Have you ever worked in a supermarket? Well, I hadn't before this year. However, I did not work there as a paid employee because SuperCoop in Berlin (Wedding) is not an ordinary supermarket. Why am I telling you about this? Because this supermarket has a lot to do with sustainability. SuperCoop is a cooperative which …
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Today, I am sharing with you the English version of a book review which I wrote originally in German for the blog postwachstum.de with the editor's permit. You can find the German version here. Start with praise from Maja Göpel and a great vision In the German version of Jason Hickel's book "Weniger ist mehr …
Dear readers, The following content has been written by Charlotte Maier and has first been published in German on the Blog Postwachstum. You can find the original here. It is reposted in English in this blog with permission of all relevant entities and translated by the original author. I find the topic very interesting and …
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This is a slightly different kind of blog post than usual and I am sorry for the long break: Life is crazy sometimes 🙂 I want to use this platform to promote an academic article which finally got published, authored by me and two co-authors. We summarized our results as follows: "Green growth, a-growth, post-growth …
Towards the end of Plastic Free July, I want to provide some additional resources on the plastic issue, then give a hint on business schools discovering sustainability and shortly mention issues in (German) politics. Resources for Plastic Free July There are hopeful news on gastronomy taking up multi-use containers for to-go-food and other solutions being …
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"The world has enough for everyone's needs, but not everyone's greed"by Mahatma Gandhi (see the Guardian) There are people who might discuss if we actually have enough for everyone's needs as the human population has exploded during the past century and is still expected to grow for some years to come. But there is definitely …
It is usually most sustainable to keep ones things as long as possible. As the production of each item requires resources and impacts the environment, we need to limit overall production. And in many sectors humans already produced more than enough for all – in theory. For example, millions of newly produced pieces of apparel …
I personally hate it when I have to throw food away. I usually pay very close attention to eating things on time, before they expire or mildew. Sometimes items go bad directly after purchase. Then it's not really my fault, but it's still sad. Globally, there is so much food wasted that it would be …
We are coming close to the end of the year which means coming closer to New Year's resolutions. And we are close to having winter time (at least in my part of the world) meaning that it's cold and dark for the longest part of the day. It's a great time to snuggle up with …
This is the English version of an originally German post which I was able to publish on https://www.postwachstum.de/. It is a book review for which I got the approval to share it here with you as well. Even though the book is only available in German so far, its core messages might be interesting for …
Catha goes sustainable 