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Suggestions for a slightly better world #1

If you put the amount of toothpaste on your toothbrush as is shown on the images in toothpaste commercials, you will run out of toothpaste quite quickly. Which means that you will have to buy more toothpaste.

By doing so, you help the manufacturers of toothpaste into some additional money. Undoubtedly, a part of that money will then be used to make more toothpaste commercials.

Is that really what you want? If not: use less or go for a cheap brand that doesn’t run commercials.

The day I decided to go paperless

It was my new year’s resolution on January 1st, 2013: avoid using paper wherever and whenever possible. That is now a little over a year ago – the perfect time for an evaluation.

THE WHY

The first question that comes to your mind might be: “Why on earth would you want to go paperless? Do you want the people working in the paper industry to lose their job?” As is often the case, the answer is both yes and no. Obviously I don’t want anyone to lose his or her job, Continue reading