For years now, I’ve been writing for personal changes people can make in their daily life to make their life more sustainable. However, since about a year, I’ve started to expand that view. From that point on, I also started thinking about what I wanted society as a whole to look like. I started the…
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.
The energy transition decentralizes power
The energy transition is a necessary transition that the whole world is in right now. It means that societies are slowly switching from fossil fuels to renewable energy. Instead of heating your house by burning gas, you’ll use renewable electricity, to name one example. We need to do this to combat climate change and make…
Food Cooperatives
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…
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…