Karin:
Starting to get comfortable now... the excitment of the project has kind of worn off a bit, I'm still keeping at it but because it has become second nature I find it totally unexciting. But to give some idea of what's going on; I was on a detox last week (only fruit and veg) wich made it very easy cause all the garbage I produced was fruitpeel that went straight into the copost bin (balcony compost is dead, it got full before anything had a chence to happen). Spent two days in Stockholm and Uppsala trying to find the perfect jeans shorts for the summer, didn't find any... But when I got back to Munich I found a pair of jeans that I had forgot about. Chopped the legs off and voilá! The perfect jeans shorts and no purchase, I was happy.
Allright, that's it for now... will try to get the excitement back maybe I'll have a look at what happent with Krystals "closed loop project"...
http://closedloopexperiment.com/
Sunday, June 14, 2009
Thursday, June 4, 2009
Daily disaster
Pernilla: Yes, at work every day looks like this. Every hour, actually.It's so hard to think before you do stuff (like buying fancy tea bags because you get an interesting range of flavors and the package is pretty.) Then you sit there with the leftovers. Should of course not have bought it in the first place. Meaning: Picking one big jar of tea, not trying out all the flavors. Not as fun.
Reducing waste is quite often about reducing choice or reducing fun. It's probably about increasing something else as well - quality perhaps, or feeling good about yourself, I don't know. Anyway, it's tricky.
Not to mention all the paper I trash at work. What can I do about it? Not use paper = not doing my work, or annoying the others, or wasting time by doing some kind of workaround.
Thursday, May 28, 2009
Trash bags
Pernilla:I have nothing to say really, but I just wanted to make you a bit excited about Karins next post. She has some interesting stuff there.
One reason why I don't produce a lot of waste at home is because I eat out or not at all. How does that count?
Just for entertainment, here is a picture of two baskets I made. One is made from old clothes, one from old plastic bags. You get to figure out which is which. I'm not saying it's a world saver, but it's fun making them. And trashing clothes that are not worn out, not even a bit...it's a pity, isn't it?
I feel sorry for things that are not used to it's very end. I believe the things are sad that their life purpose wasn't fulfilled. It's very stupid of course, but if that was the common attitude, I think we would trash less.
Sunday, May 24, 2009
Asparagus and hair
Pernilla: I was going to show you a picture of the asparagus soup that boyfriendo made from left over asparagus peel today. It's more of stock really, like a base for soup, and funny enough it taste quite like danish (wienerbröd). Perhaps the 60% butter could be an explanation. Unfortunately I cant show the picture because my camera is charging. But wasn't that just lovely? Using all the bits and scraps, very grandma style. Our waste this week is very little. I'm quite happy.
I'll talk about hair now. I have so far washed my hair with this clay powder thingy twice. The hair is a disaster but I think I must be doing it wrong. The scalp is very clean actually, but the rest is like a rubber mat. But people on the internet swear by it, so I'll keep trying. At least I can shape the hair very nicely into buns and knobs and such. I'm going to a wedding next weekend, so that will be a critical point. Must have nice hair on wedding.
Finding alternatives to products is one interesting way of reducing waste. My next hair experiment will be washing it with egg yolk. I'll try tomorrow morning. I seriously don't think this is the right way to reduce waste, but it's kind of fun trying these things out. (And I already have a boyfriend, doesn't matter what I look like. As long as it's temporary ugliness.)
UPDATE: Egg was not enough. I'll give it one last try tomorrow, wednesday. If it doesn't work then I'll go to Aveda who at least mimimize the amount of plastic in the packaging.
I'll talk about hair now. I have so far washed my hair with this clay powder thingy twice. The hair is a disaster but I think I must be doing it wrong. The scalp is very clean actually, but the rest is like a rubber mat. But people on the internet swear by it, so I'll keep trying. At least I can shape the hair very nicely into buns and knobs and such. I'm going to a wedding next weekend, so that will be a critical point. Must have nice hair on wedding.
Finding alternatives to products is one interesting way of reducing waste. My next hair experiment will be washing it with egg yolk. I'll try tomorrow morning. I seriously don't think this is the right way to reduce waste, but it's kind of fun trying these things out. (And I already have a boyfriend, doesn't matter what I look like. As long as it's temporary ugliness.)
UPDATE: Egg was not enough. I'll give it one last try tomorrow, wednesday. If it doesn't work then I'll go to Aveda who at least mimimize the amount of plastic in the packaging.
Thursday, May 21, 2009
A sit down coffe
Karin:
So this is on the same note as your juice one Pernilla. Instead of getting take away coffe I stop, sit down and have it in a regular cup. This really is a win-win. First of all, it's so much better to have it from a real cup, I hate paper cups. Second, like you said Pernilla, are you really so stressed that you have to have your coffe walking, can't you spare that minute or two? It's so nice to sit alone at a cafe just looking at people and the city... Sounds super cliché but it's so relaxing. The power of now, right Tom??
So this is on the same note as your juice one Pernilla. Instead of getting take away coffe I stop, sit down and have it in a regular cup. This really is a win-win. First of all, it's so much better to have it from a real cup, I hate paper cups. Second, like you said Pernilla, are you really so stressed that you have to have your coffe walking, can't you spare that minute or two? It's so nice to sit alone at a cafe just looking at people and the city... Sounds super cliché but it's so relaxing. The power of now, right Tom??
Market shopping
Karin:
Went food shopping the other day on the markets, one amazing thing about living in Munich! There is one on a square in the center called Viktualienmarkt and then there is a farmers market next to my house every Wednesday and Saturday. It's so much nicer to brows around on the markets then being at the super market. But it takes time! And, even tough most of the produce is unpackaged they offer you paper wrappers and plastic bags with every thing you get. Tried to avoid it, not as easy as one might think... the german market people generally don't speak english, and I generally don't speak german:( Love the feeling of buying stuff from the producers, dirt on the potatoes makes me feel reassured they are from the ground and not a factory floor... hmm!
So this was the complete result of the shopping spree:
Apart from food I also got some washing liquid in resonably good packaging from the store, spf lotion and British Vogue.... Hmm paper, paper, paper, I was in the magazine store and I was contemplating weather or not to get a magazine since I didn't want the paper on my concience. But then I got super annoyed and thought that, NO, this is where I draw the line! I'm not going to miss out on culture and just sit at home beeing a vegetable. I'm not that keen to save the planet... or am I?? Now I feel super spoilt and bad. Vogue vs a tree... shit, the tree should win, non? Well, done is done, and I'm probaby going to keep buying magazines. I'm not prepared to stop that yet, this is where it starts to hurt for me, giving up on hobbies, interrests and entertaining habits.
Well, I will pass it on to someone once I read it so it will at least be to use for someone more than me...
Pernilla: Karin, I need to go to that farmers market next to you. I keep forgetting. Try to say "NEIN DANKE" to the people who give you bags...otherwise I don't know.
About Vogue - We just bought a newspaper that we will trash pretty soon. But the salesman looked so sad and besides our german teacher say we have to read more magazines.
Went food shopping the other day on the markets, one amazing thing about living in Munich! There is one on a square in the center called Viktualienmarkt and then there is a farmers market next to my house every Wednesday and Saturday. It's so much nicer to brows around on the markets then being at the super market. But it takes time! And, even tough most of the produce is unpackaged they offer you paper wrappers and plastic bags with every thing you get. Tried to avoid it, not as easy as one might think... the german market people generally don't speak english, and I generally don't speak german:( Love the feeling of buying stuff from the producers, dirt on the potatoes makes me feel reassured they are from the ground and not a factory floor... hmm!
So this was the complete result of the shopping spree:
Apart from food I also got some washing liquid in resonably good packaging from the store, spf lotion and British Vogue.... Hmm paper, paper, paper, I was in the magazine store and I was contemplating weather or not to get a magazine since I didn't want the paper on my concience. But then I got super annoyed and thought that, NO, this is where I draw the line! I'm not going to miss out on culture and just sit at home beeing a vegetable. I'm not that keen to save the planet... or am I?? Now I feel super spoilt and bad. Vogue vs a tree... shit, the tree should win, non? Well, done is done, and I'm probaby going to keep buying magazines. I'm not prepared to stop that yet, this is where it starts to hurt for me, giving up on hobbies, interrests and entertaining habits.
Well, I will pass it on to someone once I read it so it will at least be to use for someone more than me...
Pernilla: Karin, I need to go to that farmers market next to you. I keep forgetting. Try to say "NEIN DANKE" to the people who give you bags...otherwise I don't know.
About Vogue - We just bought a newspaper that we will trash pretty soon. But the salesman looked so sad and besides our german teacher say we have to read more magazines.
The irony
We left our bin for compost in the garden after I emptied it in the big compost a few days ago. (It was smelly and I was going to pick it up again after work, then forgot about it until today.)
It's now gone. Our neighbors trashed it.
So now the yogurt bucket from last sunday will have to do as bin for leftovers. Another good reason to shrink our waste - it only holds one liter.
By Pernilla
It's now gone. Our neighbors trashed it.
So now the yogurt bucket from last sunday will have to do as bin for leftovers. Another good reason to shrink our waste - it only holds one liter.
By Pernilla
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