A couple of weeks ago, I wrote the blog attached. Describing how important it is to start changing my nutrition habits and get to less meat overall. And I said I start eating 2 or 3-times meat in a week. And my post was explaining why this makes sense and…
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2.240.000.000.000 US$
This is the amount the world has spent in 2022 for world military expenditure. The Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI) published this data today. This is a 3.7% growth in real terms, a 19% growth over the last 10 years. US, China, India, Russia and Saudi Arabia together account…
Providing weapons for war
24th February 2022, the war in Ukraine started with the invasion of Russia. Or at least with the desperate trying of an invasion to so-called “re-claim”Russian territory’s. As this is a conflict happening right at the border of Europe the EU nations and their allies have taken clear positions in…
Bojan Slat – having impact
On 7th April the Ocean Cleanup non-profit organisation accomplished a milestone of 200.000 kg of plastic removed from the ocean.It all started as a vision from Bojan Slat to get plastic out of the Ocean in 2011, when he was 16. Since then, he achieved with his team to introduce…
Climate activists
Easter season is approaching and you and your family/friends are getting ready for vacation. You get your holiday approved by your employer, you are selecting a place to go – ie North Italy – and you start to plan. As a matter of fact, you decide to take the car.…
Declaring “sport-free” today!
During the last 7 months I was training for my ultra endurance race end of April in Mallorca. Long hours, thousands of km, ten-thousands of altitude meters and lots of discipline. This morning there are 22 days to go, my legs are soaring, it is a gray and rainy day…
Climate…What I have to do with it (and maybe you…)
Over the last 10 years I fundamentally changed my view about climate, climate change and what I have to do with it.Before this time I was a solid bystander. I was able to contribute in discussions but in essence it was something that had not much to do with me…
Getting into politics
Looking across the world the established parties in many many countries are having trouble to get something done and execute their promises from the elections. Consequence is, that change isn’t progressing and the satisfaction levels of the population are not very good. Examples are manifold…UK struggling to get anything decided…
Going shopping & the environment
Just a very quick one for all of us – if you go shopping into your grocery have a look where the products are coming from and just by your own judgement decide whether it makes sense to buy actually blueberries from Spain or asparagus from Peru. There is no…
Berlin – climate neutral 2030…part II
Well..yesterday Berlin voted and the referendum was not successful. Why? Because just 30% (!!!) went voting! There had been just about 900K voters out of which 51% were voting for the referendum.Guess the other 1.6M voters enjoyed a nice Sunday…most likely some debating what could be done about climate change…