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Climate positive!
We do what we can to reduce our destructive impact and to increase the positive impact on the ecology. In other words, we try to reduce our “footprint” and increase our “handprint”. Not only by political actions and climate marches, but also by planting trees and sharing knowledge and insights about sustainable living. Both at […]
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On buying more, more, more
There I was, standing in the Intersport store, slightly excited. The hunter in me had become awake. I had my discount vouchers in the pocket. A lot of Dutch people like ‘korting, korting’ (discount, discount). I’m one of them. “Shop till you drop” was written on one of the vouchers. My life would be even […]
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Happy New Year of the Tree
We are rounding off the year of 2016 with lots of good memories and plenty of surprises in the world around us. We live in opulence and enjoy the incredible wealth of the rich country of the Netherlands. Therefore, we do what we can to make it possible for other people and other generations to […]
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Pollution is like Slavery
Yesterday we had a fantastic day in Food Forest Ketelbroek with two heroes of our times: John D. Liu and Wouter van Eck. Liu’s work as a documentary filmer and ecology researcher is impressive and inspiring. He has put all his articles and films for free download at Academia.Net (you do have to register). Some […]
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Linden Tree – A Common Lettuce Tree
Linden trees are planted in many parks and other urban landscapes, since they are strong and can resist quite a lot of abuse. They are also beautiful and smell great in the early summer when the flowers emerge. Here are some hints on how to recognize a Linden tree near you: Check out the leaves […]
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Research Plan 2016
The “Linden Leaf Lettuce Research Project” strives to build more knowledge around leaf production, harvest, storage and cooking linden leaves. We collect production data – how much do we get from each tree? taste preferences – which is the most delicious species/cultivar? We have planted 25 small trees in Soest, the Netherlands during 2015, to […]
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Borneo is Burning
The huge forests of Borneo are burning. The richest nature and poorest humans on Earth are found here. But for how long? We are cutting and burning the forests to make yet another palm oil plantation… A few humans get richer, the nature dies. The rain forests in this region have built up billions of […]
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Linden Leaf Lettuce Trees
Today we planted twenty-five linden trees to learn more about how to grow these delicious salad leaves. We ordered a few bunches of young linden trees from ‘t Vaarderhoogt, with Tilia cordata (Dutch: winterlinde) and Tilia platyphyllos (Dutch: zomerlinde). We also bought alder trees (Dutch: witte els) to support nitrogen fixation and to give shade, […]
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Palm Oil Petition
Hello Tree Friend! We will run the first “Trees For Peace Petition” in the coming month. One of the most depressing sights in Southeast Asia are the palm oil plantations. Rain forest is cut down and the animals who lived there are kicked out/killed. The reason: we want to have “trans-fat-free cookies”. In 2000, it […]
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Saving Old-growth Forests
The devastating deforestation of the old-growth forests across Asia, Africa and America is a terrible waste and painful to witness. Even worse is the realization that this has already happened in Europe. Almost all original forests have been razed and burned as charcoal to drive the industrial revolutions and population explosion. Of course the commercial […]
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Solar Power
Since a couple of weeks we have solar cells for electricity production on the garage. Many of our friends (Bram&Eke, Jonas&Nina etc.) have inspired us by being forerunners in the eco-energy evolution. We now also take this step towards a more sustainable living. In October, we installed our first grid-connected solar cells. It is 8 […]
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Last leg to Soest – 12001 km
We took the train from Trollhättan to Göteborg to Malmö and stayed overnight with our good friends Carl and Frida. The next day we went to Copenhagen, to see “Borgen” – Christiansborg – that is the physical center of political power in Denmark. The night train to Utrecht would have been perfect, with a luxurious […]
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Protected: Trollhättan
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chinese kids
Today we are going to vissit some chinese kids in Trollhättan. Strange that there even are chinees kids this much away from china, and especialy thatwe speek better chinese than them, but they are still fun to pláy with. We played with them one time before.
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Stugan Källarvinden – our cottage in the woods
We rent a small house in the forest near Alingsås, half an hour train ride from Göteborg. (Link to Google Map) It is part of an old village, with lots of new houses, and it is a ten minute walk to the train station. It is a five minute walk down to the lake Mjörn. […]
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Stockholm to Göteborg – 10925 km
Stockholm Central Station was full of passengers who could not take their trains, due to a fire in an electric power station. Our train was one of the few that could ride away that day – very lucky!
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Stockholm
We are now in Stockholm. We were just in the boat, our boat is from the Tallink company. We liked it in our boat (I think).
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Protected: smilies
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Tallinn to Stockholm – 10456 km
We arrived in Stockholm safe and sound. The ferry ride was smooth as silk. The breakfast buffet was good as milk. 🙂 It was fantastic to be back in Sweden! The boat is called Tallink. The Carrot Man!
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Bungee jumping, with a trampoline
In Tallinn my brother and I went bungee jumping with a trampoline (we don`t know the real name but that is how we call it). I came as high as the metal things holding the ropes (that means having the rope straight (it was just like this ( – = rope, ( = left post, […]