Tips for a Sustainable Year

New Year’s Eve can have as much meaning as you want it to, and the feeling of a clean slate is something we can all use sometimes. To help you get started, we’ve put together a few not-too-lofty New Year’s resolutions and some fun tips.

1. Let's start easy peasy: cuddle more! We've been in contact with each other less this past year, so we have a lot of catching up to do in the new year. Did you know that cuddling not only reduces stress, but is also incredibly good for your self-confidence and heart health ? So get to work on that cuddling! Not a people person? Cuddle an animal! Our Pebbles is also known as the real cuddle collector.

2. Of course, this list wouldn't be complete without a bit of shameless self-promotion. A very easy way to live a little more sustainably is to subscribe to our recycled or bamboo paper toilet rolls. After subscribing, you'll never have to go without sustainable toilet paper again, it will be delivered to your home without you having to think about it. You'll also be supporting our charity . Win-win! Subscribe today via our webshop .

3. Another sustainable product that we are fans of is Seepje. After all, washing your hands remains important, and by exchanging your standard soap products for a sustainable variant, you are already making more impact than you think. Seepje makes soap from natural products that would otherwise have been waste , such as orange peels from Albert Heijn. Seepje is available at Albert Heijn, Etos and Picnic, among others. You can also order their products via their website .

4. Kalsarikännit. Have you ever heard of this? Maybe you already do it without even knowing it. Kalsarikännit is a Finnish expression for sitting on the couch in your underwear with an alcoholic drink , without the intention of going out, aka our favorite corona activity. It is not necessarily something you should make a daily activity of, but according to the Finns it can do no harm at all and is even good for you, or so to speak 'self-care ' to schedule such an evening every now and then. So let's not forget, when we are back in our busy lives, to also have a nice kalsarikännit sometimes.

5. An essential item on a New Year's resolutions list is of course to eat healthier, although that is often easier said than done. Oh My Guts makes this a lot more accessible with their healthy and fresh ready-made meals that you can order with next-day delivery at ohmyguts.nl . Each tasty meal consists of a balanced combination of nutritious ingredients in sustainable packaging. The menu changes weekly and there are not only evening meals but also breakfast, lunch and snacks available!

6. Besides corona, one of the biggest burdens of this time is the addiction we all have to our phones and how easily we get distracted by it. A good intention that you may have already had is to try to keep this (a little) under control, so that it does not get in the way of your work and other things you want to do. The book 'indistractable' by Nir Eyal can help you with this. He focuses not so much on how bad it is that our gadgets have been made so addictive, but more on how we can control how we deal with this. The book is available here .

7. Kleerlijk is an initiative from Groningen that strives for a better future in the clothing industry . By making clothes in a responsible way and working together with people with a refugee background , they want to have a positive impact on people, climate and economy. That is something we fully support! You can contact Kleerlijk for professional or personal goals, they also offer the possibility to produce in small quantities. In this way they make Dutch production accessible to everyone again!

8. Finally, a small tip with a big impact : Ecosia is a search engine that plants a tree for every 45 searches on average. With over 2 million users, they have already planted about 117 million trees! The trees are planted in places where they are most needed by people, the environment and local economies.