 Welcome to monthly news number 17 as always a bit quick, rough and polished Maybe even more this time because it's the summer edition from Portugal. All right So this month I spent a lot of time actually renovating this van So it is an old German army van which used to be an ambulance. It was very bad condition when I bought it with a lot of rusty holes. So completely Rerenovated it and filled up all the holes repainted it and to turn it into a little camper Which also is going to be my house later if I'm going to move to project come I'm going to make a final detailed video how the whole process went later If you already want to see something I also posted a topic in our forums where you can see step-by-step how it went and how it Turned out to be with like the interior and stuff now one of the main reasons I'm here is to visit Tamera which is a community in the south of Portugal and It's set up by German people about 30 years ago before the mature But they Well, they basically build it all themselves and about now 200 people from around the world live here and I'm here to research like how did that go or what does it take to do something like that Because you really have to rethink everything from where you get your food your energy. Can you cook on solar energy? How do you get your water supply? And so on the one hand very, you know basic technical stuff But also what's it like for people to live here? Do they still like each other if you're together day and night? Are people happy or negative? So I'm just gonna talk with a lot of people and look around and in the end I'm gonna make one proper video with some Interviews and show you guys all the things that are going on here because it is a very impressive and beautiful place I'm gonna say it's kind of magical. So I'll make a video about that No, wait, let me just show you already a few things trees around Like here Which is Very sour and not ripe yet still need to learn So they built their own lake. So this used to be dry soil And but they managed to make a watering system. So the rainwater stays in so now everything around it is super nice fresh in green just by keeping the water in the land They have a greenhouse where they grow the little plants Like beetroot Devices to cook on solar this one is used to bake a bread works nice taste good They have this big vegetable garden where they grow food Compostable toilets No flushing just a big That was just a very very quick glimpse of all the stuff that is going on here So I would highly recommend to watch the long video So I'm gonna spend one more week here and then I'll meet Matia Catrina and Ben in Portugal as well to shape a pan for flesh plastic version 4 and We have a whole list of things we want to do So we're gonna write time out see what kind of people and help we need and we're gonna Start in September. So make sure to keep your agenda open. So now it's still kind of chill So make sure you rest but in September, it's gonna be full on so be prepared and one special mention Ans was her birthday this month. I do not know aunts however, she was asking for a birthday present to her friends and family and She asked for money and she donated everything to fresh plastic. So we got 500 euro from her So thank you very much. We will make sure to spend it wisely chocolate Okay, so now now we have one final clip from a Tia who is in Spain Visiting Dallas of Erica and we'll mix these sunglasses, which look super nice. So Here's the last clip and we'll see you next month Everyone I'm today in sunny Barcelona and I came to visit the guys at Talares Verica and show you a bit what they're doing and their research into making some pretty awesome plastic sunglasses and Well, let me introduce you to them Hello How's it going guys? How's life? Nice and what is this? To make what again Fucking amazing. Oops. I shouldn't say fucking Yeah, tell us a bit more about these sunglasses how you guys came to to make them how long it took you to Make those two modes and then maybe you explain us about the mold so One year trick into getting something out of this machine that would make proper products this was our objective is was our goal and sunglasses are consumed by thousands so we thought that millions by the millions And this we thought we keep We have an impact so that's why we started doing sunglasses in annual Yeah And this is for the legs and these are fully custom made right guys you guys the design developed it produced it CNC milled it. Yes. We made the design of the sunglasses from scratch We came up with the design of the malls and finally with the basis of precious plastic It's updated injection machine that provides it with shields of pressure to make the sunglasses right because it's very thin the product The walls are very thin of the material What was hard with the malls was to understand the difference between Industrial injection molding injection molding with manual machines So that was some knowledge that we gained in there while doing this Super interesting. Okay, and tell me about this detail of this crew that I particularly like and I think it's a crucial in Designing sustainable products. Yes So one of the things we wanted to achieve with sunglasses where was to have them made with one single material So the screw that you see here is the exact same material as the temples and the frame It has an exact on all screw an exact on all head so that When you spin it will always spin with the temple hence it will never be able to stick out and lose it nice and Well, what's the next step for this project guys? Next step is having many people coming in and making their own plastic plastic sunglasses and from then We'll see what products we design what products we can produce and how many people actually understand impacts of our products Well guys well done. We are absolutely proud of all your work We follow a very closely and well now I go lucky enough that I was able to come here and meet one and two And yeah, thank you very much guys. Thank you. Cheers. Cheers. Ciao