The other day I heard someone exclaim, “Holidays in Switzerland are all very well, but there’s no sea.” At home I wondered… If I didn’t go to Italy, Spain or France in the summer; or Thailand or Egypt, do I really miss the sea? What does that actually mean? The sea… I close my eyes […]
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May
May
Over the past few weeks, everyone has been spending a little more time in the kitchen than usual. While some whipped up gourmet meals, others were satisfied with a simple plate of pasta. The nice thing is that everybody can become heroes in the kitchen: climate heroes. Because the kitchen is the perfect place to […]
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Mar
Mar
It’s an undeniable luxury: there is surprisingly never a shortage of tomatoes and other exotic vegetables or fruit in the supermarket. Although – it might not be that surprising for most people, because we got used to it a long time ago. Even if it is biting cold or persistent dryness outside, we can always […]
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Feb
Feb
Have you ever heard of the 100-Things-Challenge? It’s a challenge where you try to get by with only 100 things for a period of time you define yourself, such as a month. The number hundred might seem big at first. But if you count all your items, the amount suddenly seems tiny! Last week I […]
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Jan
Jan
January – the bellies are still full from the “Guetzli” snacking during the whole Advent season. As a New Year’s resolution and to get rid of the Christmas pounds, many Swiss people like to spend the winter months in the snow. Many foreign tourists also choose Switzerland as a winter sports destination every winter. Because […]
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Nov
Nov
Quickly by car to the city, to work, on vacation: Being mobile is part of our habits, part of our comfort and it is difficult for us to make do without it. That is why we are glad that technology is bringing more and more climate-friendly alternatives to conventional cars onto the market. In this […]
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Oct
Oct
What is the best way to see how climate change is affecting your favourite glacier? It’s not with a graph showing the ice cover on a PowerPoint presentation and not even with satellite photos: it’s with direct experience!On August 7th, 2019, an excited group of brave snow lovers hiked together with myblueplanet to the Morteratsch […]
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Sep
Sep
Plastic is not all bad. It has revolutionised and improved our lives, it’s a versatile and economic material that is used in virtually everything we use. The issue is, for the sake of convenience we now abuse the use of plastic, in particular single-use-plastic, to the point where we are filling up our own environment […]