I’ve written a number of posts about 2023 already. About my positive impact, my favorite documentaries and more. Today it’s finally time for the last post about 2023. A bit late, I know. Today I want to share all the secondhand clothing clothing I bought in 2023. It took me a while to take the…
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.
The environmental impact of tobacco
In 2024 I don’t have to tell anyone that smoking tobacco is unhealthy. In 2022 in The Netherlands 18,9% of the population smoked. The majority of people know that smoking is unhealthy and that it is likely to give you an earlier and awful death. But still, smoking is not forbidden. So, the fact that…
Zero waste concealer
I finally found it: zero waste concealer! 10 years ago I started my zero waste journey in 2014 and since then I had never been able to find a completely zero waste concealer. I did found a low waste one, which I had been using since then. But times have changed, and after 8 years…
The share of organic food in The Netherlands
On the matter of organic food the opinions are divided. Some people say we should intensify our food production systems, so that we can grow more food on less land. This way, we leave the rest of the land to nature. Others (me haha) say that food production can go hand in hand with nature….
All the stuff that I bought secondhand in 2023
Last week I shared all the things that I bought new in 2023. The goal there is to buy nothing new at all as that is most sustainable. I have never reached that goal yet. However, this year I wanted to take it one step further. I also want to minimize my secondhand purchases. Why?…
Everything I bought new in 2023
Since 2018 I’ve been challenging myself every year to buy nothing new at all. Zero expenses to anything new. Secondhand purchases are allowed, as the impact from the product goes to the person who chooses to buy it new. So far, I’ve failed every year. Buying very little is do-able, but buying nothing new is…
Composting
For about 3 years now, I have had a worm bin for composting. That doesn’t sound very vegan, does it? Haha. In fact, composting is extremely vegan-friendly, as it makes me be able to replace manure. Due to composting, I am able to turn compostable items (like food scraps, cardboard and garden waste) into a…
Why I do not participate in lotteries
One thing I sometimes like to ask people is: what would you do if you won the lottery today? The answer is always more or less the same in my opinion. Most people would quit their job, buy a house and/or travel the world. I think those answers tell a lot about our society today….
A list of all animal sanctuaries around the world
This article is a list of all animal sanctuaries around the world. This article is also one that I’ve been postponing for years now. It’s the first thing on my list of things I want to write about and that list is in chronological order of ideas. I never started this article because this list…
Copenhagen to Amsterdam by train
I went on an interrail trip together with my boyfriend for almost the entire month of September. During this interrail we traveled through Europe by train. We had 6 travel days in total during that interrail. I wanted to write about all those 6 different routes in different posts on this blog. I already told you about…