Peppermint tea. If you have a garden you can grow it yourself. But you have to keep it from spreading everywhere.
Peppermint tea. If you have a garden you can grow it yourself. But you have to keep it from spreading everywhere.
Our first colour tv cost about 3 months of my dad’s salary in the early 1970s. And the Siemens mainframe computer in the company he worked for was tens of thousands (which was more than a year’s worth of the average salary). Rent. Every month. It had less computing power than my smartphone.
A brand new coffee grinder (hand crank) for free, and 15 silk neckties for €1 each.
Can you install something like this: https://youtu.be/M8P4v6JeNDw?feature=shared ?
Would planting a hedge or shrubs on your side be an option? Much nicer than a fence, provides a biotope for birds, insects and other animals, can bear fruit (yummy berries!)
Growing to a hight of 3 ft (~90 cm) should be a matter of 2 or 3 years, depending on the plants.
Not sure what you are suggesting the better alternative would be?
The same as with any gadget: use it until it’s broken beyond repair.
Trading your ICE car for an EV? So somebody else now drives your old car? Doesn’t save any CO2.
As far as I know it applies to anything where there’s a risk the chemical can affect the body. Like food and cosmetics (and the containers if there’s a chance that anything can leach into the product), but I can imagine it also applies to clothing fabric because it’s worn on the skin for a long time. Door handles and things like that? Less likely. But definitely toys, because children can (and will) chew on them.
Enter Europe’s precautionary principle when it comes to food safety: you don’t have to show that a chemical is harmful to ban it, but you have to prove it safe to be allowed in the food cycle. Guilty until proven innocent.
I simply use a cup for my coffee (https://pngimg.com/uploads/mug_coffee/mug_coffee_PNG16835.png)
I buy from a German second hand online shop which has a decent selection most of the time. But you often have to be patient if you want something specific. It’s not like “I need xyz tomorrow, let’s buy something”, but more “It’s January, but will be hot again in summer. Let’s see if there’s a nice shirt and summer suit on offer within the next 20 weeks”
As a fellow atheist, I love your bible argument! 😂
I can imagine it’s more difficult for women, but as a man I haven’t really looked into that. And as an old man dressing more on the “formal” side it might be easier to find clothes, than younger “athleisure” people.
Reducing the amount you buy doesn’t reduce the particles shed during wearing and washing.
But of course buying less overall, and as much second hand as possible, is always the better option not just for clothes. And some skills in mending your clothes so you don’t have to throw them away just because of a broken zipper or a ripped seam.
Best investment: a sewing machine.
Try linen (even comes in jersey knit!)
Linen and wool whenever possible. Or cotton, which has some issues (needs a lot of water to grow, gets damp very easily - sweat and rain! - and takes a long time to dry)
Over the last 10 or so years I eliminated all plastic fibres from my warderobe almost entirely. Problem almost solved. Industry and politics: too little, too late. Again.
For instance, the US would require a 75% reduction in beef consumption just for it to have enough grassland for it.
Aren’t you looking from the wrong end here? Ban anything but grass-feeding, put high import taxes on beef (the latter should be easy to sell: protect domestic farmers!), and consumption will go down automatically, because the supply drops by 75%.
Wolves had been extinct in western Europe for hundreds of years, only slowly spreading again after the fall of the Iron Curtain 30-something years ago. And, consequently, the hunting quotas for deer are being lowered.
The chaos caused by eliminating wolves is slowly getting back to balance.
By the way: a 100 year old forest is in its early childhood. Hasn’t even reached puberty yet.
I’m in Germany, where hunting is highly regulated (not “recreational”) with specific quotas which have to be followed (a fermales and b males from species 1, c females and d males from species 2 etc.). No more, no less, and roadkill has to be accounted for.
Thankfully, wolves are slowly coming back, so the quotas can be (and are in certain regions) lowered - but, unfortunately, now wolf-haters show up whining about their sheep because they are unwilling to invest in proper fences and guard dogs, even while both are subsidized by the state.
I use cotton dish cloths, and a brush