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By Gayle Pescud, on July 27th, 2010
Would you ride one of these elephants?
The great people over at EcoFriend explained:
A team of French designers have taken recycling to an extreme by building a gigantic mechanical elephant sculpture using over 45 tons of reclaimed wood and steel. Built as a part of the Machines of the Isle of Nantes, the sculpture has been inspired by the Sultan’s Elephant, an interactive show featuring a mechanized elephant.
This big fellow is a brilliant example of creativity and sustainable design combined. If you like this, stay tuned for much more from the sustainability and green side of life.
Very soon we will be bringing you sustainable living and travel tips: implementable changes you can make to your daily habits to reduce your impact on the planet’s resources. The focus is one step at a time.
Achievable steps, not info overload.
We shall also be introducing fun monthly prizes and giveaways here at G-lish, including these baskets you see here!
So, hang around. More good stuff to come.
By Gayle Pescud, on June 16th, 2010
Because we’re celebrating football and holidays in Ghana and offering our guide for the teensy weensy crazy give-away price of US$5.70. Maybe our brains stopped functioning! . . . → Read More: Ghana Travel Guide US$5.70
By Gayle Pescud, on July 24th, 2010
This is what CNN had to show about Trashy Bags (hint, click the link for brilliant images about the problem): When British entrepreneur Stuart Gold saw Accra’s plastic problem he recognized an opportunity for a business venture — an NGO that could clean up the streets and create jobs in the community. . . . → Read More: Dirty Ghana Video!
By Gayle Pescud, on July 23rd, 2010
Bolga Baskets: Each basket uses 170 pure water plastic bags on average, and about 1.7 yards of recycled cloth, that would otherwise be burnt along with the plastic. . . . → Read More: Trashy in Name Only
By Gayle Pescud, on July 21st, 2010
If you would rather enjoy your plastic on the outside, then take a twenty minute trip to Trashy Bags in Accra where plastic is recycled into brilliant, handmade bags and purses. . . . → Read More: My Silent Goaty Oaty Oaty Oaty Oaty
By Gayle Pescud, on July 19th, 2010
A stroll along any road in virtually any city or village in Ghana invites ugly scenes: plastic rubbish virtually everywhere. It’s one of the major complaints tourists have about traveling in Ghana. . . . → Read More: A Plastic Bag, by Any Other Name…
By Gayle Pescud, on July 17th, 2010
Plastic bags are to the Ghana landscape what fallen leaves are to Autumn landscapes in cooler parts of the world. Unfortunately, this is not a seasonal phenomenon; it’s a 365 day a year phenomenon. . . . → Read More: Rubbish Rubbish Everywhere, Ghana’s on the Brink
By Gayle Pescud, on July 16th, 2010
(As an Australian woman) you know you’re in a cross-cultural relationship when…You shake a large flying bug from your hair and say to your partner, “Oh it’s just one of those bugs you used to eat as a child…” . . . → Read More: To D or Not to D
By Gayle Pescud, on July 15th, 2010
This is a culture where young people are expected to be seen and not heard. Sound familiar? . . . → Read More: Young Hearts, Run Free
By Gayle Pescud, on July 5th, 2010
In high school he told me that, when we were in primary school, I’d called him all sorts of racist names. I really thought he was joking. I couldn’t remember calling him names at all. But he insisted I had. . . . → Read More: World Cup Regression
By Gayle Pescud, on July 3rd, 2010
I started a series about travel blogging that readers of G-lish might find helpful and informative. I’ve been blogging using Blogger at This is Ghana since late 2008 and on Wordpress here at G-lish since late 2009. . . . → Read More: Travel Blogging Tips
By Gayle Pescud, on July 1st, 2010
During my first weeks in kindergarten I walked out of school, which was a tree in our village, because the only thing we learnt for weeks was how to count from one to thirty. I told my teacher, “I want to go past one,” and left the tree and walked back home. My parents were horrified and I got in trouble. . . . → Read More: Godwin’s Plea from Ghana to the World
By Gayle Pescud, on June 19th, 2010
Here’s a piece from our first post at YPWC where you can read round-ups from 6 youth-oriented bloggers around the world making great change in their communities. . . . → Read More: Young People Speak Out
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