Today is Fossil Fools Day! Here in Europe, we are sadly still dependent on fossil fuels, a lot of which we get from Russia. Our relationship with which recently took a dramatic nose dive with their invasion of Ukraine, with one effect being a dramatic increase in the petrol prices and therefor all supermarkets being…
I have been very privileged in that I have lived in many places around the world, almost always with a garden or nearby green space. And I have enjoyed watching beautiful and/or funny birds in all of them. From gregarious gold finches and cute tits in Europe, bright red cardinals and aggressive hummingbirds in north…
Dare I say it? Is summer over? Is it time to go back to work? Well, in these times, who knows! Whatever the circumstances, getting to work on fixing the planet is never a bad way to spend your time. And this month’s challenge is VERY simple and so satisfying. This month, I challenge you…
SAVE THE DATE: April 22nd, 2020 the world is celebrating the 50th annual Earth Day! Every year, the topic is a different one. Last year, it was all about saving our species. This year, and not unrelated, the theme is take climate action. We already are feeling the first effects of climate change: Excessive precipitation…
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…
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…
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…
It is still winter here, it snowed a bit more, and as I was watching a crow rolling around in the snow on my neighbour’s roof, I wondered about all the animals having tho search for food in the snow. While many species ignore the topic completely by hibernating, that is not an option for…
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…