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JJ Cole Community – The people and fun behind JJ Cole Collections

  • Posted on August 18, 2011 at 11:12 pm

Become a part of our community: www.facebook.com We love what we do, we love the products we make and we have way too much fun sometimes. Thought we would give you a glimpse. :)

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Babies in Bloom Store Tour from San Diego Bargain Mama Community

  • Posted on August 9, 2011 at 10:15 pm

Take a tour of Babies In Bloom in Vista, California, as part of the San Diego Bargain Mama Community in association with SDCA.mobi and Mommysite.com. Babies In Bloom has lactation consultants, classes, cloth diapers, organic baby clothes, upscale diaper bags, natural baby products and more. Babies In Bloom is just off the CA 78. Please feel free to embed this video on your site and leave the logo page as your creative commons share alike attribution license. Enjoy!

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The Community Cooker in Kibera

  • Posted on July 28, 2011 at 1:57 pm

What if piles of rubbish could be converted into resources that informal settlements need, while at the same time conserving and protecting the environment? What if organic matter, plastic bags and even ‘flying toilets’ could be turned into energy to make hot water for washing, sterilize water for drinking and heat for cooking? The Community Cooker is a remarkable recycling project which turns rubbish into energy and has the potential to transform informal settlements into resource rich communities. It evolved from a determination to address the massive accumulation of rubbish in streets throughout Africa, while at the same time mitigating deforestation. What is the community cooker? The community cooker uses rubbish as a fuel for cooking, baking and boiling water. It has two complementary functions: 1. To burn rubbish thereby addressing the associated health, sanitation and esthetic issues of rubbish, especially in informal settlements. 2. To provide communities with an alternative source of fuel to charcoal for cooking meals and boiling water, thereby mitigating deforestation throughout Africa. It was designed for informal settlements, including slums, displaced persons camps and refugee camps, where a high number of low income people live on small plots of land. The community cooker is a simple machine, built on the premise that it needs to be able to be fixed and maintained using locally available materials by the members of the community. It represents a low tech …

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