continue to do so for the rest of my life, patch repairing them as I go or until they fall apart. With an announcement from Oxfam that the UK alone is sending 13 million clothing items into the landfill every week (then do a quick global calculation) it's probably pretty obvious why I am doing this. ๐ŸŒ ๐Ÿ™Œ๐Ÿป #sameclotheseveryday
CREATION :872 SURPRISE BIRTHDAY It was my buddy CREATION :872 SURPRISE BIRTHDAY It was my buddy Gaia's 10th birthday yesterday and her mum asked if I would help at the party to make a Happy Birthday Gaia with the Waiheke Island seagrass. It was amazing having all the little helpers. I loved the smiley heart they did. I did the heart outline and they asked me if they could fill it in with shells. I said 'Of course, Go for it'. And they did. So much fun. HAPPY BIRTHDAY GAIA ๐ŸŽˆ
CREATION : 871 SAME CLOTHES EVERYDAY I have been CREATION : 871 SAME CLOTHES EVERYDAY I have been wearing the same clothes everyday for about four months now... Someone asked me yesterday how I was getting on and I looked at myself up and down and said 'fine I think.' I showed them some holes in my shorts that I had repaired and they said 'that's lovely' and took a photograph. Am doing this minimal clothing footprint because I, like many others, feel too much clothing is purchased and then discarded into our Landfills without thinking, or even realising the harm decomposing clothing does, creating methane a harmful toxic gas which contributes to global warming, as well as other toxins which leach into the soil and groundwater. Clothing being our world's second biggest polluter. I really care about our planet and though like all of us I am not perfect and there is so much more I can do in terms of protecting our environment, I can absolutely do this. ๐ŸŒ ๐Ÿ™Œ๐Ÿป #sameclotheseveryday
CREATION : 870 BUNCH OF CIRCLES Today everything CREATION : 870 BUNCH OF CIRCLES Today everything seemed to go round and round in circles. It was that sort of day. And I do love circles. Round and smooth with no angular edges and best of all they can roll around ... Circles are generally ace. Imagine driving a car with square wheels. This one's especially for @neil_frankel โญ•
CREATION: 869 SAME CLOTHES EVERYDAY I'm wearing t CREATION: 869 SAME CLOTHES EVERYDAY I'm wearing the same clothes everyday. As too much clothing ends up in our landfills. And these items have just had a little handwash ๐Ÿ–๐Ÿป Which is why they are wet. Here's hoping for some sunshine so I can eco dry them with solar power. ๐ŸŒž Happy Saturday everyone or late Friday evening depending on where you are in the world. ๐ŸŒ ๐Ÿ™Œ๐Ÿป #sameclotheseveryday
CREATION: 868 CHOCOLATE FINGERS Today when I fini CREATION: 868 CHOCOLATE FINGERS Today when I finished my mandala I thought the ray panels looked a little bit like chocolate fingers. It's funny what you can see in seagrass. Perhaps I was just hungry. The horse and rider was lovely to find gently trotting past while Dafna was photographing from the ocean side. Often dogs will run right over the top, which is very understandable. I would do the same if I was a dog and it's just seagrass after all, but the rider kindly navigated her horse around the mandala with a smile.
CREATION: 867 SAME CLOTHES EVERYDAY I wonder if t CREATION: 867 SAME CLOTHES EVERYDAY I wonder if this seems repetitive now? Everyday I'm wearing the same clothes and everyday the composition is a little bit different. Individuality and change is important even in things that stay the same. That may sound like an oxymoron. But its easy to do. We don't need huge wardrobes with huge swathes of clothing to be happy. We also don't need to be discarding millions of clothing garments into our landfills each week and then buying more new things. There are a lot of things we don't need to be doing, but wo do need to be thinking about our environment. Even if we think out of sight, out of mind. It isn't really. ๐ŸŒ ๐Ÿ™Œ๐Ÿป #sameclotheseveryday
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