Team SWOX

Bring your own bags! No more plastic bags!

Enjoying nature, as is. Going paperless or at least reducing a big amount of paper is doable.

In southern California a lot needs to change. Besides conserving water, saving water while it rains for example, water treatment plants can make a huge impact.

If you are living around munich and like to grow your own vegetables and fruits, here you can rent your own little organic garden (prepared with everything you need to start) I just signed up for „munich south West“ who wants to join me? ackerhelden.de  Dein Bio-Gemüsegarten beinhaltet: Saisondauer frühestens 1. Mai bis 30. November...

We're almost half way through the #DRAWDOWNECOCHALLENGE! Give yourselves a big ol' high-five - we have almost 1,500 team points so far, that's amazing for a small team like us!                   Can WE/YOU do even better? SWOX wants to encourage you to step up the point game and therefore we have a BIG SURPRISE  for everyone: The team...

For this spring we decided to go camping close to where we live instead of flying to Mexico, like we did in the past. This was in the back of our head already, in order to introduce our little one to one more piece of the outdoor lifestyle we love so much - camping! The Drawdown Ecochallenge made us go for it in the end!

I tried an electric bike for a week when we got stuck at a friends house with my little one due to a family emergency. I like the ability to make further distances and uphill rides, but think the technolgies needs to develop a bit further for me to be really eco-friendly. The fact that the bikes can't charges themselves when parked by solar...

Since we live in a rental home, our options are limited (pre installed dish washer, laundry, etc). So we make sure to have enough dishes so we can always wait until the dishwasher is really full to make it worth it to run. We talked our landlord into being more water conscious by turning off the watering in the yard when it rains (even though...

Going to the farmers market has become a weekly routine for us in Portugal. Its a lovely place with colourful fresh veggies and fruits and fish from the local fishermen and the perfect place to have your saturday morning coffee and meet your neighbours. One of the best things is knowing that the money you spend is going directly to the farmer...

Learned a lot. I personally prefer a "real" bike over an electric bike. Great workout, no need to go the gym and saves even more electricity.