peace love & planet

 

Meet Gina Adams-Levy of Northville, Michigan.  She makes fanciful flower stakes and magical mushrooms from used plastic flower pots, containers and lids destined for the trash. 

These unique perennials require no sun or water and each set of 'petals' is cut and painted by hand.  The flowers have a protective finishing coat but will suffer from harsh conditions and should be firmly secured & handled with care.

   

These perky posies are just a small part of Gina's grand recycling plan.  Her non-profit company,  Peace, Love & Planet is a grassroots organization created to promote environmental education throughout metro Detroit.  The first objective of Peace, Love & Planet is to help children understand the importance of environmental conservation and recycling.  The second goal is to prevent hundreds of thousands of pounds of plastic from entering our Michigan landfills.  Gina believes by redirecting and recycling plastic a little bit at a time we can make a positive impact on our planet.

 

Currently Gina is gearing up for the upcoming planting season and there are lots of ways you can help support this cause like purchasing her fun flowers at our Berkley location or donating COLORED plastic anything, ie, kids shampoo bottle, play-dough lids/containers, plastic Easter eggs, pails, detergent lids, milk jug lids, old marker lids, anything of color, especially pinks, purples, greens, yellows.  You can drop off your donations at either catching fireflies locations. 

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