To buy new or used stuff can be a dilemma. We stopped buying new stuff. Well, almost. Some things are not or hardly available second hand, or are second hand so much less sustainable (in terms of environmental impact in production or in use) that you don't want them in your home.

Did you know that there is almost no product in your possession that incorporates the true costs?

A car, for example, would be unaffordable for almost everyone if it included all the real costs of the car's entire life. Yet those are real costs that have to be paid by someone somewhere at some point. Most of those costs caused by production and by current use, are borne by future generations. Summarized in a few words: by a depleted, heavily polluted, unhealthy and unlivable earth.

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ALL WE NEED IS LESS CONSUMING

Through my artworks I ask you to reflect for a moment on the nature around you, on the beautiful feeling that nature can evoke, on your actions to support the wellbeing of the earth and everything that lives on it, on what humanity loses when many of us continue on the destructive path of ever more greed and consuming, on how you can survive in this rapidly changing world…

Want to know your ecological footprint? 

Visit this website: https://www.footprintcalculator.org/home/en 

Want to reduce your ecological footprint?

Ask me, I will help you. For free. Or simply choose in the menu for Your Footprint.

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Thank you 🍏 !