Living sustainably - that is what more and more consumers want. The question that quickly arises is how to implement sustainability in everyday life? Does a sustainable lifestyle necessarily mean doing without, or do smaller changes actually achieve more?
Approaching the theory and practice of sustainability is not that difficult. Fortunately, there are a number of good books that address various aspects, present them in an understandable way and give suggestions for implementation. Here we present some book tips for relaxing weekends on the couch. We recommend picking up an eBook - because at NIKIN we are paperless.
Stephanie Hess: ECOlogical, ChangeMaker
The author illuminates in an informative and exciting way how our consumption affects the environment. For many things that have long been taken for granted in everyday life have to travel a long (production) way. This is especially true for food, but other consumer goods are sometimes not very sustainable either. Stephanie Hess explains in an exciting and fact-based way how high the CO2 emissions and water consumption are for the production of popular products, and what alternatives consumers have.
The book can be found here!
Christoph Schulz: Sustainable Living for Beginners, Orell Füssli
This guidebook by Christoph Schulz helps with the first steps on the path to a more sustainable life. The book answers practical questions about the consequences of lifestyle and leisure activities and explains the benefits of, for example, avoiding or limiting meat consumption and air travel. In this way, the author makes his readers understand that each individual can indeed make a contribution to sustainability. More than 100 practical tips cover topics such as fashion, energy or investment and make it easier to implement good resolutions.
The book can be found here!
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Wolfgang Mulke: Investing money sustainably, Orell Füssli
Can investment be sustainable at all, and does changing customer behaviour have any effect on the financial industry? And indeed - as the author Wolfgang Mulke explains in this book. By opting for sustainable investments, investors can cut off the arms industry and corruption as well as industrial exploitation of nature, child labour or unhealthy food! Readers can learn how and where to find individual investment products and also sustainable financial service providers with the book.
The important topic of returns and the verifiability of sustainability is also addressed here, always in an understandable form. Private investors can use this book to develop their own investment strategies and find suitable investment products. Banks, funds and ETFs are presented, and with sample portfolios the author gives suggestions for different risk preferences - all of them sustainable.
The book can be found here!
Sabine Haag: Unpacked Shopping - Creative Storage, Orell Füssli
Unpackaged shopping is a trend, and in Switzerland, too, there are more and more shops where consumers can buy food and other items without packaging. Sabine Haag explains how this works best. After all, the goods purchased in this way also have to be transported and stored. Readers of this book will learn how to store loose food reliably, practically and even decoratively, and the author will also give them lots of ideas for doing it themselves.
The book can be found here!
There is a growing range of informative literature, much of it published by Orell Füssli in Switzerland. Blogs on the topic can also be consulted. Sustainability blogs based on the bloggers' own experiences are particularly exciting! They also provide helpful, readable and entertaining suggestions on the topic.
Do you know a good book, exciting blog or a convincing guide on the topic of sustainability? Share it with us in the comments!
