Instead of filling a recycling tub with empty PET plastic bottles, artist Veronika Richterová repurposes them into plant sculptures.
Using mostly the green bottles used to contain ginger ale and Mountain Dew, Veronika cuts and molds empties into wonderful sculptures of cacti, trees and other various plants.
The plastic lemon tree is particularly resourceful and awesome.
Remember when people used to use pencils to write with? That was crazy. Sprout Pencils are trying to start a pencil comeback, with a fully-functional writing tool that’ll also produce fresh herbs when planted.
Once the cedar and non-toxic Sprout becomes too short to use, stick it in some soil, and water it. You’ll be penciling in anything from basil and rosemary, to cilantro and mint in no time.
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One problem with New York City — there is a painful lack of gardens and green area, and an abundance of urban neglect. Brooklyn resident Todd Bieber, aka The Vigilante Gardener, is doing his part to change all of that — one closet-sized plot of land at a time.
