Knowledge Empowers

Knowledge Empowers

The more we know the better choices we can make. The news can be incredibly overwhelming. But knowledge does make us smarter in the end.


  • I would so love to do this….. Working on it.

    Wildflower lawns.

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  • the (future) King’s speech 🙂

    A TED talk with Prince William

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  • Love this! Less plastic! less waste, less toxins. What’s not to like?

    https://www.pinterest.com/pin/733875701782404243/

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  • A wonderful Dutch Website

    For a while now I have been following this website on instagram and wondered why it does not present itself in English as well. Maybe because it focusses mostly on Dutch grassroots initiatives…. But nonetheless I would love to make it accessible to english speaking people as well. The name is in English no less…. Anyway, please enjoy these amazing initiatives that through this website gets exposed to a wider audience and thus a larger effect… Remember, anything I can…

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  • I GOT A “NEW” PURSE 🙂

  • TREE STORY

  • I’ve been thinking…..

    I have not been posting a lot for a while. COVID became a bit more acute in all of our lives, and I have been doing a course about climate change and what we can do on an individual, communal and political level. It was very interesting. I really like my website, but I am not sure if it (yet) achieves what I would like, which is inspiring people to make better choices for the environment by providing the resources…

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  • let’s start the new year with some reading

    Let’s think outside the box, or in this case, beyond the polar bear and the 100 things you can do to safe the planet lists. very interesting article. and once again it comes back to : anything I can do we can do better.

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  • Naughty or Nice?

    It has been a while that I have posted a new page on this website. No doubt the pandemic has put a dent in the priorities of people including myself. I just did not think there would be much animo for exploring this stuff when our lives were so directly and profoundly impacted by all this. I am also not sure if this website really is the way to reach people, as I do not think is had made a…

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  • Look what already is happening!

    As I have said before I signed up for a course at the U of M ( from Coursera, free courses about everthing!) about what can be done about climate change on a personal, communal and national/governmental level. One of the surprising things I am learning is that there is already so much organizing going on!! Look at this amazing organization, right here in our Detroit. I would have never known. This is Good News. Now we all just have…

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