It’s been more than a year since I shared a vegan food diary with you. I’ve been following a vegan diet for over seven years now, so I can’t imagine myself eating any other way. However, a vegan diet is not the norm in The Netherlands, unfortunately. In my direct surroundings I see things improving,…
Category: Personal
In this category you’ll find all the posts about me. I hope for this site to be platform to find all sorts of information on, but I also want to you to know me and who I am. Hopefully, these posts can help to do that. I share my entire life on this blog, and I consider it my life work. This category is therefore quite personal, but I find honesty important.
Are charities the solution to our problems?
Some time ago I wrote 3 different articles about the charities I personally support. These are charities which support people, nature or animals. But after writing these posts I heard some interesting criticism against charities. And so, the question arises: are charities the solution to our problems? Charities exist within capitalism and so I get…
Vegan restaurants in London
Today, two weeks have passed since I came back from a trip to London. Last week I wrote about traveling from Amsterdam to Londen by train. That’s a huge part of traveling sustainably. Another big aspect of a sustainable trip is the food you eat. Vegan food is the most sustainable food. That’s why I…
5 things I don’t buy
Over the past years I have been surprised by how many things we as people buy. Especially things we do not need, at all. Today I am sharing 5 of those things, 5 things I don’t buy myself. Marketing is extremely powerful and can make us think we need all sorts of things. I would…
My positive impact in 2022
Another year has passed and so it’s time for evaluation, just like last week. Last week’s post was about a huge chunk of my negative impact, all the new stuff I bought in 2022. Today I want to look at the other side of the medal, the positive impact. In this post I’ll share my…
All my new purchases in 2022
Each year I challenge myself to buy nothing new, as that is the most sustainable thing to do for the planet. 2022 has officially ended, so it’s time to see how I did the past year. Today I am sharing all the new purchases that I made in 2022. It’s time to reflect how much…
I’m quitting the monthly news flashes
For over two years now, I’ve been writing news flashes. At first weekly, but after 5 weeks that changed to a monthly news flash. I wanted to do something against the negativity that comes with mainstream news, which makes a lot of people feel powerless. But after two years I’ve re-evaluated and I have decided…
News & Personal Impact | October 2022
Mainstream news in The Netherlands is depressing. It has to be shocking, sensational and topical. This way news gets negative and people feel like the world around them is changing for the worse. They lose trust and feel powerless. Yet, sciences proves it over and over again: the world is getting better every day for humans….
Adopting/Fostering Children
This post is quite personal. And while writing this down, I feel quite vulnerable. I don’t know why that is so, since I’ve shared my plans for the future a few times before already. In this letter to my future self I wrote down that I want to be a foster parent, so today’s post…
Life Update: I got a full-time job!
The last life update that I shared was not so long ago. On July 13th 2022, I officially heard that I graduated. I now have a master of science. Two weeks later I shared that news on this blog and more about what’s next. My focus was to find a job, but keep pursuing my…