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Tag: Monthly Challenges

How To Become The Secret Guardian Of Your Local Natural Space

Posted on May 2, 2022 by Malu

Time goes by so quickly! Its already May! May is my favourite month in Europe. Everything is super lush and juicy green. Just looking out the window at the trees is instant stress relief. My challenge this month has to do with celebrating the beauty. By cleaning up. This month I challenge you to pick…

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8 Ways To Cut Fossil Fuels Out Of Your Life

Posted on April 1, 2022April 1, 2022 by Malu

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…

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Nature Care Challenge: Invite Birds Into Your Garden (Or Balcony)

Posted on March 1, 2022March 2, 2022 by Malu

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…

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Invite Hedgehogs Into Your Garden

Posted on February 1, 2022February 10, 2022 by Malu

Tomorrow, 02.02. is Hedgehog Day! So lets celebrate and make life nicer for them. What About Hedgehogs? Hedgehogs are small mammals with short little legs, cute, wet noses, beady eyes, tiny little sharp teeth, and a back covered in spines which they can curl up into for protection, kind of like a draw string bag….

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New Year’s Challenge 2022: Can You Function Without A Car?

Posted on January 1, 2022February 10, 2022 by Malu

Happy Gnu Year! Last January I chose a big topic of Veganism as a bigger challenge, that maybe needed a bit more time than just a month to get into. So this year I wanted to do something similarly big-deal and more difficult for many. Climate change is not slowing down, so let’s tackle one…

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Nature Care Challenge | December 2021: Recycle Your Phone

Posted on December 1, 2021February 1, 2022 by Malu

Take a look in that junk drawer of yours. Any old phones in there? If you are an average westerner, chances are, there are about 4 such devices in there. You might still have that old indestructible one from the late 90’s, and it still works! There might be the smartphone with the broken screen,…

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Nature Care Challenge | November 2021: Let the Tea Loose!

Posted on November 1, 2021 by Malu

It is now cool and wet and dark and all I want to do is curl up with lots of blankets, read books and sip on tea. And that made me come up with this month’s, very simple challenge: This month, I challenge you to stop buying tea prepackaged in bags, switch to loose tea…

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Nature Care Challenge | October 2021: Make a Shelter for Small Animals.

Posted on October 1, 2021March 2, 2022 by Malu

Here in Europe, winter is sending polite little reminders of it coming to see us soon-ish. The trees are still green but the nights are getting pretty cold already. Soon the leaves will be falling and covering everything, protecting the micro life below from the harshest frost (Little nudge not to rake leaves unless necessary)….

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Nature Care Challenge | April 2021: Quit Fast Fashion

Posted on April 1, 2021October 18, 2021 by Malu

Hello lovely people! So Germany, where I live, has been on partial lock down since almost half a year now. Everything being closed, one would think, should make Shop Stop very easy. And still I found myself seduced by pretty things on the internet and buying them. And then I got scammed. Not a big…

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Nature Care Challenge | March 2021: Guerilla Gardening

Posted on March 1, 2021February 10, 2022 by Malu

The pandemic is still here! Depending where you live, you might not be able to anything really. Here in Germany, the sun suddenly came out and declared springtime. Everyone is out and taking walks. They pass by my mothers garden, which is now again filled with crocusses, snowdrops and “winterlings” as they are called in…

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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 nature care challenge with environmentally friendly lifestyle choices of habits for you to try for 30 days and, if you like, let it stick with you for longer, maybe even for life.

Lots of little droplets make up the largest ocean.

Are you absolutely unable to do the current challenge? Or maybe you are underwhelmed with the challenge and want an extra one? Check out the previous challenges to see if there is something you would like to try.

The challenges  make up the major part in the flow of 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.

Do you want to set next month’s sustainability challenge?

Contact me and pitch your challenge to me. It might be up next month. You can either write the whole challenge, and why we should do it, or just give me an idea for something to look into.

All Monthly Challenges
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