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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DIY-Seed Paper – A Greeting Card That Will Sprout Flowers
Its Valentine’s day very soon. And I’m not really a person who appreciates days that focus on “you have to buy stuff or else you’re doing it wrong” but I do very much enjoy making creative love notes for my special people. And now I came up with a nature inspired one. Make your own…
No-Kill Christmas Tree
My family asked me if I would come with them to choose a tree and I felt like a real Grinch saying I don’t want to participate in cutting down a whole tree just for decorating a living room for 2-4 weeks.But that’s how I felt. I love the pagan traditions of Christmas but watching…
Nature Care Challenge | December 2021: Recycle Your Phone
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,…
Nature Care Challenge | November 2021: Let the Tea Loose!
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…
Nature Care Challenge | April 2021: Quit Fast Fashion
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…
Nature Care Challenge | February 2021: Flush Less
Hello friends! This month I have a very small and and silly challenge for you. I figured, last month’s challenge is a big one, so this month I’ll give you a really simple one. This month I challenge you to save water with your bathroom habits. Yes, it is a very weird one and the…
Nature Care Challenge | December 2020: Conscious Gifts
Its festive season! This means excited cookie baking and decorating and gleefully embracing the music you would never listen to for the other 11 months of the year. And it means stressed gift shopping. Each year we buy gifts for the people we care about. However, it is often hard to find the perfect gift….
Nature Care Challenge | November 2020: Lending and not Buying
Hello lovely people!It is time for another Nature Care Challenge. One of the best ways to preserve nature, is to limit our consumption of stuff. Since we learned about Shop Stop already, where we ask ourselves whether we really need something pre-purchase, I think we can take it a step further: What if we do…