More than 3 years ago I wrote a post called: how to make sustainable food choices. It’s a step by step guide for making the most sustainable choices when it comes to food. However, that post assumes you’re already in a shop of some kind. A supermarket, a farmer’s market, a local shop, etc. Right…
Category: My Ideal World
When I started this blog, I started out small. I looked at small steps that I could take to make this world a better place. And don’t get me wrong, those small steps are very important. However, after about 6 years of writing about these individual changes we can make, I started to look at the bigger picture. What would my ideal world look like?
I started looking at the structures instead of the actions itself. Sounds vague? I know. What I mean is that at first, I looked at my personal shopping behavior in the supermarket. However, after a while, I looked at the bigger picture. Instead of looking at what products are most sustainable within the current system, I evaluated on what the system should look like in the first place. What should our entire food system look like?
And that zooming out is something I like to do for every category. For a society as a whole, in what way should our food, but also energy, clothing, government, healthcare systems, etc. look like. One day I hope to write a book about this, writing about my utopia, my ideal world.
Why we Should Pay for Journalism
Today, there are a lot of options to gather news for free. In the Netherlands there are multiple websites who offer you news for free. At the same time, there’s also a group of people who use social media as their news platform, another form of free news. There is no such things as free…