Now that we are all stuck at home and have lots of time to think, work on ourselves, change our bad habits, our daily lifestyle and be more aware of sustainable living, we can help the world getting a better place with a little less plastic and a little more green!
But how to live more sustainable while at home? Here some tips to keep you busy on how to make little changes at home.

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1.Separate your garbage properly

In a lot of countries it’s already a rule that you need to separate your garbage, but it will suprise you in how many countries this doesn’t happen, maybe because their to busy working and forget about it, or because it’s just easier that way, or they don’t have the luxury to separate.
Now that we’re all stuck at home we can make time for things like this and getting it in our daily systems. It’s such a little effort but it makes such a big difference. In this way they can process it easier and recycle the things that really can be recycled.

2.Make your own bases like doughs, breads without palm oil.

What i already wrote before in my other blog about sustainable living, there are a lot of products that use palm oil, also a lot of things you wouldn’t expect like chips, cookies, pancakes, bread, pizza and so on. Palm oil is one of the world’s biggest problem now a days, because of the insanely amount of palm oil that they use in almost everything we eat, they can’t keep up with and just simply don’t have enough trees to produce it. Because of this problem their tearing down jungles and forest to plant more palm trees to keep up with it. And it’s effecting a lot of our nature, like the orangutans that live in these jungles, that are losing their homes.
If we all just learned the basics of making our own doughs, cookies and so on we will save the homes of our animals. And suddenly we have a lot of time to do stuff like this so why not? It can be so much fun.

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3.Plant your own veggie garden

A good money saving tip and also very healthy and sustainable. Plant your own veggies and herbs in your garden, or if you don’t have a garden make your own little greenhouse inside. In this way you will have biological veggies or herbs, home grown that is not wrapped up in plastic or sprayed with chemicals. Easy and very fun to do!

4.Support local farmers

Small farmers are being very bad effected by the corona crisis, and they could use all the support they can get. Compared to the grocery stores they will have the food that’s in the season and mostly unsprayed with chemicals, better for you and nature. Drive by and pick up (with proper distance of course) some fresh veggies, milk, eggs, butter or cheese. There are also some websites that provide you with grocery’s from little farmers all biological and grown with a lot of love and care for nature.
Each country has many of it’s own suppliers so i suggest to look it up. To give some examples:
- UK : Farmdrop.
- Netherlands : Boerschappen
- United States: Farmers to you
- Australia: Aussie farmers direct
- South Africa: locally grown
There are a lot of different websites that provide this service, so do your research and support your locals.

5. Whole food stores

In the theme of supporting our locals, and sustainable living, you should start buying from a whole food store. Mostly these stores are supplied by local farmers organic and biological grown.
Stock up on pasta, rice, flour, seeds, nuts and other products like that in a good sustainable way. Taking your own bags or jars to the store is a very normal thing to do here. And compared to the supermarket prices a decent price for food that is good for you and nature.

6. this one is for all the chocolate lovers sitting at home

What a lot of people don’t know, or maybe do know is, that a lot of chocolate is made by slavery. From little kids to older men and women trying to support their family’s with no other option. The demand of chocolate is so big that the countries that produce most of our cacao (Ivory-coast &Ghana) can’t keep up with it. They need to plant more and more cacao trees, they need to have more workers to harvest and process the cacao, and sell it for a very very small price that can’t even support them for one day of food. And with things like this you will never know for sure that you will have a slave free chocolate bar, because the influence of the big companies is huge. But a lot of smaller companies, and even bigger ones are trying to do better and are labeling their chocolate as fair trade or slave free. Some of the more known names of these brands are: darrel lee, Tonychocolonely. So next time that you buy a chocolate bar, make sure that you read the label for Fairtrade and slave free.

want to know more about this topic? Watch the serie Rotten episode: bitter chocolate.

7. start making your own things with sustainable fabric.

Also a good money saver! And with making your own things i mean maybe clothing, scrunchies, tote bags depends on how creative you are and how good you are with sowing. Make sure that you buy the right sustainable fabric that is not made in a little shed by children or trough slavery. Reuse old clothes that you don’t wear anymore and maybe were going to trow away. Recycle and be creative.

8. look up information about sustainable shops, restaurants etc.

It’s always good to look up more information about this topic. Look up which clothing brands are sustainable or which restaurant uses natural and organic food, so you can visit them when this is all over. Look up information about good causes and websites that stand for a sustainable world. And maybe even watch inspiring Netflix documentaries about our planet. Lots of things that are good to know if we want to change the way we live in a good way.

I hope some of you found some inspiration in my blog about sustainable living, and actually want to make little changes in their daily routine. Subscribe if you want to be updated with more tips and tricks on how to make the world a better place.

Live sustainable at home during Coronavirus