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  • 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.
  • Imagine how surprised we were when we went to the farmers market this weekend, just to find out... There was no farmers market! 😂⁠ •⁠ As it turned out, it got cancelled to make even more space for the #gamescom (supposedly the world's largest gaming event with almost 400,000 visitors). Totally forgot about the gamescom, even though you could see cosplayers everywhere in the city! If I ever cosplayed, I'd probably go as Murrz (@murrzstudio) by the way 😁! I'd SO wear her cat t-shirt IRL too by the way 😹!⁠ •⁠ Anyway, as our fridge was empty, we went to a health food store instead, because we know that particular store always has this 50% off section with produce that is about to go bad. Organic produce on a budget AND you prevent food from being thrown out, 😈🔥 yeah!⁠ •⁠ So about 50% of what we bought was from the 50% off rummage boxes—which is why you are looking at half a pound of wrinkly chili peppers 🌶🔥🤪. At home, we made a large smoothie and washed and froze the grapes. The chili pepper we put on plates to sun dry them ☀️ to make chili flakes that I can use for my #zerowaste vegan kimchi! (🔗 Link to recipe in bio!)⁠ ⁠
  • I sometimes watch these “I went zero waste/vegan/minimalist for a week” videos, even though I probably shouldn’t 😅. If you ask me, it’s all about cultivating sustainable habits—and that’s not something that’s going to happen overnight! • It took us ~2 years to transition from “I could NEVER give up 🧀/🍗” to “oh, we’re actually vegan now!” It took us another ~1.5 years to go from “let’s be a tad more conscious when it comes to single-use 💩” to “holy 🐄, our trash actually fits into a friggin’ jar!” And I think we had been decluttering for ~6 years to reduce our belongings to what some people have called “spartan.” • What I have learned on our (accidentally) transformational journey is: 1. Lifestyle changes take time, and everyone has their own pace. 2. It gets easier over time to a point where it all happens automatically! • Going zero waste or vegan overnight is like suddenly telling me to go run a marathon tomorrow 🏃‍♀️🏃‍♂️! Without prior training, there’s just no way it will be a pleasant experience—and I probably won’t be able to get to the finish line! 👻 • These self-experiments are designed to only experience the rocky first steps. They even make it more difficult by trying to go all in, instead of easing in! • Just like with sports and exercise, it makes the most sense to start small and to move on to more difficult exercises after you have build up your strength and stamina! And of course there is a learning curve📈. You need to get to know yourself and learn what works and what does not. • Hanno and I never intended to go ZW, and we thought we’d never be able to become vegan either. But because we started with tiny baby steps and only moved on to the next step when we felt ready, it never felt daunting. And even today, we have good days, and we have bad days! • Like today, when I forgot both my container AND dish towel, but was so hungry I just needed to grab a snack. So I just asked them to put the bread roll onto my clean hanky! But a few years ago I wouldn’t have thought of that, or would have been too shy and would have walked out with a paper bag. 🤷‍♀️🤷‍♂️ #zerowasteIRL

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