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Today I made a tortilla dough for the first time in my life! Until now I have been buying ready flours in supermarkets. By making it at home I avoided unwanted packaging and ingredients :)

I planted watercress last week!

I used some plastic packagings as pots due to the importance of reusing things. And as a substrate I used wadding - it was new but I had nothing do with it and I didn’t want just to throw it away. But if you want to grow watercress you can also use soil!

I’m so glad that it grows so fast! I’m growing watercress for the first time in my life and this year I’m going to plant more herbs and edible small plants :)

I recently made some liquid soap for myself to refill my soap pumps! I used a soap bar I had been gifted for the holidays that wasn’t something I was interested for in the shower. I grated it on my box grater on one of the finer sides so the soap flakes would be smaller. The smaller ones seem to dissolve better when the hot water is added. I put the flakes in a bowl with a spout and added some boiling water. I mixed it until there wasn’t anymore discernable bits in the mixture. I then poured it into this growler I thrifted recently. Overnight it’ll set into a pourable liquid soap. This way I can refill any of my soap pumps as I need them. If you can’t get liquid refills that aren’t plastic free it’s a great option. You can make as much or little as you want. My favorite part is that you can use any bar soap to make any scent you’d like. This process also gives good perspective into how much water goes into liquid products. Being able to add the water yourself saves money as you are avoiding paying for all the water weight. Has anyone else tried this? I want to try it with a solid conditioner soon as I couldn’t get it to run through my hair effectively. Send me any tips y’all got!

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Save our rainforest!

Why is it important to save the rainforest?

  • Every 2,5 seconds we lose an area of the rainforest which is as big as a footballfield
  • A tree can change 9000 liters of carbondioxid into oxygen in one sunny day. Think of all the trees that are missing
  • The earth gets infertile without the trees
  • Annihilation of indigenous cultures
  • Every day more than 70 species die out
  • About 90% of the types of trees in the rainforest are nearly vanished
  • Just take 3 minutes of the time you spend in the internet and google some more… you will be shoked

What can you do to stop the clearing?

  • Stop buying products which include palm oil (Nutella, most sorts of chocolate, …) and buy some without it instead
  • Stop the consum of paper and use paper with a seal of quality
  • Eatless meat (because in the agriculture products of soya are used to feed the animals. To plant those big areas of the fainforest are cleared)
  • Only buy (cosmetic) products if the have a certain seal of quality
  • Stop using to much plastic (because to get oil the rainforest is cleared)
  • Spread the message and tell your friends
  • Shrink your carbon footprint
  • Just search up some more. There are tons of things you can do.

Together we can save the rainforest, animals, humans and the natures if just enough people be part of the change!

This isn’t about politics. This is about saving our earth.

(Sorry for my english, i am not a native speaker)

If you’ve ever been interested in our earth than do something to save the planet!!

I keep reading things like this and i keep hearing things like “we have to save the planet” and “humans are destroying our planet” but guess what? Nobody wants to do it.

Nobody wants to use less palm oil, plastics and so on. Nobody wants to do something different than liking posts on Instagram and keep telling how good all the anti climate change protests are.

And it fucks me up because we need to do something. And everyone is we.

I’ve got friends who tell me how bad the use if palm oil is and that we need to stop to cut down the rainforest and those friends are eating Nutella at the same time.

I’ve got friends who tell me how great Friday For Future is and how important this idea is but guess what, those friends are wearing the lastest clothes and do absolutly nothing but talk about how evil humans are.

I do not want to say i am a better person but i keep trying and i want to make a change.

And so can you. Everybody is able to help our planet. Everybody can save it!!! Stop talking and start doing it.

(Same time ago i posted about how you can help our planet.)

Stop being someone who says “the humans are destroying the earth” and start recognizing that we are destroying the earth - but we can change it. There is still hope.

I made a free store on wheels!! We (me, my fiance and a friend) went around handing out free food (apples, oranges and bagels with vegan butter), we helped feed 27 people today !

Sign says:

“vegan. Free store. No money! Just community! Take what you like. ❤❤”

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