Today I want to tell you why I donate only 7% of my income to charity. This article is extremely uncomfortable to write for me personally. It’s something I’d rather not talk about. That’s because when it comes to donating money, my actions don’t align with my values. But I think it’s good to be…
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My positive impact in 2023
I try to live an eco-positive lifestyle. This lifestyle has two sides. On the one hand you try to minimize your negative impact, so that you live within the earth’s capacity. In September 2023 I measured this again and I had a score of 1,01 earths. We’d need 1,01 earths if everybody lived like me….
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…
Should I minimize my television time?
The days are getting really short in The Netherlands. Today, the sun rose at 08:36 and it will go down at 16:28. It gives us Dutch people a maximum of 8 hours of daylight. For 16 hours of the day, it is dark. And somehow that has been affecting the amount of time I watch…
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….
Crowd-funding for a better financial sector
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…
Cancel culture doesn’t exist
One thing that politically left people are often accused of is cancel culture. They say that when someone makes a (small) mistake, politically left people are immediately angry and then we cancel that person. This person is then a victim and their life is over. But that is simply not true. I’d say cancel culture…
I struggle with not being productive
Something I have been trying to work on the last few months is not being productive. I have a really hard time with doing nothing. Right now, my goal is to have one day a month where I have no plans or to-do’s, and therefore do nothing productive. The past few months I did haven’t…
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…