unconsumption:

While traveling in India, Adital Ela came across a chai vendor who sold his tea in small, clay cups that patrons could use and then simply toss on the ground when they were done. These cups didn’t create any waste, because it was earth returning to earth. This sparked a question for Ela: “How can products, like people, come from dust, and return to dust?”

[This set her on] a mission to make products out of compressed earth and agricultural waste. A self-proclaimed designer-gatherer, her title is as organic in nature as her found materials.

Ela’s first product for her line, Terra by Adital Ela, was a stool made from dirt heaps that construction sites had dumped in the forest. …

Making a Terra stool creates no pollution. It requires no energy and uses only local and organic materials. If a stool is no longer useful, the owner can simply leave it in the garden and let it deteriorate back into the earth. Or they can add water and mold it into another functional object.

(via Dust to dust: TED Fellow Adital Ela makes products from compressed dirt)

charlenekaye:

All right, we can’t contain the news anymore - I am beyond excited to announce that I’m going on a massive tour this spring co-headlining with the marvelous Alexz Johnson!! And we’re bringing Misty Boyce and Jay Stolar to open for us! Will we see you there? xoxoxo CK & co. REBLOG REBLOG REBLOG!

CHARLOTTE. SHE’S COMING TO CHARLOTTE. I’M GOING TO GET VIP TIX. I WANNA SEE YOU ALL THERE!!!

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