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TURN ON THE LIGHTS

I READ Lisa Tilse ’s The Red Thread everyday. I am blown away that Tilse , a busy working mum, finds time to blog daily, and more than once...


I READ Lisa Tilse’s The Red Thread everyday. I am blown away that Tilse, a busy working mum, finds time to blog daily, and more than once a day. Tilse found the work of South African Heath Nash and posted these gorgeous light sculptures made of rubbish.

I’d love to work with youth groups, like Girl Guides and Scouts and run programs that use rubbish to create useful or beautiful objects. (Yes, I know what you’re thinking. The last post was all about wrapping up the Guide unit.)

Anyhoot, Guides and Scouts use a lot of recycled materials in their programming to cut costs, but I’d like to set up a workshop and storeroom where volunteers, teachers and youth leaders could come and buy a program that suited their need and the materials to carry it out. I imagine school holiday workshops and doing workshops with groups at their regular meetings. I’ve thought about it a lot - not as big as Reverse Garbage, but similar. Hopefully, without the weekly pressures of running a Girl Guide unit, I might be able to get a program like this up and running for the organisation and its members. It would be self-funding, and in time, money could be invested into environmental efficiencies at Guide and Scout halls, like water tanks, and solar hot water.

By the way, this post - not the idea - formed in my head during Earth Hour, on Sunday. Sorry it’s taken me until Friday to share it with you. Earth Hour, in my house, was spent writing letters by candlelight. Ahhhh. Lovely.

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