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…
On October 7th 2019, Extinction Rebellion set out to block London, Berlin, Paris, Amsterdam, NYC and many other cities all over the planet. The goal is to put a stop to the climate catastrophe spiraling out of control. To call attention to the mass extinction, currently reaching dimensions far beyond the mass extinction that wiped…
At the risk of repeating myself, consumerism is bad for the planet. Which is why cutting down your consumption of things to what you actually NEED to be new, is a great way to love our mother earth better (I’m feeling very tree-huggy today). One thing we do not need to buy new, especially not…
Cycling keeps you fit, while it’s easy on your knees. It makes you happy. Seriously, count smiles on cyclists versus people in cars.It wakes you up and gets your mind sharp and ready for logic and creativity. It can also be a nice unwind and meditative moment in-between to do’s or at the end of…
I just talked to someone who was upset about circumstances threatening to make flights from Germany to Mallorca more expensive and how that is a social injustice. But when did it get justifiable for anyone, regardless of income, to fly for just a long weekend? This month I challenge you, to have a look around…
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…
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…
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…
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…