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Posts Tagged ‘lamu’

  • January 27, 2011
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Lamutiki

Anyone remembers David Mayer de Rothschild’s Plastiki, “a 60 feet (18 m) catamaran made out of 12,500 reclaimed plastic bottles and other recycled PET plastic and waste products” that successfully conquered the Pacific Ocean last year? Well, it seems this … Read more →

  • Posted in: Materials, Transportation, Water
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  • November 28, 2009
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Coconut + Zippers = Handbags

My daughter and I had a lot of fun on Lamu island, off the coast of Kenya, earlier this year. One of the items we came across was this coconut handbag. Some had designs, some were raw, all were incredibly … Read more →

  • Posted in: Materials, Recycle & Reuse
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  • September 1, 2009
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Cement-bag Bellows in Lamu

I was in Lamu in June and came upon a metal workshop tucked away behind the front row of buildings on the main path from Lamu Town to Shela. Inside were two blacksmiths, Adam Marabu and Abdul Ahmed, working diligently … Read more →

  • Posted in: Jua Kali, Materials, Metal, Tools, video
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