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Making sustainable home design: Learnings from the Dutch

Making sustainable home design: Learnings from the Dutch

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Do you feel like you are melting by the increasing number of heatwaves in the place where you are living? Can you still get a quality sleep with warm temperature especially during the summer period? The climate has changed in the past years and perhaps you notice that it gets even worse. This calls for a more sustainable way of living, which can be started by making a sustainable home design. Everyone must do their part, regardless of how small…

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Improve the quality of life by having less

Improve the quality of life by having less

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“Live more by having less” is one of the important learning that I incorporated in my life since I moved to the Netherlands. This learning basically encourages everyone to improve the quality of life by having less. The Dutch way of living is simple, meaning that there is less cultural complexity – for instance the people are direct, honest, modest, and focus less on material things. These Dutch values are rooted from Protestantism, more specifically the Calvinism, a religion that…

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Save the planet by saving your pocket: Ten sustainable practices

Save the planet by saving your pocket: Ten sustainable practices

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Sustainability is a hot topic raising concern not only on the environment but also everyone’s social and financial well-being and moral obligations to make the world a better place. Many companies nowadays integrate social and environmental responsibility in their business practices not only out of idealism, but knowing that doing so can lead to higher profits. In fact, being sustainable is not only beneficial to companies, but also to individuals. One thing that I have realized since I started living…

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How to travel sustainably? Ten recommendations

How to travel sustainably? Ten recommendations

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Traveling enables us to grow and see the world from different perspectives. It encourages everyone to get out of their comfort zones, to explore beautiful places, and to experience different cultures. However, there are certain costs associated with the beauty of traveling, which each traveler should bear in mind. Traveling is not only financially burdening in terms of money, time, and effort, but also environmentally degrading. The financial costs of traveling are very well-known, while the environmental effects are continuously…

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