Sustainable Smoothie (part 3)
2 Smoothie Recipes Well, here are my “secret” smoothie recipes. The first one is what we have been doing until recently. It has some major issues in regards to sustainability. For example the banana and orange are not grown here but transported from far. And then the special ingredients are not grown here either and besides the flax seed, couldn’t be grown here. The second one has also the green super food in it. It is not locally from here, but could be replaced with some green kale, cucumber, spinach, etc. During the winter, which is cold and snowy here, […]
Sustainable Smoothie (part 2)
Have you been enjoying smoothies recently? We are just past the peak of our fruit harvesting season – pears, plums and apples. In the previous post about smoothies, we posted several questions to consider, if wanting to have a healthy and although otherwise sustainable smoothie, a “green” smoothie. Not because of the color it might have, but in the sense of having considered ecological aspects for its whole life-cycle and its footprint. To which level of detail and level of interconnections to other elements in the chain of processes and events necessary to produce our smoothie one wants to take […]
Sustainable Smoothie (part 1)
I want to use a smoothie, to go through the sort of thinking when looking into the question about what sustainability is, what details are involved to call something green, in the sense of environmental, social and financial viability. This is not treated exhaustively. Just a little warm up. So lets dive into this, first with the bigger picture. There is so much diverse and contradictory information out there in regards to what is a good diet. I am not planning to add to that. I am not a nutritionist or food scientist, or anything like that. Reading keeps me […]
Live Healthy Longer
Living longer in itself is not necessarily on the top of my wish list. What is close to the top, though, is to living a healthy AND long life. If that includes living longer, great. And then, for me it really needs to add a third and fourth piece or is it second and third: living healthy, passionate, green AND long. Wow! Yes! You know, just thinking about what it means to Thrive On Green, makes my day. There is a whole industry out there providing many potions, lotions, remedies, supplements, tools, equipment and techniques to live healthier and longer. […]
Low Energy?!
Some mornings when getting up the level of my energy is not at its peak. In fact, the resting place looks majorly attractive – just a few more minutes rest, please, with the hope that maybe then my body will tell me how well it feels and how it can’t wait to enjoy this new day. I purposefully led you down a different path than what this article is about, as there are connections. What I really wanted to talk about is the energy we use individually. And low energy use is probably in the center of transitioning to a […]
