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Author: Malu

Home Made Sun-Dried Tomatoes

Posted on July 5, 2019June 16, 2020 by Malu

We’re having a heatwave at the moment. The kind where you wake up early, have a siesta and work at night. My terrace has a pebble-floor that gets so hot in the sun, I can only stand on them barefoot for a few seconds. Perfect conditions to dry some food! Who would have imagined, in…

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Monthly Sustainability Challenge | July 2019: Refuse Single-Use Utensils

Posted on July 1, 2019March 1, 2020 by Malu

You already might be a pro sustainable take-away-hot-bevarage-drinker by now, but what about everything else? This month I challenge you to refuse all SINGLE USE forks, spoons, knives, chop sticks, straws and water bottles. Instead, have a look for easy, pop-in-your-bag alternatives that you can carry with you and whip out whenever you need them…

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My Hambacher Forst Experience

Posted on June 30, 2019December 19, 2019 by Malu

Friends, I had an adventure! Together with my sister and two friends, I went to a 40.000-people-strong Fridays For Future demonstration in Aachen last week and since we were in the area, we thought we should stop by the legendary Hambach Forest to check it out for ourselves. Now, if you are not German or…

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Giraffa camelopardalis (Giraffes)

Posted on June 21, 2019June 18, 2019 by Malu

Its time for another beautiful beast and I want to introduce you to one of my very favourites: The “Camel Leopard”. Happy World Giraffe Day everyone! Why do I think giraffes are cool? They are by far the most elegant weirdo I have ever seen. Their long legs and neck give them the gait of…

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Monthly Sustainability Challenge | June 2019: Got Beef with Beef

Posted on June 1, 2019December 31, 2019 by Malu

Producing food and bringing it from the land to our plates is the source of about 1/4 of our planet’s total greenhouse gas emissions. More than half of those emissions are contributed by the livestock industry. And the biggest whopper in that industry is beef and lamb (Poore & Nemecek (2018), Science). It’s Not just…

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Monthly Sustainability Challenge | May 2019: Bag the Plastic

Posted on May 1, 2019December 31, 2019 by Malu

Plastic bags are stupid: They fly around looking ugly, tear into shreds and hang in trees, leach toxins into the environment, and turtles & Co. choke on them because they mistake them for jellyfish. I kid you not, I once watched a cow throw up a plastic bag in the streets of India. And although…

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Earth Day 2019

Posted on April 22, 2019June 16, 2020 by Malu

Its time for celebration! Celebration of your planet, our home, our marvelous space ship! The first Earth Day was a huge peoples movement in 1970 and it has since become the widest spread non-religious day celebrated world wide. Every year on April 22nd, we celebrate our planet by doing things that benefit our planet, and…

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Monthly Sustainability Challenge | April 2019: Dip Your Clothes in Sun

Posted on April 1, 2019March 2, 2020 by Malu

If there is one home appliance we don’t need, its a laundry dryer. An average dryer used by an average European household emits 210kg of CO2 per year. But why though?? Just hang dry your washing! The sun is giving us her energy for free and even if the sun is not shining, hanging inside…

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Monthly Sustainability Challenge | March 2019: Sustainable Drinking on the Go

Posted on March 1, 2019June 1, 2020 by Malu

This month, I challenge you to do something that you possibly already do: Use a keep cup. Keep cups are replacements for the single-use to-go cups made from waxed paper or plastic. Keep cups have become more and more fashionable lately and you can get them made from bio plastic (not recommended for any beverage…

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Bee Friendly

Posted on February 24, 2019December 18, 2019 by Malu

It’s springtime! The first flowers are popping up in the garden spreading happiness and in me a prehistoric feeling of hope and reawakening. Our garden has erupted into a delicate firework of white snowdrops (Galanthus nivalis), purple crocuses (Crocus vernus sp.) and yellow winter aconite (Eranthis hyemalis). It is even warm enough for the first…

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About me

My name is Malu. I am a conservation-ecologist currently living in Germany. I’ve always been wild about the outdoors and can spend hours looking at an insect labouring away at its daily challenges, or a bird building its nest, or … there’s just so much amazing stuff happening out there! I’m really glad you’ve made it onto this page so I can share my joy with you.

Monthly Challenges

We only have about 6 to 8 years left to turn this environmental mess of a ship around. So much has to happen politically, but the people also need to change habits and start to appreciate our environment more. So every 1st of the month I post a monthly sustainability challenge for you to try for 30 days and if you like, adopt beyond the month.

The challenges  make up the major part in the flow of blog posts here, so they are easy to find. But if you want to get a good overview of the challenges set so far, simply follow the link below.

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