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  • For a new TV-documentary, I am looking for motivated families that live in Rheinland-Pfalz or Baden-Württemberg in Germany that are interested in living more sustainably.💚🌍✨ • For two whole months, you will be getting a very professional coach. ME! 😆 • The documentary is for the German public broadcaster SWR (Südwestrundfunk), so rest assured it will not turn into a reality TV show 😉. • If you are interested, or if you know any families who might be interested in greenifying their life, shoot me a DM😊! And, who knows, we might meet soon! 😁💚
  • A very simple #zerowaste #farmersmarket haul 🥕🥬🧅🍠🥦🎃🍞🍪, but it's so special to me!! Because it's the first time we got LOCALLY GROWN SWEET POTATOES 😍🍠!! I had no idea you could even grow them in this temperate climate!⁠ •⁠ We also bought this weird large lettuce thingy 🥬 that I had never seen before! The girl working at the booth told us to stir-fry it, and we did. It tastes like regular stir-fried lettuce (which is a thing in many Asian countries), but very bitter. Not bad though.⁠ •⁠ This is what I love about the farmers market—or small, owner-run grocery stores! You can ask them how to prepare an ingredient you have never seen, or where the produce is from.⁠ •⁠ We went to an organic chain store two days ago to buy a bread roll because we were out and I was sooo hangry 🤪! There we discovered ginger grown in Germany! Again, I didn't know you could grow ginger in this rather cold climate 🤯! When I asked an employee if she could tell me where in Germany it was grown, she looked at me and said: "I'm sorry, but how should I know?" That's when I realized I am far too used to shopping in cosy small stores and at the farmers market 😂
  • Did you know you can use horse chestnuts 🌰 (=the non-edible chestnuts) AKA buckeyes AKA conkers as laundry detergent? 🧼👖✨💚 • Just like soap nuts, buckeyes belong to the “soapberry family” and contain saponines (“sapo” is Latin for soap), a natural surfactant. Fun fact—horse chestnuts are NOT related to the edible chestnuts. You can look both of them up on Wikipedia and look at the pictures there to see how to tell them apart 🌰🔍. • So if you happen to live in a temperate climate zone, chances are there are horse chestnut trees 🌳🌰 in your parks! Yes, there is free, all-natural, locally grown laundry detergent literally lying on the streets around September and October 😍! • Check out the 👉link in bio👈 for the tutorial and the FAQ!!
  • You might know @robjgreenfield as the Dude Making A Difference (title of his book 😉), or as the activist that wore every single piece of trash on his body—while living like the average American! Yes, that's 4.5 pounds of trash he added to his trash suit every day (swipe to see how that looks 😲)!! • Rob’s amazing, and crazy in the best way there is 😆👍—crazy about making a difference in this messed up world, crazy about getting people to think about sustainability, crazy about showing all of us that yes, it might sound radical, but it can be done! • Rob has rode his bamboo bicycle across the US from coast to coast, avoided fossil fuels almost completely, and has lived off 284 pounds of dumpster food (shoutout to all dumpster divers out there 💚)! So… Just some ideas iin case you were out for a new challenge 😉💚!! • Make sure to head over to his IG to show him some love! Right now he has also taken over my IG stories to share his 5 tips to not just live a more sustainable life, but a life with more happiness, health, and freedom. And he has let me spam his followers on his IG story to share some tips on reducing trash with a simple mason jar 😁! (How come there’s no jar emoji 🤪??) • 📷 @robjgreenfield
  • TOMATO PASTE RECIPE 🍅✨❤️⁠ Here in the temperate climate zone, tomato season 🍅 is coming to an end. We usually stick to local and seasonal produce, i.e. we don't buy produce out of season unless it's on the verge of being tossed.⁠ •⁠ We usually freeze ❄️ around 3-4 jars (0.5L/2 cups capacity) of raw, chopped tomatoes 🍅 while they are in season to spice up some dishes in the winter 😋. We ddon’t freeze a lot because our freezer compartment is tiny. Well, our entire fridge is tiny 😉, it fits under our counter! •⁠ Did you know? Like living small and downsizing, small, energy efficient kitchen appliances help reduce your overall environmental footprint 🌍👣. You've seen our weekly grocery hauls—and no, we don't need a larger fridge. The secret is to meal prep on the same or the following day, so we can leave some of the ingredients out on the counter.⁠ •⁠ Anyway, we have been so into making tomato paste recently 😍! It's ridiculously easy, fast, takes up so little space, and storing it doesn't use up any energy at all. Oh, and it's just so much tastier than store-bought tomato paste!⁠ •⁠ RECIPE⁠ Wash and cut tomatoes into quarters. Blend. Heat up a skillet/pan with a LARGE surface area. Pour your "tomato smoothie" into the pan and reduce it on high heat. Stir occasionally.⁠ We reduce around 2-3 cups of "tomato smoothie" per batch to get ~1/2 cup of tomato paste, and it takes around 5 minutes from the time it comes to a boil.⁠ We add a tiny swirl of olive oil at the end.⁠ •⁠ Tip: We have also tried frying some onions in a bit of olive oil in the skillet before adding the tomato smoothie and that tomato paste was DIVINE and perfect for sauces! It did have some onion chunks in it though, just sayin 😉.
  • We joined the #globalclimatestrike in Frankfurt yesterday—with 40,000 other people ✊💚!!! • 1.4 million people took to the streets in Germany! The movement is growing!! The first global climate strike in March this year counted 1.6 million participants worldwide. According to the organizers a total of 4 million people were on the streets around the world yesterday, to demand political change!! • Yet on the very same day, the German government agreed on ridiculous and ineffective climate actions. 🤮 • The less politicians and industry leaders are willing to implement change, the more we will take to the streets. Easy as that.

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