Bin Inn!

Bin Inn is here! Well, in Lower Hutt anyway.

It's a mainstay of the Rubbish Free Year bloggers because everything is in bulk and you can take your own reuseable containers. I always felt envious because there was no such thing here.

But a branch opened at 418 High St about six months ago. I stumbled upon it in the weekend and had a quick look around. The things you can buy there in bulk! Pasta! Flour! Detergents! Lollies! Lentils! You can grind your own peanut butter. It is a plastic-free wonderland.

It's open on the weekends Sat 8.30-4 and Sun 10-3. Next time I'm out that way I'll be taking a clutch of my own bags and containers and filling everything up.

Amazing green wall

This amazing green wall on the Caixa Forum Museum stopped me in my tracks in Madrid.

After I got home I discovered this is a vertical garden by Patrick Blanc. It was featured in the Listener in early July.

It seems like kind of a fad, but I like that one of his aims is to increase biodiversity and that it runs on wastewater and acts as insulation for the building.