365 Sustainable Decisions Challenge

Imagine a beautiful day and a comfortable chair to sit in. Next to it a little book shelf with books for you to read and take home. That's made possible in this public garden. I like the opportunity to enjoy nature, and reuse books.

This drone reminds me of a robot lawn mower! It's a hardworking and loyal worker. Good job! And your daily advent surprise: https://healthyyouhealthyplanet.earth/advent-calendar #sustainableLiving #pollutionfree #cleanup Loading... Twitter Embed Code Retweet text: This drone eats trash to clean up our oceans. #plasticfree #saveourocean #beachcleanup #savetheoceans #eco #ecofriendly #saveourseas #zerowaste #cleanenergy #ecofriendlyproducts #sustainability #sustainabilitymatters #gogreen

How can we ensure that we buy high quality ingredients or food? Catherine Polet answers this question in this video. And she explains how you can recognize from a bought egg whether the chickens had a good life: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BRMuhF-5HH4

What a nice piece of clothing! Of course it’s not meant for wearing. Instead, it is designed by Asja Radakovic to make the gap between fashion and nature smaller. It is her way to stress the importance of clean and ethical slow fashion.

Do you know what urban mining is? It is extracting materials from old buildings and use them for new ones. This makes it possible to save a lot of resources including materials, production time, and energy. It's way more environmentally friendly than starting from scratch!

When thinking about sustainable living or diets, it is common to think that this means restricting yourself. In this video, you will learn why is more effective to stop restricting yourself   and focus on what you do want.   https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dXlwJyMuKIM

What can you do with old stewardesses clothes? I guess no second hand shop would want them. So why not create new fibers from them? That's what this open source machine does. The blue fibers are from KLM (Dutch airlines) outfits. The technique needs improvement, but they're on their way!

When I go for a run, will I be more or less hungry afterwards? You may expect more, but the opposite is true: movement decreases appetite by changing the hormone level that causes hunger. This helps to only eat what I need. Today's advent surprise:  https://www.healthyyouhealthyplanet.earth/advent-calendar

Wow, a walking fish! #Nature never stops surprising me. And allowing this special creature to walk around on a #plasticfree bottom of the sea is another good reason for me to live #environmentallyFriendly! #naturelovers #naturelover #sustainableLiving Loading... Twitter Embed Code Retweet text: Hairy Striated frogfish 😀🐟🐡🐬 #nature #NaturePhotography #naturelovers

Do you want your voice to be heard? Then I have good news: you can so do daily, as spending money, or not, is like voting (see video). You can e.g. vote for sustainable living by gifting someone the printed 365 Sustainable Decisions Challenge book: https://amzn.to/31Hs70S

Biodiversity at home. When I walked past this house, I was happily surprised by the many different types of trees in their garden! It proves that each of us can improve biodiversity and it's beautiful! And access your daily advent surprise at https://www.healthyyouhealthyplanet.earth/advent-calendar

This is now obligatory in The Netherlands: whenever something is built, such as a road or a house, and trees around it could be hurt by for example a truck, they have to be protected as you can see here. I love this as trees are precious!

As a child, each year I got an advent calendar as present. It contained chocolate. This year, Catherine Polet and I have created one for you, which is environmentally friendly. Click here to access your daily surprise: https://healthyyouhealthyplanet.earth/advent-calendar

Imagine to have all these beautiful guests on your balcony! As they don't live where I live, I'm fascinated and love this peek in other parts of the world; the beautiful planet which conservation I support daily. #naturelover #naturelovers #sustainableLiving Loading... Twitter Embed Code Retweet text: lorikeets are any of 53 species of exceptionally colourful parrots of Australia and New Guinea that feed on pollen and nectar and small insects and are important pollinators of many trees, including coconut palms.Show this thread

Great moves lovely bird! I love dancing too. It's a great way to empty my mind. #nature #naturelovers #naturelover Loading... Twitter Embed Code Retweet text: Beautiful Birds

This is so smart: as you can see from the name of this shop, you can normally buy ice cream here. But as in winter no one wants to buy this, they sell warm hats and socks instead. That's making good use of facilities, reducing costs and other resources.

When we do what we really love, we can work on it for a long time even when the fruits aren’t there yet. So, the other way around: when I don't love what I do because there are no fruits yet, I can ask myself whether this is really my passion. #sustainableLiving Loading... Twitter Embed Code Retweet text: My dragon fruit plant is growning well in the greenhouse. This dragonfruit plant was grown from seed. I know it may take up to two years to bear fruit, but what can i do gardening is my passion!😀👨‍🌾

Wow, apparently this tree is 2,900 years old! As is mentioned in the tweet, this tree survived the writing of the Iliad, the golden age of Athens, the rise of the Roman Empire and the birth of Christ, and lives 2,000 years after that. Imagine that! Nature is amazing! Loading... Twitter Embed Code

When you can choose between two similar products, but one is 200 times more expensive, which one would you choose? I would choose the cheaper one. That's why I'm drinking tap water - which is where I live clean - instead of bottled water.

I first thought this was a funny Christmas decoration, but it is actually a living creature! Wow, #nature is amazing! #sustainableLiving #savetheplanet Loading... Twitter Embed Code Retweet text: Today I learnt that there is such a thing as the tasselled wobbegong shark and I need to share it with you allShow this thread