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30 day vegan challenge

Esther Jacobs — Fri, 09 Aug 2019 13:38:38 +0000

When I was younger, I used to be a vegetarian. I did not like the idea that animals were killed for my food. As I got older and especially as I was traveling more, sometimes it was easier to have a more flexible diet, so I became a ‘flexitarian’. This requires a certain numbing of the mind; to dissociate eating meat with thinking of where that meat came from.

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Sustainable travel?

Esther Jacobs — Wed, 09 Jan 2019 20:04:19 +0000

What I thought was just a ‘fun’ infographic of my flights in the past 10 years generated by the KLM app, turned out to cause quite some discussion about flying, CO2 and compensation. Never before has a post of mine generated over 35.000 views (!). The discussion was not always balanced, but did provide [...]

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Giving is the new having

Esther Jacobs — Thu, 10 Jan 2013 18:53:51 +0000

Giving is the new having Do you have a drill? If so, you probably use it for a few minutes each month and then it spends the rest of the time in a cupboard. And what about your neighbor? He probably has one in his shed too. To be real, we don’t [...]

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