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Most of us own things that we no longer use. But what one person considers rubbish might turn out to be a useful item for someone else. Charitable institutions have long served as places where...

The time of “my house, my car, my boat” is for many a thing of the past. More and more people are using cars, books, clothing and tools cooperatively. Just how many drills does an apartment...

We encounter around 5,000 advertising messages every day – whether in the guise of posters and flyers, or on television or in electronic form. Several hundred kilograms of paper per person per...

Cities are growing all over the world. But that’s only one side of the coin. In some cases, they’re also losing industries, facing shrinking populations, or moving forward only slowly with...

As we grow older, our need for living space changes – sometimes even faster than we’d planned. On the one hand, family and work life have become more dynamic than ever: from one day to the...

In so-called cohousing projects, like-minded people live together under one roof. As part of the project, the residents themselves design the rooms and shape the way they live together according to...

Many people regard meat as a natural part of their diet. At present, our desire for all things meaty lets us accept factory farming, heavy environmental pollution and detrimental effects to our...

Our basements and drawers are filled with discarded electrical appliances. They either gather dust or we throw them away. In Germany, this results in around 23 kilograms of scrap per person per year.

The idea behind the “2,000-Watt Society” is the vision of a sustainable and fair energy supply. The initiative from Switzerland has calculated that every person in the world could live on an...

If we take a look at our shopping baskets, we’ll see hardly a product without packaging. Every year, more than 18 million tons of packaging waste are generated in Germany – no country in Europe...

How can we conceive agriculture in a way that causes as little damage as possible to nature and the environment? In other words, how can we engage in arable farming that relies on plant diversity...

The banana has black spots, the bell pepper is all shrivelled – and doesn’t the milk smell a bit off? Straight in the bin. The average German throws out about 55 kilograms of food per year –...

No less than 80 per cent of all passenger traffic in Germany takes place by car or motorcycle. In Germany, there are about 570 cars per 1,000 inhabitants. The result of car traffic: noise, exhaust...

Buying something here, ordering something there – nowadays, we can’t escape the lure of consumerism. Is it at all possible for us to lead a more sustainable life in this sort of environment?...