The Canary Project Visited Barcelona

It was a pleasure to meet Ed and Susannah here in Barcelona a few weeks ago. They are the founders of the Canary Project, a US-born organisation that creates a better public understanding of climate change and motivates solutions towards the same by producing visual media, events, and artwork.

Canary has nothing to do with the islands but rather with the birds that were used to warn miners of deadly methane levels. The Canary Project works similar: it warns us of the severe changes to come by for example photographing changing landscapes. Another of their projects is the Green Patriot Poster campaign, that motivates individuals to act against climate change, with posters inspired buy the imagery of World War II.

Read here what the Canary Project has to say about the R3project, and watch the video to get another glimpse into our eco-flat Lab.

Thank you Susannah and Ed, it was nice meeting you. Come back soon.

SOUL Solar Oven available for the Rull3 Community

SOUL = Sun | Oven | Ultra | Light

Last weekend we took part in the Foundation Terra’s SOUL solar oven workshop and built a solar oven which will live in our flat but is available for everyone in the building to borrow and cook delicious meals with the sun on the communal and very sunny terrace. The idea is to bring friends together and make time to cook and eat together whilst using alternative energy. For more information on the SOUL solar oven visit TreeHugger or the maker’s web site directly: Cuisine Solaire (in French only). Many thanks to Pierre-Jacques for helping building the solar oven and to the Terra Foundation for their collaboration once again.

The Eco-Move

Yesterday we moved our boxes to the new flat and managed it without any CO2 but had a lot of fun instead.
For an eco-move you need: reused cardboard boxes, a pulley, a rope, gloves, drinking water, a super-bike, friends & beers.

Check out the video of the Eco-Move here!

Special thanks to:
EspaiBici for lending us their fantastic transporter-bike and to Manolo and Jordi from the Terra Foundation for driving it across old Barcelona; to Sergio for helping with the organising and getting the pulley system working and squeaking, to Leonora for taking the pictures, to Anna, Pierre-Jacques, Ben, Luis and Richard for their hard work and to Albert and Abel from TV3 for their interest… we’ll be on TV! Their series A Ritme de Pedal (to the rhythm of the pedal) the bike as way of transport) starts June 10th every Saturday 8.30pm on TV3.
EspaiBici's Super-Bike





from the old flat to the new flat with TV3

Bike Parking for all Tenants

Part of living the green lifestyle is using public transport or cycling. In Rull Street N°3 quite a few tenants seem to enjoy going for a ride; the only problem: no lift, not very safe in the streets and not enough space for all the bikes in the entrance hall. So we are looking into indoor bike parking solutions and look what we have found last weekend! SLIM by Modular, a vertical bike parking that saves you space.
Last friday the first Slim parking got inaugurated at Terra Foundation’s headquarters in Barcelona (c/Avinyó 44 if you want to have a look).

Slim is a slanting steel rail which holds the parked bike in place without having to use your hands. It’s fixed to the wall and floor and comes with an optional security cable to lock the wheels and saddle to the structure. All you need is your own lock to secure your bike to Slim. Its design allows you to attach the wheels as well as the bike with only one lock as this pushes the wheels into the rail and makes it almost impossible to detach them. We tried it out and it might take a little practice to hold your bike up but the slope makes it fairly easy to fit any kind of bike without applying too much force. Great for small spaces like entrance halls and easy to put up.

Other parking solutions available from Modular are Indoor (foldable vertical support) and Trident (horizontal security support for 1-2 bikes) to attach to the wall and a wide range to attach to the floor.

Apart from designing and manufacturing bike parking solutions, Modular have made it their responsibility to be eco-friendly. All materials and packaging used are made sure to be recyclable. Paper packaging and instruction manuals are made from recycled paper and tell you how to recycle or re-use them again. All products are designed so that the energy consumption and cost of recycling stays as low as possible. Modular developed a service system to take your old product back if you decide to replace it with a different design in order to recycle it. Well, it seems they have just what we are looking for…