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  • If you don’t already follow @thegirlgonegreen, head over NOW 😻! I‘m so impressed by this EPIC mermaid costume she made to raise awareness for the plastic pollution in the ocean 🌊!! You go girl!!! 🧜‍♀️💪🌊💚 • And don’t forget to read her original caption below! It’s 😍💯 • Repost @thegirlgonegreen ・・・ Part of your world . . . A plastic bag is used on average for 12 minutes. Only to end up in my sea. I used to collect gadgets and gizmos aplenty. I even had whozits and whatzits galore. But now I care, I don’t want thingamabobs. They’re killing my friends and polluting my reefs. I ask you, please, keep your bags in YOUR world. Not mine 🌊 #endplasticpollution #saynotoplastic Outfit: @manuela_baron Photography: @kalynna_thompson_photography
  • Can you spot anything different in this week’s #zerowaste #groceryhaul? 😜 • Well, well, well. The #farmersmarket just so happens to be right next to the Christmas market. And this means: CARAMELIZED ALMONDS!!! 😈 ’Tis this time of year again after all. You know, the overindulge-on-caramelized-almonds time of year, duh! 😂 • We even found a stall that used #organic almonds (not organic sugar though, but they did state their caramelized almonds were “low sugar"). We also got some (organic) caramelized cashews. And a vegan date bar from the organic baker. 😋 • We don’t usually buy the date bar because they put them on plastic sheets so they don’t stick to one another. However, they said they had a hunch we were coming so they set two bars aside without the plastic sheets for us ☺️💚. Well, one went to another customer, but we got the other one! It’s always nice to see that our actions do have an impact, even if it’s small or slow sometimes. I firmly believe it does help to move things into the right direction!! • Oh right, we didn’t just buy sweet stuff, but we also bought produce, right LOL 🤪! Nothing out of the ordinary there, just whatever the organic farmers grew themselves. Except for the shiitake mushrooms (grown in Germany) and the ginger (imported from abroad). We plan to make the traditional dish shiitake and Napa cabbage (香菇白菜) with it!
  • One of the biggest cause of the poor environmental state of this planet is #overconsumption. • By cluttering our lives with stuff we drain the limited resources we have. How about this holiday season, we don’t buy anything (or we’ll, less 😉) and instead #makesmthg out of what we already have? • All it takes is an idea and some elbow grease 😁! And you know what? I’m actually not very skilled at making things, but I always have a lot of fun 😝!! • Inspired by @makesmthng, a @greenpeace campaign, I thought I will make plants 🌱 my holiday theme! I have always wanted to make a plant terrarium in a jar (I have so many jars LOL 😂)!! I have no idea how to make one yet, but that’s not gonna hold this one back 🤪! • Any tips on how to make one? And what will you make this holiday season? 📷 @makesmthng 💚
  • This is our vegan and almost completely #plasticfree #zerowaste advent calendar!! Whoohoo!! 😎🎉 • Well, like many people on this planet Hanno and I don’t actually celebrate Christmas. So we usually only have an advent calendar if it was gifted to us. • This year, we got a hand-crafted, vegan refillable advent calendar after our #TrashTalk at @ruhrunibochum hosted by @astarub 💕!! They even said they tried to keep the look as well as the content as neutral as possible and not too “Christmassy” because they didn’t just want to assume we were Christian ❤️! • This means so much to me in particular because most people around me just assume everyone celebrates Christmas. Well, we kind of did, but only because growing up, my immigrant family was hardly ever able to get days off to celebrate the holidays important to us like Lunar New Year. So my very pragmatic parents just made Christmas our obligatory family fun time 😝. And one year, my Christmas present was a book on traditional Chinese holidays 😂. • Back to the calendar! It consists of twigs, fabric scraps hand-sewn (!) into bags, and compostable linen strings. So it can either be refilled, or completely reused 💚! • It is filled with: ► Vegan chocolate ► Seeds (non invasive herbs like thyme, oregano, rosemary, etc.) ► An escape room coupon ► Homemade scented oils (in reused plastic bottles, hence not completely plastic-free, but definitely ZW in my book 😉) ► Teas ► A small snow globe ► A small towel ► Spices • Yes, I’ve already “unboxed” the whole advent calendar 🙈. But only to make a youtube video to spread some inspiration 😇🤪, nothing to do with curiosity AT ALL! • 👉 Link to more holiday tips in bio, the video is in German tho
  • We have been busy and hardly been home the last two weeks, so we have no weekly #zerowaste #groceryhaul I could share with you 🙈. • Instead, I want to share this gorgeous veggie spread by Sara @shisodelicious, one of my favorite instagrammers!! 😍🤤 Her food photography is so on point she makes me drool onto my screen LOL 😝 You HAVE to check out Sara’s gorgeous food spreads 😍!! • Sara‘s is also a #lowwaste warrior and has just published her (vegetarian, not vegan) cookbook “Bento Power”! I’m so honored to have received a copy and have already bookmarked several recipes 💕. • 2018 is almost over and I am trying to take a step back to reset my life. 2018 has been a crazy year for us. We have been swamped with work (which isn’t necessarily a bad thing, I’m in fact extremely grateful I have more opportunities than capacities) and constantly on the road for talks and other work-related appointments. • What’s ironic tho is the fact that we don’t really like to be on the road, or this busy busy lifestyle. Everyday is different, so it’s very difficult to keep up our daily/weekly routines. Besides, packing my bags every few days really took a toll on me. • So I want to make 2019 a more intentional and mindful year, putting my mental and physical health first and my own projects second. Not sure it’ll work out that way tho LOL! • Do you have any tips for me? What do you do when you need a breather or a life reset? I took a break from IG for a few days and I try to squeeze in yoga and meditation as often as I can, and I make tons of lists! So many I often lose track of them 🙈.
  • Thank you so much @esra_ertan for sending me your #handkerchiefs ☺️💕!! I got a lot of questions when I posted this in my story just now, so let’s get them answered here 💚 • WHAT DO YOU USE HANKIES FOR? Well, we use hankies for so many things: - blowing our nose - drying our hands in a public bathroom - as a napkin - to wipe sweat off our faces when we do manage to work out 🤪 • HOW DO YOU USE HANDKERCHIEFS? 1️⃣Just like a tissue, we obviously don’t use one hanky the entire day. Which is why we stick to women’s and kid’s hankies, because they are about the same size as conventional tissues. 2️⃣Once a hanky is dirty, we put it onto a designated small cloth bag for dirty hankies (and our own used cutlery). 3️⃣At home we put the used hankies into a laundry bag that will join the next wash. Hankies are so small, you can always add them to a load. 4️⃣Unless you’re sick, hankies do not necessarily need to be washed at very hot temperatures. If you are, you can always boil them in a pot of hot water before adding them to your wash. • WHERE DID YOU BUY YOURS? We bought our first batch at a sustainable online store before we had the habit of trying to get things pre-owned first. (@kulmine has durable hankies hand-sewn in Germany from ethically produced organic cotton // unbezahlte Werbung) We bought our second batch secondhand off EBay-Kleinanzeigen, which is the German equivalent to Craigslist or Kijiji. The my mom rummaged through her things and gave us a few of her old ones. Some friends asked their grandparents for us, and now, my dear follower @esra_ertan sent us some of her spare hankies 💚💚💚 I’ve also seen hankies in thrift stores by the way!! So do check them out or try the Good Will before you order some new ones online 😉

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