 to Mantra news number 52 from one army the foundation tackling global problems through projects. All right guys I've just imported the videos and I realized that the audio is completely screwed the room that I was working in had very empty walls so that resulted in this very echo effect I'm gonna gear up for next month and use so better with me for this time and let's dive back into it. This month is the make-apartist edition as a friend of mine had this nice studio and I thought it could be a very nice contrast to the usual roughness So as every month we're going to be starting with some news that we found on the web that we think are bringing about a more sustainable and just future for this planet. Starting with France and how they banned short-haul flights so let me give you more for you to fly from Paris to Lyon because it's a bad polluting way of getting around. As you might know flights that do take the most resource and fuel and take off and landing and if you are on a 45 minutes flight you can imagine how more polluting that way of getting around is compared to a train or a bus. Commitment number three within Europe I'm not gonna take any planes anymore from now on it's just gonna be the train and 32-hour bus rides and so France is the first country to implement such a policy and we very much looking forward to see more countries taking on such regulations. Next, in the UK they just doubled the price for plastic bags from 5p to 10p and we know how such small changes they have a huge impact on the demand of plastic because people will drastically reduce the amount of plastic bags that they use if you double how much they cost so it's brilliant to see countries really taking this more seriously. Another view that we found that was really really inspiring for us is from Johnny Himes, a YouTube filmmaker. It's very big on how he hasn't been shampooing for five years just like our fellow Dave Vakas. I have to tell you this reality I have not shampooed my hair for five years and yet those five years have been some of the best five years of my hair's life. No more itching, no more oily hair, no more dandruff flakes, just normal hair that does weird stuff sometimes but is generally happy. In this video he really explains very well how his old hair health has been improving dramatically since he stopped using shampoos and how brands are sort of brainwashing us on reason and weird concepts about cheese and cleanliness in order to sell us more of these products. Products that makes us feel like we need them every week. Next, these are the really peculiar videos that caught our attention from Greenpeace. So portraying Boris Johnson being taken away from a huge weight of plastic waste that takes him from the parliament all the way down to Thames. This is to highlight how the UK is shipping millions of tons of plastic waste from the UK to some southeastern Asian countries and calling that recycling. So this video really highlights how you can't really call the recycling and it's more like an act of dumping. Another little YouTube channel that we would like to sort of advise or share with you is called Climatown and it's in my opinion the best sort of blend of politics and humor and fun. Hey, I was supposed to jump out of this to kind of scare you but it turns out that's fun here on paper than it is in practice so I hope you don't mind too much. Last, I would like to mention how, or like talk a little bit about public conversation about you know how Elon Musk, a few months after starting to accept bitcoins to pay for Tesla, he decided to pull off from that sort of payments because he claims that bitcoins, that technology is very polluting because in order to mine bitcoins, it requires a lot of electricity and normally this happens in countries like Russia or China where mostly come from coal and petrol. So he said that's too polluting, we're not gonna accept it anymore. And you also start wondering, I mean, didn't you know back in February when you started accepting it? But beyond that point, we think it's really really good that big celebrities like Elon Musk start to talk and most importantly make decisions based on the environmental impact of such a thing. And this, you know, we kind of trickle down in society and hopefully will mean that more people will take into consideration certain things when you know, going about making decisions in their own lives. Okay, let's talk to the news from Precious Plastic, our project tackling plastic pollution. This month we released a face mask video where we show the world how we take face masks and transform them into different products. Tackling this huge waste stream that is now being generated and polluting the planet. And massive shout out to Michael for the excellent work there. In this video, I'm going to show you how we took disposable masks like these and recycle them into useful and fun products. Using nothing but the masks themselves, we made a carabiner for clipping. This cube that's also a lamp. A hand plane for body surf. And a planter to decorate your home or office. And this video was produced with Patreon money, so massive shout out to all the patrons that donate every month to make sure that we can do more of its projects and of course one of its videos. And moving on in the next few months and years ahead, we want to try and produce more videos of this kind. So if you do have any ideas or videos that you want to see, make sure to comment below and let us know what you want to see. So in May, we also released the beta version of the community program where we're trying to grow and strengthen the precious plastic movement. With the community program, we are trying to make sure that we as precious plastic will be supporting, promoting and helping to grow the precious plastic workspaces that are willing to help grow and expand precious plastic. So over the years, we've been noticing more and more people, brands and workspaces that are taking, taking, taking and never giving back. And, you know, brands got a brand and it's okay. There's little hopes there. You know, starting with Lashback in 2016 and dozen and dozens more brands taking, you know, all the free knowledge that we put out there, using it, not mentioning, not crediting. And it's okay. They're brands. There's no hopes almost. But what really hurts us a little bit is when a workspace and people, they, you know, they use the precious plastic knowledge, they use the machines that are fully available online and they make their own business, they get their fundings and still they don't credit precious plastic in any sorts of ways. And, you know, we wouldn't care, Mrs. is serving too much if it wasn't for the fact that such behaviors hinders the growth of precious plastic. Because you can imagine how if everyone involved would be mentioning precious plastic, you know, the growth will be exponential because more and more people will come across precious plastic. As a portion of these people, we think maybe I can also start recycling. But if these people are hiding the fact that they are part of precious plastic, there is much less growth that can happen. So we want to start trying to adjust that. And in order to do that, we introduced the community program where, you know, if you want to not mention precious plastic, it's all cool. You can carry on with your business. But we, as precious plastic, will not help you grow anymore. So we're going to be making sure that we are supporting, promoting, collaborating, providing clients, providing traffic only and exclusively to precious plastic workspaces that are willing to support precious plastic. And you can do that in many ways. You can mention precious plastic in your Instagram view. You can make a little section on your website. You can use hashtag precious plastic. And we have made a whole list of things that you as a workspace can do to help grow precious plastic. Because ultimately, the only reason why we work on precious plastic is to tackle the plastic waste problem. And unless we all collaborate together, these most likely will never happen. The more people can come in the movement, the stronger and the more likely we can be to have a dense plastic waste problem. The community program comes with three sort of layers. One is the normal member, which is still able to use the community platform. You can use for things, you can comment, so can make how to use. But it's not required to do anything in return. Then you have the ally. An ally is able to be on the map, as well as, of course, doing all the things that a member can do. And it's also eligible for communication, for press, for collaborations, for partnerships, for sales channels. And not to become an ally, you need to do something in return. And this is all listed out in the ally checklist, of which you need six stars in order to become an ally. So make sure to go and check it out and see if you qualify as an ally in order to get all the benefits of being an ally. And the third layer is verified. These are the people that are sort of outputting the highest quality content, machines, products. These are people that we're going to be collaborating more and more closely in order to support them to become always better. And also to make sure that people that come on our project on precious plastic, on the community platform, they can kind of feel that who is being there for the longest time, who's got the most experience, who's outputting the best work, so creating a bit of a layering in the community for the end users and also for the work systems themselves. And in order to become a very fine workspace, you need, of course, to be an ally. And also just outputting really top quality work. So in a nutshell, this is what the community program is. The program is still in beta. And so make sure to go on the academy page, check it out, try to understand how it works. And if you still have some questions, make sure to post them below. So we can try to help you out and, you know, see how you can become an ally. So let's have a look at a few use cases to see how this works. So for instance, you can see here both in how they mentioned precious plastic in their view, how they have a highlight on their Instagram, you know, positively for precious plastic, how they use hashtags in order to post. And so you can imagine how, you know, everyone that comes across both work also will so directly understand that it's part of a plastic. And in case they want to start recycling, they know how to do it. So really, really useful. Next, let's have a look at your cluster from Dresden. And also they've been super active, cyclic plastic and also promoting the work that we do at precious plastic. So as you can see, they also mentioned precious plastic in their view. They do share always the hashtag on the website, they have a little section about precious plastic and what it is and how it works, as well as making a lot of videos and animations and stories about precious plastic and how it works and how people can start. And this is absolutely crucial for the growth of the movement beyond the growth of the workspace, because in the other day, they probably understand very clearly that the plastic waste problem cannot be fixed collaboratively together as a global unified movement. This month, we also released the first ever special offer where we collaborated with John Plasto. And for every new patron, we're going to have these beautiful screwdrivers handed over custom made specifically for this. And we believe this is a win-win-win situation where precious plastic gets more patrons so you can do more of its work to tackle global problems. John Plasto gets more money so you can keep on recycling more and more. And also patrons, people like you, they will receive really beautiful screwdrivers so they can fix their things at home using a recycled screwdriver instead of polluting more plastic. And for this special occasion, I decided to interview Thomas and John Plasto. So let's have a chat with you. Hi, my name is Thomas from Johan Plasto and I'm a screwdriver from Plastic Waste. And this is the story behind. Thank you, Thomas. Super, super hyped about this special offer. So if you haven't already, go on Patreon, sign up, get yourself a screwdriver and support one army. You may also release the research module on our community platform. Ever since shutting down the forums, we have seen every increasing demand for a place to document our research. This code is definitely not a place for that. We was never intended to be so. So we have now dedicated a few resources and development time to create our own research module in the community platform. So here's our new research module on the community platform. You can only see it when you're a beta tester. So we can add profiles, but it would basically be a topic that you say, can we, for instance, make things from ocean plastic? And then you would hear see first the question. So yeah, we're gonna see how this works. And then step by step. So the first step was collecting material. So it's sort of a whole page that is explained step by step. Yeah, what happened as a progress? So you follow it every week or something, you make an update, just to keep track of all the mistakes and things learned. So we are looking for a few tests, a few people that can test it out and can give us some very valuable feedback to improve the tool so that it can be better for the wider community. So if you are working on a research project on machines and products and molds, and you're interested to help us out to develop this, this digital tool for documentation and research, make sure to reach out so that we can give you access to it and you can help us shape shape the software so they can be useful to many more people in the community. And to conclude the precious plastic, let's dive into the community news to highlight the best work happening in the global community. Start it off with zero waste straighter and the beautiful, beautiful products that we make, amongst others, this very nice injected USB key and these beautiful pens that looks really, really stunning. Next, let's talk about our dear friend Rory that has been developing this huge massive 3D printer, so hacking the extrusion machine to help him make bigger products. And we're very much looking forward to see where this research is going. Next, the BBC made a very nice podcast about precious plastic and the work that we do. So make sure to check it out because it's a very enjoyable half an hour sort of having a look at the global amount of precious plastic. Next, Viva Lab from Porto have been sharing a how to and how they made their electric skateboard using our recycled sheets from the sheet press. And talking about the sheet press, we're seeing more and more development and sheets being made, one of which has been made up to three meter long in Oregon, the US. So it's really exciting to see all this development happening within the sheet press world. So I can't wait to see more in the upcoming months. Okay, enough with plastic. Now let's dive into Project Camp. Our project prototyped in a more sustainable way of living. Now, after a very, very, very long wait, we finally managed to get the containers on the left, taking a step closer to get the base camp ready. So first container set down was actually super smooth. And next is going to be the kitchen. Okay, so both containers arrived, kind of a big deal waited long for this moment. So a lot of tension coming out. And today is also Saturday, which means a little local shop in town sells pasta nata in the weekend. So seems like a perfect time for a little celebration. Next, there's a big announcement for Project Camp. Finally, we are going to be welcoming people to come and help us out. If you're interested to come and help build Project Camp, make sure to check Project Camp YouTube channel because in the next video, they will give you all the details on how you can come and help us build Project Camp. But if you're going to move in and come into Portugal to help, you can still do so on the discord channel for Project Camp, which is currently on fire with development. So if you have some engineering backgrounds or design backgrounds, make sure to get active in there because, you know, all this help is very much valuable for the development of Project Camp. And last our newborn project fixing fashion project trying to fix the many issues connected with fashion. We released back in April and it went all kind of smooth. The video will receive nicely the website is receiving some nice traffic. And we got quite a few nice and important press coverage in the likes of Dazed and Confused, the Zine, the Australian financial review. This is all very useful to sort of build a community and a big bit of a following for the project. The Instagram page is slowly taken off. And most importantly, we are seeing people fixing their clothes filing and sharing on Instagram their fixes, which makes us very, very happy. If you do want to help the project, there's many two things that you can do. One is fixing your clothes or repairing or upgrading and sharing that on Instagram so that more people can come across the project and can be inspired to fix and repair their clothes. Alternatively, if you are lucky enough to not have any holds or damage on your clothes, you can still share and spread projects. The project amongst your family, friends and networks so that more people can come across all this very useful knowledge to care and repair for your clothes. All right, that's it with this Monday News. Thanks everyone for watching. Thanks to all the patrons for supporting Martin out and I'll see you in the next video.