Sometimes it is important to mix fun with a serious cause not just to relax and take your mind on a joy ride, but it also helps initiate the young minds in to the eco-cause. What better way to introduce the concept of recycling and reuse to young kids than by building a Hovercraft with nothing but used household materials that are destined for the trash can! It is not as hard as you think and when the amphibious toy is done, one can have loads of fun with it both indoors and outdoors.

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Until today, I used to think that all those tones of milk crates post their usability are thrown in incinerators or molten and used in some other form. But I’m glad to find that one can use these crates without recycling them as well and the re-use comes in the form of DIY innovative furniture. WOW!

Tasmanian furniture designer Simon Ancher and designer house MADE has come up with some very interesting furniture styles created out of colorful but discarded milk crates. The chic-furniture options are stools, chandeliers, sofas, table, chairs…you name it and it can be done using a few crates and a lot of creativity! Contemporary box life designs from Naty Moskovich also belong to this category. Her designs include very trendy, youthful and easy-to-maintain furniture pieces for your apartment. In the corners of your cramped flat if there isn’t much space to bring in a big sofa then you can opt from one of her milk crate stools.

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Until May 25, Bricocenter, can be found discounted by 25% the paint brand ecolabel. There are those interior, from special local as bathrooms and kitchens as well as special for heaters. Certainly the choice is not ‘extensive as what is in store for a green building, but for those who in these days begins to take hold of brushes could be a good thing to find these products in the centre DIY zone.

I am thinking in particular to persons who would not have spontaneously gone in search of a product low-impact but which, in search of the discount could go up to read the labels of two competing brands and, perhaps, to ask what are the VOC (Volatile Organic Compound or volatile organic compounds from sprigionati paints) and what their contribution nell’inquinamento indoor.

The VOC will feel talk again this summer, when along with ozone and bulletins to calls not to play the kids in the central hours of day include substances commonly used that help to make dangerous air we breathe . The limits for VOCs in force since January 2007 are the first of 75 g / l. The limits will become 30 grams per litre in 2010.

The Catalogue European Ecolabel find the complete list of interior paint brand eco-label for sale in our country.