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…
Category: Monthly Challenges
Nature Care Challenge | March 2019: Sustainable Drinking on the Go
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…
Nature Care Challenge | February 2019: Wearing Clothes Better
If you live in the Northern hemisphere, I challenge you to turn your heating down by at least two degrees Celsius (or 3.6°F) and instead wear a sweater (a real one). At night, turn the heating all the way down. I promise you, you will sleep better in a cool room. Lowering the temperature in…
Nature Care Challenge | January 2019: “SHOP STOP”
Many things that are wrong with the world right now can be traced back to our consumerism-single-use-throw-away culture. Cheap overproduction drains our resources, destroys forests and other habitats, exploits people, poisons our waters and the ground and covers us in items that are shitty quality, thus immediately broken and dumped. We got air pollution and…