Turning Trash Posters Into Plant Sleeves: Urban Activism
Filed Under: Environmental News on September 5, 2009
First off, let me just say that there are some cool aspects to living in a city. Just not enough of them that you’ll ever catch me there. This type of thing, though, is definitely something I’d consider on the list of cool stuff in the city.
A couple of guys living in Toronto, Eric Cheung and Sean Martindale, are taking concernt/appearance/etc. posters that cover walls, poles, and other places around the city and turning them into hanging plant boxes. They call them “poster pocket planters’ and I think the idea is awesome.
Once they find a wall of posters, the two can carve those posters up and make them into pockets to put plants in within a few minutes. Creating an impromptu green wall system.
Even better? These two are showing you how to do it in your town too. They have an awesome blog where they show cutting patterns and give hints and how-to’s for turning these waste paper sticky posters into wall-hanging planters.
Awesome!
Check them out on their blog at this link.
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