Eco-education

Gaia offers an easy way to recycle many items. It is a great way for you to participate in protecting the environment and preventing our landfills to get overfilled. Step 1. Gather and wash your unwanted clothes, textiles and other items you don’t need. Most household...

The bird habitat in front of the Gaia building was create last summer. During the winter we have fed the birds in this area. We made feeing station out of plastic bottles. The activity in April was to clean up, plant some bushes. It is done and we have furthermore...

NO TRASH action in our neighborhood Our warehouse is in a small industrial area with a school bus company as the closest neighbor. There are working around 40 bus drivers. They have never been educated on not to trough garbage out the window and just trashing the...

Earth Day is April 22nd . For Gaia the Month of April is Earth Month. In fact, every day year-round is Earth Day for us in Gaia.That is because we love our Earth. We love our Earth so much, that we have dedicated all our days to work for protecting it, our environment...

Here is how we made a sun heater to get warm water in a sink in our annex. Making our own warm water will protect the planet a tiny bit more, as the heat will not come from burning fossil fuels.Materials that we had already and which we re-used: 1 aluminum window...

There are many threatened birds, some say 77 types of birds in Illinois, which are endangered. As one activity within our Planet Protection effort we decided to do something for the birds around our facility.The most common birds in Chicago are also those who stay in...

Here is how we made a sun heater to get warm water in a sink in our annex. Making our own warm water will protect the planet a tiny bit more, as the heat will not come from burning fossil fuels.Materials that we had already and which we re-used: 1 aluminum window...

While people, communities and organizations around the world realizes the magnitude of plastic pollution of our oceans today, and multiple actions are set in motion to do something about it, the plastic industry itself are stepping up to contribute to those efforts-...

We use many plastic bags in our daily operation. We collect used clothes, which people donate in our drop off bins. Often people put lose clothes in our bins and we need to bag the clothes. We are looking for an alternative to plastic bags. So, we have started...

The 9 planetary boundaries define the health condition of our Planet Earth. CO2 with Global Warming and Climate Change (GWCC) is only 1 of 9 Planetary Boundaries. CO2 in the atmosphere from burning fossil fuel (oil, diesel, petrol, coal and more) is creating a...

WHAT WE HAVE is a world, where materials production and the corporate world can produce for their profit only and without caring for the waste they create and the damage it makes on animals, nature and people. It is largely accepted or tolerated, that they can do...

The 2018 wildfire season is the most destructive wildfire season on record in California, with a total of 7,983 fires burning an area of 1,824,505 acres, the largest amount of burned acreage recorded in a fire season, according to the California Department of Forestry...