10 People and institutions that had genius attitudes to help preserve the Planet (and this inspired us)

In times of great concern regarding the Environment and climate change, we have already presented, here at awesome.club, various ideas of sustainability. People, companies and even city halls that used creativity to improve our lives and the future of new generations. Inventions that should serve as an example so that we can work on environmental awareness.

O awesome.club brings, in this post, 10 more fantastic ideas to help preserve the Environment and even save some money. All with a lot of creativity and with the goal of taking care of the Planet and conserving it. After all, this is the only place we have to live… Enjoy the ideas and don’t forget to check it out the bonus about recycling garbage at the end.

We all know the importance of bees, but little do we know that some are solitary and seek safe holes to shelter. A consequence of deforestation and man-made environmental problems. But a company decided to lend a hand to these important pollinators and creates “hotels” so that they can shelter and continue doing their work.

Youtuber Sérgio, from the channel Jardineiro em Ação, has several videos on plant care and sustainable ideas. In this post, he teaches how to use green coconut husks, which are discarded in heaps in nature, to use as a vase. A simple, cheap option that helps to avoid the accumulation of bark and is much more ecological than using tree fern, for example.

Pencils have a shelf life and are usually thrown in the trash as soon as they run out. To end this problem, a Brazilian company decided to give a little help. The company Minha Tribo developed a plantable pencil, which has an embaúba seed capsule at the tip. The pack with 5 units is sold on an e-commerce site.

The Centro Pop de Ourinhos (São Paulo countryside) is a space specialized in assisting and treating homeless people and/or drug users. The institution has organized a community garden where the assisted themselves help to plant and harvest food. The production goes to the kitchen of a restaurant that feeds dozens of people and the idea is to start selling and transforming the resources into income so that the participants leave the streets for good.

The city of Teresina (PI) developed a project to support the development of agroecological agriculture and organic production of vegetables. This idea organizes community gardens to provide residents with food and income by planting vegetables without pesticides, at an affordable price. The vegetable gardens throughout the city help around 1,400 families.

To fight the drought and help rural people to produce again, a rural community in the Seridó region, in Rio Grande do Norte, won an artesian well. With the union of residents and specialists, the first solar-powered artesian well was inaugurated at the Juá site, in São João do Sabugi. The idea is to install another 200 units throughout this year, with clean energy at no cost.

Agronomist Sérgio Rocha had support from Fapesp — Fundação de Amparo à Pesquisa do Estado de São Paulo — and the Ministry of Science and Technology to develop his idea of ​​a cultivable green roof. The invention is computerized and works like living plant tissue — it’s made of polyurethane that helps distribute water. It allows plants and various foods to be grown and also helps to control the temperature of the environment.

Ladybugs are cute insects that everyone loves; in addition, they are very useful in the natural control of pests in vegetable gardens and gardens. Knowing its efficiency in biological combat, the city of Belo Horizonte (MG) stimulated research to reproduce these colorful insects. The idea is to distribute the young (larvae) in community gardens, gardens and trees in the urban area.

Our grandmothers had to “make” their own tampons; but after the industry entered our lives, the disposable accessory began to be produced and became synonymous with modernity. Today, thinking about the environment and the health of users, many companies are manufacturing ecological absorbents. One of them is patch_by_si which sells the product over the Internet at an affordable price.

An idea, which emerged in 2005 and became reality in 2011, belongs to the couple Ênio and Gorete Rodrigues. They decided to remember how the ancients used the leaf of this giant plant (it is not a tree) to bake food, avoiding the use of aluminum foil. Then came a super ecological product, sold to small and large companies on this site.

Patrícia Lima is a biologist and created the Instagram account Consumo Sustentável, which gives good tips on preserving the environment. She came up with the idea of ​​creating newspaper bags to store dry rubbish. Patrícia teaches how to make the folds (link) and the result is a product that avoids the disposal of thousands of garbage bags. Simple and efficient.

Did you like the tips? Do you know something that also helps to preserve the Planet? Tell us.