eating green
Happy New Year!! Let it be a weird and wonderful year and most of all, let this year be big for the fight against climate change! 2020 we rise up! Also happy 1st of January everyone, it is time for another sustainability challenge. This one was actually requested by a friend of mine who loves…
About a quarter of all our greenhouse gas emissions are accounted to forestry and agriculture. Modern agriculture is one of the big contributors to habitat loss and the resulting extinction of way too many species already. To make it worse, about a third (!) of the food produced globally is lost or wasted. That’s about…
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…
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…
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…
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…
Containering, also referred to as dumpster diving or skip diving, is an activity in which people go, well, dumpster diving in the dumpsters of supermarkets, cafés and delis to find food that is still perfectly edible and was simply thrown away because it was not pretty enough, or had passed its sell-by-date. In the extremely…
Hello lovely people!I’m sipping tea, looking out the window at the snow covering the world in white and putting on my third pullover. The snow makes it beautiful but winter still gives me the blues. I blame the few hours of daylight and most of all, the lack of colour in the food. I miss…
We see them more and more, those pie charts that display the different ways we are causing climate change or otherwise messing with the planet, and by how much percent we do this in each category. Turns out, what we eat makes out a big slice of that pie: Agricultural production makes up 19 to…
As a German, I have always taken good, tasty, wholesome, filling bread for granted. In the last few years, I’ve lived in quite a few different places. One stereotype about Germans that is definitely true, is that they come home from vacation and tell you “it was AMAZING! …but the bread was shit”. Here I…