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Le simple living
http://lesimpleliving.blogspot.com
A blog on how to live a sustainable life, how to find balance between the care for the environment and fulfilling our dreams.
My biggest sin is my traveling. Polluting the planet with plane CO2 exhausts. I try to compensate for it as well as I can: reducing, recycling: you get it. But my travels are important to me: from them I learn how to live a good life wherever I am: Canada, Poland, Germany, France...
Recent Posts
A postcard from Germany
That's the ultimate "buy local" - flowers on a field for "self-cutting", only couple of minutes walking from my house. You cut as many tulips as you want and throw money into the box according to the posted price-list (Tulips 0.45E each, daffodils 0....
The case of white paper
I was working in the living room when my husband came in with a handful of our 100% recycled printing paper.- Do we have any normal paper? - he asked.- What do you mean by normal? - I shrugged.- Anything that would be white, and not this yellowish, ...
Green tip of the week - if you still have to fly...
Assuming it is not possible for you to take the train/bus wherever you are heading and walking from New York to Beijing (or Paris to Moscow) is not your thing - then consider the following:not all planes have the same fuel efficiency. In fact, the CO...
Why it's easy to eat local in France
I love the French marchés: the smells, the colors. The sellers that greet you with smiles and bon jours. People with their wicker baskets, so cliché and Hollywood-like I couldn't at first believe they were for real. I don't even mind standing in lo...
"TV free" and why I love it
It will be soon five years since I've sold my TV and became what they call "TV-free". It wasn't a statement or a planned change. We were moving with my husband from Poland to Canada, across the ocean and across the 110/220 voltage boarder. Our TV w...

