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Category: Reducing negative impact

Reducing negative impact is the first step towards moving towards an eco-positive lifestyle. You first have to remove as much negative impact as you can, in order to live within the earth’s capacity. Meaning, that if everybody lives like you, we’d only need 1 or less earths.

Once you have that base of living eco-neutral (having no negative impact, but also no positive), only then it’s time to start increasing your positive impact. That’s why this category about reducing your negative impact is the biggest category on this blog, it is the core of an eco-positive lifestyle.

Vegan restaurants in Enschede

Vegan restaurants in Enschede

Posted on May 12, 2025May 4, 2025

About one year ago, I posted an article about all the sustainable hotspots in Enschede. It consisted of vegan restaurants and secondhand clothing hotspots. In hindsight, I am not happy with that article, because it’s actually two things in one. This combination makes both the vegan restaurants and secondhand clothing shops hard to find (on…

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Why my partner and I divide the household expenses equally

Posted on April 28, 2025April 24, 2025

Last week I told you why my partner and I divide the household work equally. That’s all about the work to be done at home. The hours spend cleaning, cooking and planning, to name a few things. But there’s another aspect of the household which aligns with this: the household expenses. As an intersectional feminist,…

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Why my partner and I divide the household work equally

Posted on April 14, 2025April 8, 2025

As you might have read a few weeks back, my partner and I bought a house together. It’s not the first time we are living together, we have rented a place before, but it is the first time where it’s permanent (I hope, haha). Now that we’ve settled in a little bit (we’re about a…

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All the secondhand clothing I bought in 2024

Posted on March 31, 2025April 10, 2025

In the first years of writing this blog, I used to write multiple articles each year about all the secondhand clothing I bought. Now, I feel like the fact that I wrote so many articles each year showed that I bought too much secondhand clothing. It’s secondhand, yes, so it’s the most sustainable option. But…

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Everything I bought new and secondhand in 2024

Posted on January 6, 2025January 3, 2025

The past few years, I wrote articles about everything I bought new in a specific year. That’s because I challenged myself to buy nothing new for an entire year, as that is the most sustainable thing to do. When I wrote about everything I bought new, it was an evaluation. I never managed to buy…

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Why vegan food is usually not vegan

Posted on December 23, 2024December 18, 2024

Ethical veganism is a spectrum. Everyone who lives a vegan lifestyle tries to limit the harm and use of animals as best as they can. For some vegans this means that they don’t eat animal products, for other this means they also don’t buy clothing made of animal products or cosmetics which are tested on…

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Choosing a sustainable health insurance

Posted on November 25, 2024January 30, 2025

The end of the year is approaching and that means that everybody above the age of 18 in The Netherlands has about 5 weeks left to decide whether we want to switch to a different health insurance company. The average fee paid for a health insurance in the Netherlands in 2025 will be 158 euros…

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Why I think buying pets is unethical

Posted on November 11, 2024November 12, 2024

I follow a 100% plant-based diet. People who do this have many different reasons for it. For me the biggest reason is that I’m an ethical vegan. My main reason for eating plant-based is my viewpoint on animal abuse. Therefore, I think I am one of the few people who can say they love animals…

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Switching to an electrical fireplace

Posted on October 28, 2024January 27, 2025

The days here in The Netherlands are getting colder. The other day I was biking past a house, and I could tell their fireplace was lit. It’s a certain smell and a certain feeling on the lungs. In the Netherlands most people have a pretty good heating system. Most of them are still running on…

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23 reasons why we still need feminism

Posted on October 14, 2024January 27, 2025

The past decades the world has become a better place for women, thanks to many activists/feminists. However, today in 2024, we’re far from living in an equal world when it comes to rights for all different genders. Unfortunately, not everyone is aware of this fact. Now that women in The Netherlands can work and vote,…

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Hi! My name is Romee and I live an eco-positive life. An eco-positive lifestyle is a lifestyle with more positive than negative impact on beautiful planet earth. Compared to most people, I live extremely sustainable. I don’t fly, eat meat or animal products, buy only secondhand clothing, etc. On the other hand, I try to help others as much as I can by donating a big chunk of my income, donating plasma, donating poop (yes!), volunteering, etc. On this blog you can read all about my lifestyle with only positive impact. I also have a Dutch Youtube channel (@duurzaamleven) and Dutch Instagram (@duurzaamlevenro). If you have specific questions for me, feel free to ask me anything.

Yours sincerely,
Romee (she/her)

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  • Why my partner and I divide the household work equally
  • All the secondhand clothing I bought in 2024
  • Life update: I moved to Utrecht!

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