Conscious Life Choices, 2217 Browns Mill Rd (2026)

13/01/2025

The Urban Food Forest at Browns Mill in Atlanta, Georgia, is the first city-owned and managed food forest in the United States, transforming a seven-acre pecan farm into a thriving edible landscape.

Here, residents can stroll through lush greenery, breathe in fresh air, and pick fruit and vegetables straight from the land. The forest is home to around 2,500 edible and medicinal plants, offering free food to anyone in need. This innovative project is part of a growing movement across the U.S. to address hunger and food deserts by creating accessible, sustainable sources of nourishment.

In Atlanta, the need is urgent—an estimated 125,000 residents live in food deserts, areas where grocery stores are scarce, according to the USDA’s Food Access Research Atlas. The Urban Food Forest at Browns Mill, now the nation’s largest free-food forest, is a collaborative effort by The Conservation Fund, the city of Atlanta, and the U.S. Forest Service. Together, they’ve ensured this former pecan farm continues its legacy of feeding the community and providing a model for food sustainability.

25/12/2024

Nzambi Matee is the founder of Nairobi-based , which has founded a way of converting plastic waste into sustainable materials. She has created lightweight and low-cost bricks made of recycled plastic with sand, a stronger material than concrete.

Matee: “I wanted to use my education in applied physics and materials engineering to do something about the problem of plastic waste pollution. But I was very clear that the solution had to be practical (living in Kenya practicality is everything), sustainable and affordable.”

Her company GjengeMakers has so far recycled 20 metric tons of plastic waste and is looking to push that value to 50 by the end of next financial year. The bricks are ideal for building walls, paving driveways and other construction needs. The startup has generated 112 job opportunities for garbage collectors, women and youth groups.

Thank you for making the conscious lifestyle choice and for creating this solution to a worldwide problem! That you may inspire others 🙏🏻🤍✨

07/10/2024

There are micro- and nanoplastics in your daily drinks‼️

30/09/2024

Urban replanting 🌿🪻

Do you participate?

There are so many ways to take action on bringing more nature and therefor more health into our lives.

Don’t wait for the government, companies or others to do it for you and take matters back into your own hands 😃

How!?..

Everyone has room to create spaces around of their homes where plants, flowers, grass and even trees can thrive 💚

Wether you live in an appartement or in the countryside.. there are always options for more sustainable solutions and replanting🙏🏻

- for those in the “big” cities.. their is a thing called balcony gardening, cause you don’t need a yard to have a garden. Check out for more info how to turn your balcony into a garden 🪴

- Their are a lot of projects where communities come together. For example in the Netherlands you have the “tile whipping” project to green gardens and streets. Check out or see the link below 👇🏻

https://www.positive.news/society/the-dutch-tile-whipping-competition-to-green-gardens-and-streets/

- and ofcourse the amazing projects of urban roof gardening. So so many roofs are empty and only take up heat which lead to higher temperatures in the summer and less isolation in winter. Roof Gardening is even subsidised in many cities (Netherlands) and if not, it is a win-win situation for your house or any other building! Check out to see what they do in London and let yourself be inspired 🥰

- last but not least for those nature rebels out there ❤️‍🔥 guerilla gardening! It is happening all over the world that people started to take manners into their own hands. Check out or see the link below for Dutch projects 👇🏻

https://guerrillagardeners.nl

And a lot more projects all around the world a happening right now!

So, how are you going to make a difference and stop being independent to create a more sustainable and green life for yourself and others 🐝🌱🦋

How are YOU going to participate!? ☺️

Let us know and share it with us your contribution for mother Earth 🌎

25/09/2024

Jeans 👖

You’ve probably experienced it at some point in your life.. saying goodbye to your most favorite pair of jeans 👋🏻

Here comes the moment when you recognize that your jeans are really old. Too worn out. Simply done.. so, what now!? 🤷🏼‍♂️..

Your possible options:
- Throw them away?
- To the thrift store?
- In a plastic bag for charity?
- The clothing bin?

Throwing them away is a waste and anything but sustainable 👎🏻

The thrift store won’t accept your rag!

How about charity? You’re not going to burden someone else with your waste now do you 🤔..

The clothing bin? Your jeans that have become unusable end up in an incinerator or if you’re lucky they are still used as cleaning cloth, insulation material, yarn for carpeting or filling for car seats, for example.

CHOOSE CIRCULAR ♻️
You can also consider your old jeans as a raw material. At the Dutch brand Blue LOOP, they have been doing this for years. Instead of using new cotton, your old denim is the basis.

Blue LOOP is passionate about reusing discarded materials and came up with a process in which worn-out jeans are unraveled. The fibers are used to make new, strong yarns. These in turn form the basis of the high-quality clothing collection.

With the knowledge that 640 million pairs of jeans yearly end up in landfills or incinerators in Europe alone, a new production method was started in 2013.

Unraveling worn-out jeans is a water-poor process. Using one kilogram of recycled denim saves 1,000 litres of irrigation water compared to new cotton. So Blue LOOP is not only working circularly, but also does so as sustainably as possible 🌱

Will you participate with this sustainable solution!?

24/09/2024

Sweet sweet sugar🙌🏻

Most of us probably know that sugar is highly addictive and that too much of it can harm our health.

That is why we try to consume products with as little sugar as possible. Products labeled ‘’no added sugars’’ can be especially sneaky. Because is this always true? We advise you to do some research into ‘hidden sugars’. You will be amazed😉

We definitely recommend eating organic, vegan and fresh whole food. The food from the supermarket is mainly junk, processed and in many ways poisoned.

You don’t have to make radical changes. Maybe step by step, make it playful, discover the difference and do what feels right for you.

Less sugar is a guarantee for better health and sugar from fruit is much healthier than refined sugars.

It is a very big topic that affects every age.

To gain more insight, we have collected some documentaries about sugar.

Feel free..

- That Sugar Film
- Sweet Death: How Sugar Is Making Us Sick
- A Spoonful Of Poison: Dangerous Reality Of Sugar & Oil
- The Truth About Sugar
- Sugar rush: the roots of the addiction
- Junk food, sugar and additives - The dark side of the food industry
- The Sugar Lobby: How The Industry Hides The Real Harm Caused By Sugar

23/09/2024

We are brothers and live from a holistic point of view. We are learning, discovering and constantly looking for balance between giving and taking to have a positive footprint on Earth🌎

On this page we focus on conscious sustainable lifestyles in the physical form: body and environment. If you are more interested in awareness on emotional/mental aspects, follow .is.de.les.

Completely without obligation and from a sense of purpose, we like to share developments about a sustainable lifestyle🌿

A common mistake is that people assume that a sustainable and healthy life costs a lot of money. What is true is that it starts with yourself and we would like to help with that.

You literally have the choice at any moment to choose to lead a more sustainable and healthy life. And we would like to inspire you in this.

It is time that we turn the scales and start giving more than we take. Mother Earth needs this and our overall health especially!

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