Four days, six people. Mostly manual work. Preserving what can be preserved as cuts, ground beef, glass-jar-meat, tallow, jelly, and broth. The house smells like grease while the pots are bubbling down the fat. Upstairs we are still processing fresh meat in the half outside, half inside makeshift facility. The sun is kind to us …
I look at my headphones. It takes me now two hands to put them on. One ear pad has become loose. Well, it fell off. But I can still make it work somehow. The head phones are 5 1/2 years old and I bought them with the money from my last corporate industry project. Over …
Regenerative agriculture is loud! Better and faster solutions, technologies, tools, and convincing outcomes. More and more are part of it and less against it. How could you? We need to be better and we better be fast! … Is that regeneration? I recently read that around 40 acres of fossil biomass make about 1 gallon …
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I have an envelope. It’s a bit battered and held together by a rubber band, sticky notes all around. The top reads “For Joy and Happiness only”. It started some years ago. Every time I got cash on Christmas from my parents, I’ve put it in the envelope to save it for something for the …
Feeling. There was a time in my life when I loved watching football. Partly because I was interested in the sport. Mostly because it was a chance to truly feel. So many intense emotions are shared at the same time with friends and strangers alike – if it is in the stadium or just watching …
I was preparing a short introduction into circular design and circular economy for professionals when I stopped at my last slide. It read, “Start where you are”. There are many many great tools out there, most of them even open-sourced, and I wondered why can’t we just start? Is it the overwhelming complexity of the …
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In 15 years, I owned 3 different MacBooks. I still remember each of them. The first one, a MacBook Pro, heavily loaded with a CD-ROM drive, lost its life after 4 years to a tea accident. Funny enough, it didn’t really lose its life, although there were a lot of sparks and smoke. It still …