Reuse school supplies

And this week we all get the lists already for next school year ….

BUT: „Despite the glossy ads featuring pretty new pens, pencils, binders, scissors and whatnot, it’s actually okay to *gasp* reuse the stuff you already have. That’s right, fellow non-consumers, last year’s scissors will still work this year, and that slightly used pencil can be resharpened.“

So, how about reusing all the items you and your family already have at home?
And if you buy something new, have a look for higher quality items (e.g. some good metal scissors), less plastic items, notebooks made out of recycling paper, ….

BTW: Primary schools usually hand out the lists with the necessary school supplies for school year 2016/17 now, Gymnasium usually only announces the list of items in September. In any case, plenty of time to tidy up and reuse items! Or maybe repair some items, too.

And if you find school supply items your child does not need anymore, give them to friends!

‪#‎RefuseReduceReuseRepairRecycle‬
‪#‎RehomeItems‬

http://thenonconsumeradvocate.com/just-say-no-to-unnecessary-brand-new-school-supplies/

Tesla’s Master Plan 2 – What’s next?

Tesla’s Master Plan 2 released by ElonMusk:

After making an electric sports car (Roadster), they moved to a luxury sedan (Model S) and an SUV (Model X): What comes next?
Model 3, then a compact SUV, a pick-up truck.
How do we want to drive cars? Tesla clearly points out that we need to get away from fossil fuels. Therefore sustainable energy production is essential. Tesla will offer one solar-roof-with-battery solution: Tesla and SolarCity will be brought together.
And: Tesla will work on heavy-duty trucks and high-passenger density urban transport.
With autonomous driving, we’ll rethink the whole system of transport and we can easily share cars. No need to own your own car. While you are not using your car, other people can use it.
What?!: A company (by most people currently known as car company) wants to encourage people to s-h-a-r-e cars and is excited about this?!
🙂
Wondering: How will BMW , Mercedes-Benz , Volkswagen , Audi Deutschland , Porsche , Ford Motor Company , and the other car companies react to this announcement?

https://www.tesla.com/de_DE/blog/master-plan-part-deux?redirect=no

PokemonGo? – LetsChangeTheWorldGo!

OK, also ich bin heute mal ganz ehrlich: ich bin neidisch!

Vorhin habe ich mich dabei ertappt, als in der Mittagspause vor mir jemand recht eigenwillig und merkwürdig mit seinem Handy in der Hand auf der Straße lief – auf der Suche nach Pokemons?
Nachdem ich mir nun mal durchgelesen habe, um was es
bei PokemonGo geht, was man da alles an Zeit und auch Geld investieren muss, gebe ich offen zu: ich bin neidisch auf die Erfinder von PokemonGo!
Wahnsinn, Menschen dazu zu bringen, ihre Zeit und ihr Geld dafür aufzuwenden, Fantasiewesen zu fangen, Bälle und was sonst noch zu sammeln.

Allerdings: gleichzeitig bin ich auch betrübt – (wie) könnte man es schaffen, dass Menschen ihre Zeit & Geld denn für was Sinnvolleres in der echten Welt einsetzen?

Seufz ….

Ich will mein eigenes „LetsChangeTheWorldGo“ erfinden und würde gern Leute losschicken, um die Welt zu verbessern.

😉

http://www.merkur.de/multimedia/pokemon-go-server-down-tipps-und-tricks-fuer-einsteiger-zr-6569660.html

 

Sommer, Sonne, … Müll am Strand!

Ein sonniges Wochenende an der Isar ….

Warum benehmen sich eigentlich viel zu viele Menschen so, als ob ihnen unser Planet alleine gehört und es absolut egal ist, wie wir ihn unseren Mitmenschen und nachfolgenden Generationen hinterlassen?

Zu gern würde ich ja mal sehen, wie es solchen Schmutzfinken gefallen würden, wenn man sie einfach an der Isar beim nächsten Besuch direkt in diesen Müllhaufen setzen würde – da können sie dann ja gern gemütlich drin grillen oder sitzen ...

🙁

https://www.facebook.com/OB2014/photos/a.429182830442830.115134.356160674411713/1390860150941755/?type=3&theater

Ignorance is not a virtue

Great 8 min video:

„In politics and in life, ignorance is not a virtue.
It’s not cool to not know what you’re talking about.
That’s not keeping it real or telling it like it is.
That’s not challenging political correctness.
That’s just not knowing what you’re talking about!“

„The rejection of facts, the rejection of reason and science, that is the path to decline.“

Mansplaining

I did not know that there is a word for this behaviour: „Mansplaining“.
I really hate this. This happened to me, too. Recipe against it: Learn a lot about the topic, prepare yourself for the meeting (better than the others), speak with a clear voice, stay calm, and continue to speak with a firm voice.
People may think that you are arrogant, but so what?!
I’m a scientist and I believe:
„Scientists have an independent obligation to respect and present the truth as they see it.“ (Cited in „An inconvenient truth“)

https://www.facebook.com/attn/videos/1051065834928875/

 

Audi Chef warnt vor Existenzkampf

Na, das ist ja mal was, jetzt Mai 2016:“Stadler bereitet tiefe Schnitte vor. Ab 2025 will er keine neuen Verbrennungsmotoren mehr entwickeln. Richtig gelesen: keine!“
Und am 25.7.2014 sagte Audi-Chef Stadler noch: „Audi wird auch in den kommenden Jahren nicht in den Markt für Elektroautos einsteigen und hält die Technologie weiterhin für eine Randnotiz, der keine ausreichend große Nachfrage gegenübersteht.“
http://www.bimmertoday.de/…/audi-elektroautos-bmw-tesla-ru…/

Wie schnell jemand doch in 22 Monaten die Meinung ändern kann ..
😉

Aber: Besser späte Einsicht als gar keine! Dann mal los und hoffentlich sehen wir auch mal ein paar echte Elektro-Audis auf der Straße, nicht nur die Hybride, deren Elektroantrieb eher nur Feigenblatt-Charakter hat.

#StartWith1Thing
#LetsGoElectric

http://www.manager-magazin.de/magazin/artikel/autoindustrie-audi-chef-rupert-stadler-warnt-vor-dem-existenzkampf-a-1087115.html

5 years later: The worst meeting of my whole life

Facebook reminded me today: 5 years ago I was in the worst meeting ever! Really the worst meeting ever in my whole life!

There is nothing worse in life than talking to people who do not listen and who think that they are „superior“ human beings and just talk and talk without saying anything.

Too bad I did not have such a business card back then …

BTW: Almost one yearafter that meeting, now almost exactly four years ago, I left my job.

Nepotism, bad management, and waste of public money should never be tolerated. And I will never accept this.
(yes, still working also on this issue …for all who know the context )

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„Wine-to-go“ in single-use plastic cups

Yuck!
Wine in small plastic cups (single-use packaging)!

First we had coffee-to-go and now „Wein-für-unterwegs“(„wine-to-go“).

I’d like to nominate this product as today’s winner of the
„Things the world does not need“ contest.

Sigh.We are ruining our planet. And for what?!
What’s the point to have nice drinks like coffee and wine and then fill them into plastic cups. Coffee and wine tastes like sh** and contains very likely some chemicals from the plastic and right after the use, the single-use cups litter our planet.

Please think twice before buying such „lifestyle products“

PS: Just wondering – are there really people around who like to drink a „wine-to-go“? Where? On the way from work to home? (I hope not on the way from home to work…)

https://lepetitraisin.com/landingpage-party/

Don’t come to Europe. says Donald Tusk

03.03.2016

Harsh words from Donald Tusk:
„Appeal to potential illegal economic migrants: Don’t come to Europe. Don’t believe smugglers. No European country will be a transit country“

This morning at Athens.
„Do not risk your money nor your life.“
The rules of Schengen will be applied again.

Side note: During the political discussion of Gauweiler & Lafontaine on January 28th 2016 in Munich, they started with a clear definition of three groups of people: 1. Asylum-seekers according to the laws (less than 1% of the new arrivals in Germany), 2. Refugees who flee from wars (Syria), 3. Economic migrants.

https://www.welt.de/politik/ausland/article152882643/Egal-woher-Sie-stammen-Kommen-Sie-nicht-nach-Europa.html