Sustainable Living for Your Home

Everywhere you go, you’ll see that people are taking steps in adapting a different kind of living. Sustainable living is definitely on its peak as people are exerting conscious efforts to push through sustainable living. Apparently, this conscious effort has been around for some time now but it’s only now that people are starting to notice—partly because of the threatening effects of Global warming and Earth destruction we have been experiencing these past few years.

Many innovative products for your home are being released to the market nowadays that answer directly to sustainable living. Concepts and ideas flow in minds of developers; not only are they helpful for the environment but also it brings them an alternative source of income. Here are some examples of new sustainable living, eco friendly products to hit the market today:

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Green Boots Arrive on the Scene

Technological advances help actualize the quest for eco-friendly lifestyle; and so does creativity. Take, for example, the fresh innovation of designer Camila Labra – a pair of green boots. Certainly, we are not talking about the color ‘green’ but the environment-friendly footwear designed by the 23 year old eco-conscious designer from Santiago (Chile). The product has nearly stunned the environmentalists and is also sending waves across the world of fashion.

Camila Labra’s green boots are made almost entirely of recycled plastic bags and have come to be named as Dacca Boots, after the city of Dhaka (capital of Bangladesh) where an abundance of plastic bags led to a ban on their use in 2002. Making a pair of Dacca Boots, as designed by Camila Labra, requires about 8 plastic shopping bags along with some cotton lining. The advantages of Dacca Boots are quite promising: useful recycling of otherwise troublesome plastic bags; saving the environment from the harmful effects of plastic waste (which is non-biodegradable); and saving other resource materials used in shoe-making; not to say of the hip look and style of these ankle boots.

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