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02.02.2025

climate change - waste - 1 - living spaces

Thoughts about us and our waste in the private sector All life is a biochemical world with its laws and coincidences. Every thing, that we throw onto this earth has an effect on our eco system and on us. We can ignore this reality – but it still remains a reality.  

02.02.2025

climate change - waste - fridge - 2

Household waste – the fridge needs energy to cool – we stuff it full of cardboard, plastic and chemically preserved food – every product has an emission value – we cool waste – highly processed food (HPF)

01.02.2025

climate change - waste - HPF

The cheese – that doesn’t go moldy – highly processed food –  produced – bought – cooled – thrown away –      

01.02.2025

climate change - waste - 4 house waste and bulky waste

  Household waste and bulky waste – the masses of everyday waste in the private sector are getting bigger and bigger – why is that?        

01.02.2025

climate change - waste - 5 - abused and abandoned -

privat and public – abused and abandoned – Household waste, from the home to the garbage room, is generally perceived as a private matter. Yet our attitude to our waste, to our shared spaces, to our public spaces and to nature is of the utmost public importance worldwide.  

01.02.2025

climate change - waste - public spaces 6

Public spaces – scenes of a repressed reality … yet so many wonderful things could be done here! The potential of places is often not recognized from the point of view of sustainability and preservation in general. But so-called investors see development opportunities immediately. And then comes the demolition and densification of European cities.   […]

01.02.2025

climate change - waste - public spaces in a house 7

Dealing with public spaces in the house – you can actually be happy that you have dry, clean and safe cellar rooms and staircases.  

01.02.2025

climate change - waste - 8 - useless spaces

A room – filled with bulky waste – becomes unusable for a useful functions –

01.02.2025

climate change - waste - 9 - a childrens room

– A children’s room was cleared out here – The recycling system means processing recyclable materials. Does that mean we can continue to produce waste unchecked? No, we can’t. The New York Times reports the 14th of February 2025: “Nowhere does today’s waste trade reach more boggling dimensions than with plastic. The time scales alone […]

01.02.2025

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stacked up to the ceiling – how is an employee of the Berlin city cleaning service supposed to move this container?

01.02.2025

climate change - waste - 11 - to free from us

Word definition: to dispose of – to free from waste – official language – shift of mind: we free nature and our public spaces from littering by us

01.02.2025

climate change - waste - 12 - sustainable city management

The sustainable practice of circular management is already part of the Berlin city cleaning company’s program and this is also what it says on the black garbage can. Waste is turned back into energy. But we do not use space and energy in the private sector in a sustainable or socially acceptable way. How can […]

01.02.2025

climate change - waste - messaging about us - 13

What message does our garbage have about us?

01.02.2025

climate change - waste - 14

buy cheap – get rid of cheap

01.02.2025

climate change - waste - 16 - secretly parked -

secretly parked a traffic calming zone, which serves the safety of pedestrians, and which is used as a bulky waste area – functionally structured urban space becomes unusable –

01.02.2025

climate change - waste - 16 - secretly

secretly parked

01.02.2025

climate change - waste - the freedom we have -17

secretly parked In the freedom we have – we secretly put our bulky waste on the street and write a sign saying: “to give away”. Giving away something good is nice. But is it okay to give away garbage? Here you can see two children’s chairs that were broken. I checked that out.

01.02.2025

climate change - waste - 18 - alienation

Indifference – it’s not the amount that matters when putting garbage down – it’s the attitude – that shows – and the effect it has on us – alienation secretly burried

01.02.2025

climate change - waste - the city as a sustainable living space 19

The city as a sustainable living space We can understand a city for what it is, a sustainable ecosystem, a structure, that keeps us alive. This message has not yet arrived

01.02.2025

climate change - waste - Eco City - 20

Urban biotopes – we don’t have to go back to the roots, back to the pre-industrial age – we can combine the tried and tested with the new in a sustainable principle – we can do it ourselves – transnational and cooperative – worldwide –

01.02.2025

climate change - waste - care for our homes - 21

accept and care for our homes …

01.02.2025

climate change - waste - 22 - what is sustainable management ?

What actually is sustainable management in the private sector?

01.02.2025

climate change - waste - 23 - organic waste

This is waste. It can simply be returned to the cyclical process of creation and decay and creates new life in decay. – no chemicals – no plastic – does not cause any costs – this is sustainable.  

01.02.2025

climate change - Abfall - organic - 24

Sustainability is – that you avoid producing waste, that is not degradable – Buy kitchen towels – that you can boil – brushes made from natural materials – avoid plastic sponges – plastic brushes – Stop buying products that are packed or filled in plastic. Do not produce waste. This is sustainabe.

01.02.2025

climate change - waste - organic waste - 25

Organic waste supports biodiversity Garden waste, vegetable waste goes back into the biological cycle and becomes soil. This organic waste feeds mosquitoes, worms and spiders, mites and millipedes. It supports the diversity of species. This is sustainable.

01.02.2025

climate change - waste - 26 -worms

Learning sustainability from worms Agricultural scientist David Witzeneder has developed the worm bin for city dwellers. It gives us city dwellers the opportunity to compost organic waste in our homes. I call this worm bin a university. It teaches us how to turn organic waste into soil in the smallest of spaces. The worm not […]

01.02.2025

climate change - waste - sustainability - childs playgrounds - 27

where the child plays Where there is structure, there is lawfulness. The observing child is shaped by its experience of the moving and vital world around it. The light, the scent, the sounds, the diverse textures of the materials are all there to be discovered. A sustainable and natural environment encourages the world explorers of […]

01.02.2025

climate change - waste - culture and memory - 28

structure and memory – ants had lost their nest – the brood was lying outside – after two hours they had brought it to safety – there was not a single egg to be found – observe and learn from nature.

01.02.2025

climate change - waste - pleistozän and holozän - 29

Age – The pebbles are millions of years old. They come from the Pleistocene age. The porcelain shards come from households of the last 200 years –  in the Holocene age. Thinking in terms of ages and generations is sustainable.

01.02.2025

climate change - waste - 32 - structure and reconstruction - we can repaire

Structure and reconstruction – we can repair – reassemble – reconstitute the tried and tested – this is sustainable

01.02.2025

climate change - waste - 31 - the evens in the Kamschatka region

Respect for nature Traditionally, the women of the Evens in Kamchatka in Siberia cooked their food outside on the fire. They say: “Fire is a gift from the gods. The food cooks quickly. If a man comes, he can eat right away. They honor the animal whose meat they eat. Nothing is thrown away. That […]

01.02.2025

climate change - waste - structure and sustainability - mosaic - 33

Structure – sustainability – preserving Observing the fabrics in the wind and rain comes naturally. You see something. You pick it up. You don’t get lost in the hustle and bustle of the world. Culture and sustainability create peace within you. You create your own little personal order. You create a collection of organic things […]

01.02.2025

climate change - waste - 33 - preserving resources

The oceans and their beds, rivers and lakes, the mountains, the atmosphere, the forests and the earth’s soil are complex ecosystems that feed us and keep us alive. Everything is systematically interconnected. We live and survive from the knowledge that is in nature and  that is in us. This is sustainable. Sustainable management is preserving the resources […]

01.02.2025

climate change - waste - 34 - furniture for 100 years

Furniture that lasts a hundred years – thats sustainable –

01.02.2025

climate change - waste - democracy and freedom

Liberal democracies and the freedom of others in the age of climate change We think democracy development, history and climate change together. Liberal democracies require that people from different walks of life, different ethnic -or education background meet each other in normal life and share life in public spaces. Acting together in such a way […]