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Activism it is not to go out and fight for the ocean,  it is to find what you are and live for it.

A minimalist website.   Perfect for the readers, which is perfect for the writer.   ... The person coming to your site isn’t a customer, a potential mailing list subscriber, a consumer of advertising, a person who wants to be marketed to, a buyer of your affiliate products, a Facebook or Twitter follower …  he’s a person who simply wants some information or entertainment from what you’ve written. I have been more and more curious about to live minimal. We need minimal things in life to be happy. And it turn out to think: do I need the blog? After reading this  I decided to give a new look to the blog. I like to post some ideas that I get through in my work or life style. Maybe some readers like to see them as well. If we have a minimal blog, the both of us can spend minimal time on it. And hopefully, we use that time doing more important things!

I also love food! Sometimes I think I would be happier if I could be a cooker. Maybe because I need to give something to others. Or either just because I like to have people around. I like the point that food is connected with the environment. It is a challenge to cook what nature give to us. All these connections start to make sense to me when I first tried to grow my own vegetables. It was some years ago in Algarve. And that experience was the source of these PhD project idea. One can have vegetables in the garden, but fish, they are under the water, in the sea. We do not see them. Her blog is beautiful. It is an example how a blog can turn out to be a life project. A good point about eating animals: A lot of people want to know “what I am” – vegetarian, vegan, raw foodist, fruitarian, macrobiotic…guess what? I am a person who eats!  My food philosophy is this: I hate labels. They stink.  They force a person to define themselves with very rigid terms, a...

A study regarding the efficiency of beetle larvae (mealworms) as a potential protein source was published in the journal PLOS ONE by researchers at the University of Wageningen in Netherlands.  The researchers compared the environmental impact of meat production on a mealworm farm to traditional animal farms using three parameters: land usage, energy needs, and greenhouse gas emissions.  From the start of the process to the point that the meat left the farm, they found that mealworms scored better than the other foods.  Per unit of edible protein produced, mealworm farms required less land and similar amounts of energy. What the study says: The demand for animal protein is expected to rise by 70–80% between 2012 and 2050, while the current animal production sector already causes major environmental degradation. Edible insects are suggested as a more sustainable source of animal protein. However, few experimental data regarding environmental impact of insect produ...

6. Humour. Seeing the funny sides of situations and of oneself doesn't sound very serious, but it is integral to wisdom, because it's a sign that one is able to put a benevolent finger on the gap between what we want to happen and what life can actually provide; what we dream of being and what we actually are, what we hope other people will be like and what they are actually like. Like anger, humour springs from disappointment, but it's disappointment optimally channelled. It's one of the best things we can do with our sadness.  Laugh about stupid ideas in stupid moments about stupid things. It is the best one can do. Sometime people ask me if I am a sad person because I work with the environment, which has always big problems and difficult solutions. I'm not. I feel the opposite. Each small thing I can do, even if it is very small, to improve the fact that we are millions living in a only one tiny planet, makes me feel happy. I believe in what I'm doing...