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Miranda Kerr presents Kora Organics

Growing up in a small country town in Australia, with a family that always embraced living close to the land and in balance with nature, inspired model Miranda Kerr to launch an organic line of skin care products. It's nice to see how someone from the fashion industry chooses to share her passion for organic and sustainable products. Kora Organics is both good for you and the planet. The only downside is the price, the products are quiet expensive..
For more info go to the website

A farm for the future

Click here to see BBC's eye opening documentary 'A farm for the future': on the way we cultivate our food and what the future will bring..

Save the date for the next Coco Picnic! Let's share some food, some drinks & the first smiles of spring..

Happy New Year everyone! Be wild at heart, start every day with a smile & be green!
xXx Coco

Winterpicnic II

this year's Coco Winterpicnic was so nice: just a relaxed afternoon with friends, good food in a beautiful scenery.. Make sure to join us next year! x Coco

Hackney city farm

Pictures I took with a disposable camera when in London at the Hackney City Farm. This farm was established in 1984 by locals who wanted youngsters and the local community to experience farming. It is still supported by volunteers and their goal is to seed, nurture and harvest from the city and perform a metabolic function.

Urban Land Project by Tim Simmons

With the Urban Land Project photographer Tim Simmons brings a little bit of natural environment into Philadelphia and Los Angeles. Murals, billboards and projections are included in this two city installation. The pictures serve as a gentle reminder, to the people who are used to their urban environment, that there's a lot of beauty out there. Goal is to make the viewer aware of his relation with nature. More after the break

plant journal

Love this new magazine Plant Journal from the same people of Apartamento magazine. Just like this last one it's full of amazing pictures and very well designed. From Staghorn to Eichhorn , from city gardens to farm life, from dry prairie landscapes to blossoming fruit trees. Can't get enough :)

Richard's salty French toast

Last sunday I went to have breakfast at a friend's place. Richard made me the best French toast ever.
Had to share this one:

Ingredients:
- Bio white or light bread
- soy milk
- 2 eggs
- mozzarella cheese
- fresh wild rosemary
- salt & pepper

Poor some of the soy milk in a bowl and add the 2 egg fillings , stir everything together. Then add the fresh wild rosemary and some salt & pepper. Stir again.
Melt some butter in a pan.
Slice of thick slices of the bread and dip every slice in the mixture.
Then put the slices in the pan and let every side bake for a view minutes.
Put some mozzarella on one slice and cover it up with another slice and bake the whole on both sides again for a few minutes.
Your French toast perfection is ready. It tastes very well with whipped creamcheese or with some fruit syrup or jam.

We had it with a nice cup of Ayurvedic tea and watched this movie. Sunday perfection!

Harmony by Charles, Prince of Wales.

"Everything is connected. If someone is left out of the circle, you're not going to have Harmony".

In this beautiful documentary we follow some of the projects of Prince Charles of Wales. With heart and soul he tries to save our planet. His love of nature makes him genuinely concerned about some of todays ecologic problems we're facing. He spends his time developing different projects in order to find sustainable solutions and alternatives to today's mass consumption. His philosophy, vision and comprehension of the deeper problems really amazed me. I never thought of him this way, but this really made me like him. He is usually very introvert, but talking about these things makes him open up to all of us, I really sympathized with him.

inspiring guerilla gardening at London Fields

via nom de plume

farm life

spring

 Next week I will make my terrace spring ready and plant my homegrown tomatoes and zucchinis! These pictures of 'The Girl Who Married The Bear' inspire me. I really feel like having my own garden now!

Enjoy the spring everyone

valley

How crazy beautiful is this place? a sunny valley in South-Korea. 

Where nature rules, peace and quiet, with blossoming fruit trees.

Green Inspirations: rooftop farming on Eagle Street

Some inspiring pictures taken by Todd Selby at Annie Novak's rooftop farm, Greenpoint New York.
The perfect prove that a city girl can live green and grow her own vegetables.
This is exactly what I would love to see more. Because a conscious way of living, stepping away from mass consumption and instant gratification is not only for hippies anymore.
She even has her own bees! It's a known fact that honey produced in cities have a richer flavor. The bees take honey from the flowers they find. In a city that's in parks and flower shops, where the variety is bigger. I wonder how Annie's homemade honey tastes.. :)

Find more pics on The Selby.

Eco friendly Micro Marché

Last week I went for a quick visit to Brussels, where I ended up having lunch in the ViaVia café of Micro Marché.

The purpose of Micro Marché is to introduce young creators and artist to the Brussel public in a cozy, friendly environment. A place where both authenticity and innovation find each other. It all started with the MicroMarchéMidi project. An open air market that took place on sundays (55 a year) on different locations. This monthly rendez-vous with 145 different creators who sell their work forms the base of what  Micro Marché is today.

The ViaVia café is the perfect place to enjoy a nice, bio lunch or have some coffee. But what I liked most about this place was the small, permaculture city garden! So happy to see this coming to our cities.

Also impressive, next to the permaculture garden, a cyclical kitchen. Designed by Intrastructures, a pragmatic utopian design studio that generates models, tools and products for social and environmental  restoration. The main goal is to develop a 'stomach' for the kitchen in which organic waste is transformed into biogas trough a digestive process. The biogas is then used for cooking and the digestate as a fertilizer for plants. A new way of thinking and rebuilding our kitchens and even our cities in order to be eco-friendly.

earth house

A building one with its environment, working with the elements of its surroundings, integrated in the landscape, both beautiful and ecological. We're still miles away from having ecofriendly cities, but the idea of becoming one with the surrounding instead of suppressing it is the future of substainable architecture. The green roofs are the first step to take this philosophy to our cities.