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  • 𝚆𝚎𝚛𝚋𝚞𝚗𝚐 Could you live in a 7.3 m2/ 78.6 ft2 tiny house 🏡 —on a TRAFFIC ISLAND 🚙💨🚕💨🚛💨🚚💨?? 👉Swipe to see more! • Hanno and I are HUGE tiny living enthusiasts! We’ve been living small for quite a while now. Right now we live in a 30 m2/ 323 ft2 studio apartment. • Living small is often more sustainable because - it saves energy (heating, AC, electricity) - you consume less bc you have nowhere to put all that junk 😜 - higher density in cities can lead to better public transit and more shared infrastructure = more resource efficient. More communal spaces mean we are less lonely and happier (there’s a limit to this obviously) • Hanno and I have been together for 15 years 👵🏼🤜🏼🤛🏻👴🏻✨, and our living arrangements have ranged from cosy 19.5 m2/ 210 ft2 to whopping 55 m2/ 592 ft2 🤪! • We spent last week in this extremely tiny tiny house called “Mikrohofhaus” for a short documentary on sustainable housing for the future that will premiere at the non-profit sustainability film festival @naturvisionfilmfestival July 11-14 in Ludwigsburg, Germany. • It’s incredible to see how large and doable 7.3 m2/ 78.6 ft2 can be if designed cleverly 😎! However, we could tell the architect himself has never lived small as he missed quite some basics (e.g. accessible space for storing FOOD 😉, smart storage space organization, or a bed that doesn’t take AGES to put away or is difficult to get ready at night). • Still, with some modifications and customizations we can totally see ourselves living this small!! 😻 • Maybe not on a traffic island tho. We don’t mind the noise, but are worried about the air pollution all these cars cause 🚗💨! • Our dream is to move into a downtown tiny house penthouse 🏙💕LOL 😻!!
  • Did you join the global #climatestrike today 💪💚? #fridaysforfuture • There were climate marches in about 100 countries (according to the @bbc) 🌍💚✊!! According to @greenpeace.de, ~300,000 people joined one of the 220 climate marches in Germany! • Around the globe, politicians have voiced concern about children skipping class 🙄. They went as far as to belittle the students, saying they weren’t mature enough to understand the complexity of climate change and economics. What a load of 💩💩💩!! If the politicians had been doing their job, the kids wouldn’t have to take to the streets in the first place!! • This led to about 12,000 scientists (EDIT: 23,000 as of now, I had yesterday’s numbers LOL) from Germany, Switzerland, and Austria signing a petition agreeing with #fridaysforfuture (source: @tagesschau)! 😍 • Did you know there are now #scientistsforfuture, #teachersforfuture, #parenstsforfuture, and even #gradparentsforfuture? 💚 • We are living in a tiny house for a week for a non-profit sustainability festival (@naturvisionfilmfestival) in the town of Ludwigsburg, so we joined the rather small ~300 people march here 💪💚!
  • Have you ever thought about what happens to the produce that doesn't fit the supermarket norms (often called #uglyfruitandveg)? Often they don't even get harvested, but are left to rot on the fields!⁣ •⁣ 800 MILLION people still suffer from hunger worldwide 💔. According to the United Nations, we could feed them more than twice over with the food that is wasted globally! (source: @natgeo)⁣ ⁣•⁣ The reasons we waste so much perfectly edible food ranges from esthetics to not profitable enough (selling “ugly” produce at a discounted price may mean you sell less of the “pretty produce”), to “standard sizes are easier to handle in the kitchen”, to trade regulations (e.g. the ridiculously meticulous EU regulations, where they go as far as to check tomatoes with color charts 😳).⁣ ⁣•⁣ We got this crate full of "imperfect" potatoes 🥔 and carrots 🥕 back in December when @lars.walther.official and @frau_falter visited us to record an episode for the @officalveggieworld podcast 💚! The 🥔+🥕 are long gone, but have left us even more determined to not waste food and to talk about food waste. What do you do to not waste food? Share your tips below so we can fight #foodwaste together 💪!⁣ •⁣ MY TIPS⁣ ► Resist the urge to fill up your fridge⁣ ► Make a shopping list to buy only the amount you need⁣ ► Don’t blindly trust the best before dates! Check the food before you toss it!⁣ ► Use up what’s about to spoil first⁣ #LoveFoodHateWaste⁣
  • Eeeek, I just got a copy of the Traditional Chinese edition of my book “Zero Waste” 「零廢棄」😆😍💚💚💚!! • The Traditional Chinese edition is now available in bookstores across Taiwan for NT$ 350, but you can of course choose to get the ebook 😉! • Some of you have asked me how to get it in North America or Europe, and I’m afraid I don’t know yet! I know getting foreign books can be a hassle, so I will talk to the publisher (Apocalypse Press) to see what options there are. • Some of you asked me if I translated the book myself. Well, I wish LOL 😝! I do speak Mandarin (my parents are from Taiwan), but on a very basic level. Definitely not enough to pull of a translation! • The book has a Taiwanese #zerowaste movement index and even a coupon for the ZW shop @unpackaged.tw and @simple.ecolife 😍! I’m also very honored @unpackaged.tw wrote the foreword to my book 💚💚💚!! Thanks so much ☺️💕!!
  • We went on a writing retreat (aka to my in-laws’ place in the middle of nowhere 🤪). We didn’t want them to pamper us (they did anyway obviously LOL), so we tried to keep up our cooking routine. • My in-laws live in a small town on the country side in Germany. We didn’t bring too much food (a cloth bag full of lentils and another full of chickpeas) because we also wanted to test out if we’d be able to live zero waste there. • We were pleasantly surprised 😸!! By what we had heard beforehand we thought we’d have to buy organic produce in plastic from the only supermarket, if they even had any! • In fact, there is a tiny farmers market with two produce vendors, one of which sells nothing but potatoes 🥔😂. The other produce vendor happened to be an organic farmer 👩‍🌾! They sold what they grew themselves, produce from another local organic farmer they were friends with, and some non-seasonal, non-local produce (reselling is the norm at German farmers markets). • So this is what we bought from the farmers market plus a (non-organic) bakery close by because we don’t have access to organic bread 🥖 without a car. We don’t usually buy bell pepper off-season, but our in laws always have bell pepper at home, so we thought this way the bell pepper will at least be organic and plastic-free. • The next place to buy bulk dry goods is in the next city about 40 mins away by car 🚗 or 1h by public transportation 🚌. So yes, we could TOTALLY live zero waste in this town! In fact, we wouldn’t even have to change our routines! • We’d go to the farmers market once a week for fresh foods—just like we do now! And just like now we’d restock the dry goods only every 4-8 weeks when we have business in the city anyway. Most people in this small town go to the city regularly anyway, for work or leisure (e.g. to go see a movie or go shopping)! • Hanno’s mom even bought vegan organic PLASTIC-FREE products for us in the only supermarket there (a big chain)! MIND. BLOWN 🤯!! • We told everyone in Hannos family who’d listen including his grandma about how lucky they were to have this kind of access 😍! We tried to encourage them to go to the farmers market to support that local organic farm!! 😆💚
  • #JARSPIRATION 😍😍!! Or maybe even #jarporn? 🤣 I cannot believe there still isn’t a jar emoji 🤣?? Who’s in favor of a jar emoji 🙋‍♀️🙋‍♂️?? • This beautiful shot is a repost from my friend @conscious_cooking! She’s also the editor of the eZine #plasticfreefoodie (all proceeds go to NGOs that fight plastic in the oceans 🌊💚💪) and one of my big food inspirations!! • I’m sorry to say I’m not really into cooking. Don’t get me wrong, I love to eat (quite the glutton here 😝), just not into work-related food transformation part. Too bad Hanno (my partner in crime) is the same! • However, @conscious_cooking’s passion is so contagious, it helps us stay motivated to put in the work to transform ingredients and into yummy, earth-friendly 🌍💕 food!! I e-flip through my digital copies of #plasticfreefoodie and @conscious_cooking’s IG Feed all the time to stay inspired! • Repost @conscious_cooking ・・・ Jarspiration. I love my collection of jars, and am always looking for options to purchase food in bulk / without packaging. Here's part of the contents in my cupboard (shown in stories) including kombu #seaweed from @4thstreetfoodcoop and #tcm Chinese herbs from Chinatown. My latest find is the multi-colored #popcorn from @wholefoods for $1.99/lb which is amazing for organic 🌿 I'll be checking out @sullivanteashop this weekend thanks to @thehungrychickpea and I'm always inspired by @_wastelandrebel_ @aniahimsa and @shisodelicious @chefcarla_c @zerowastebali with their #plasticfree missions 🌿 And don't forget to follow @plasticfreefoodie for more shared inspo 🌟 . . . #yommme #ThePlantifulPlate #plasticfreefoodie

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