365 Sustainable Decisions Challenge

  🥾 These boots are about to go on an adventure and I’m excited that I’ll be wearing them! 🌍 For over half a year, I’ve been supporting Planet Wild, an initiative that brings back endangered species, cleans up our oceans from plastic, and rewilds entire forests to give them back to nature. 🌿 Now, for their 35th mission, they’re heading to Belgium to restore peatlands, which are incredible ecosystems shaped since the Ice Age. Peatlands store more carbon than forests and once hosted unique species, but centuries of draining them for farmland have left them in need of our help. 💪 That’s why Planet Wild has invited their community to volunteer in person. I’ll be joining them, shovel in hand, alongside fellow members to spend a few hours getting our hands dirty for nature. 💚 I’m really looking forward to this! ♻️ And the another good thing: Instead of buying new boots, a neighbor kindly lent me these. A simple act of sharing that saves money and reduces waste.

  ✨ Today reminded me why I love teaching: my participants in the course on #cybersecurity, #GDPR, and the EU AI Act left informed and perfectly happy! And this made me happy for a special reason: 💡 Earlier this year, I had a very different experience: in a year-long course for MindRefined GmbH, the dynamic with part of the group didn’t work well, and after trying a few things, another trainer took over with my agreement. I learned a lot from this and it made me even more grateful that today everything clicked again, just as it usually does. 📚 Today's session with MindRefined GmbH for the Bundesagentur für Arbeit was full of practical exercises and engaging content, including: ✅ Digital threats in public institutions: We explored the most common attack patterns like phishing and social engineering, and how to protect yourself and your organisation effectively even without deep technical knowledge. ✅ GDPR Update 2025: A concise overview of the most important new developments ...

  🌟 I'm looking forward to speaking at another exciting event: The Sustainable Energy Week at the United Nations in Geneva, Switzerland. I'll give this year's theme a surprising twist: 🎤 This year’s theme is just transition for building resilient energy systems. In my talk, I will focus on something deeply human at the heart of this transition: intrinsic motivation. By understanding and activating the inner drivers that inspire people to take action, we can speed up the adoption of environmentally friendly behaviors and create lasting positive change. 🔗 It’s a great opportunity to share my knowledge and experience with policymakers and other stakeholders from around the world and shape the path toward a sustainable energy future together: 🌍 A just and sustainable energy future depends not only on policies and technologies but also on people, on all of us. 🙏 With many thanks to Dr Alina Mia Udall, Sudha Setty (She/Her), Stefan M. Buettner and Igor Litvinyuk who h...

🌍 Today is World Cleanup Day, so of course, me and my litterpicking friends were out and active again! 🚬 This time we filled one full bag of trash and collected more than 500 cigarette butts. Since we started about 2,5 years ago, we have filled nearly 400 bags of waste and over 147,000 cigarette butts, all trash removed from nature. 💚 And encouraging is that more than 600 people have personally thanked us, and countless others have started conversations about caring for our environment. 📈 The initiative is even spreading to other cities! This shows again that small actions inspire big change. 🙏 Thank you to everyone who takes part in keeping our world clean – whether you pick up a piece of litter, reduce waste, or encourage others to care. Together, we make a difference!

  ✨ On Sunday, I came home from a wonderful conference for speakers and found a beautiful surprise waiting for me: 📚 I thought that the package at my door were the study books I had ordered. But when I opened it, I was greeted by something even more exciting… the German translation of my book, A Guide to a Healthier Planet 2! 🌍 This successor volume expands on the first book with new chapters designed to inspire action for a healthier planet. Its focus is on bridging the gap between important scientific insights about #climateChange, #pollution, and #biodiversity loss, and everyday people who want to take meaningful action. 💚 Even though this is my eighth book, holding a new one in my hands still feels incredibly special. And what makes me happiest of all is knowing that it will support many people in creating positive change for our planet!

  ✨ On Saturday, I repeated my listening experiment. Last time, the response was so beautiful that I felt like doing it again. And once more, it turned into something very special. 😊 As I sat there, simply offering presence and an open ear, a young woman walked by, suddenly laughing loudly while on the phone. A little later she approached me and shared that, just minutes before, she had been wondering what it would be like to sit down somewhere and just listen to people. And there I was, doing exactly that! What a coincidence! 💬 Then there was a lady who didn’t want to sit down because she preferred a conversation. Yet as we started talking, she ended up telling me her story. When she left, she said it felt good because I wasn't judging. 🌱 These small encounters reminded me how powerful it can be to simply listen. No fixing, no judging, just being there. 🌟 I will definitely do this again in the future. Who knows what happens next time.

  💡 Ich habe eine einmalige Gelegenheit für diejenigen, die sich für Digitale Transformation, #Cybersicherheit und KI interessieren! 📅 Am Freitag 17.10. gibt es in Böblingen (bei Stuttgart) ein großes Event mit einer #nxtDigital & #AI Stage. 🎤 Hier werden verschiedene Sprecher:innen über den neuesten Stand der digitalen Transformation, und Tools und Strategien sprechen, die für Unternehmen wichtig sind, sich zukunftssicher aufzustellen und die Wettbewerbsfähigkeit zu steigern. Auch gibt es ausführlich die Gelegenheit, zu netzwerken. 🎟️ Normalerweise kostet ein Ticket €197, da ich aber einer der Sprecher:innen bin, kann ich ein paar Tickets kostenlos anbieten. Ich werde z.B. live zeigen, wie Cyberangriffe aussehen können und man sich schützen kann. 👉 Falls du Interesse hast mehr zu erfahren oder dabei sein möchtest, gib mir gerne Bescheid.

  🎉 I’m so excited to learn that my board game is listed as Amazon’s tip! (Amazon highlights highly rated products with great value that can be shipped right away.) ✨ Just two days ago, I reconnected with someone I’ve known for a long time but hadn’t spoken to in a while. When I told him about my game, published this year by Kosmos, he immediately ordered a copy for his 5-year-old daughter — the perfect age to enjoy it. ❤️ The thought that many children are already playing, laughing, and having fun with my game makes me incredibly happy!

✨ I’m so excited and grateful for an amazing gift from one of my litter-picking friends! 💚 A while ago, he rescued an old cargo bike that had almost burnt down. With a lot of love and repair work, he brought it back to life. And now…it’s ready to go! This bike is a real game-changer: ✔️ I can bring extra litter-picking equipment ✔️ It creates visibility to the litter-picking initiative ✔️ I can carry many more deposit bottles to the shop at once ✔️ And it’s a lot of fun to cycle with! 🚲 It feels very different from a normal bike, but I noticed I got used to it quickly. Bit by bit, we’ll keep improving it, from adding our logo to sharing messages about why a clean environment matters. 🌱 I can’t wait to use it for the very first time later today! #cleanup #upcycling #repair #sustainability