HETKANWEL


Blogging, green lifestyle and inspiring news: that´s what the hetkanwel dag on the 23. January was about.

HetkanWel are blogging now for 5 years and always informing people about how you can make your world more sustainable, more beautiful and simply more fun.
Blogging is the large scale way of reaching people, but events are the place where you really have the time to dive deeper into a topic.

The hetkanWel dag was about the "green new years resolutions": what are yours?

One could be to make conscious consumer choices. Now what was that again?
The Hubshop presented a Test-Lab workshop where people were asked exactly that question: What actually is green and what only looks green? What do I want to buy and what not? 8 products were rated by the participants accoding to 11 factors:

The Hubshop presented a Test-Lab workshop where people were asked exactly that question: What actually is green and what only looks green? What do I want to buy and what not? 8 products were rated by the participants accoding to 11 factors:

1. How large is my positive social impact when I buy this product? (fair trade, self-support for handicapped people, fair labor conditions)

2. How large is my positive environmental impact when I buy this product? (short transport, recycled material, production process (clean, no chemicals)

3. How large is my positive cultural impact when I buy this product? (Am I supporting local culture, artists, designers…)

4. How much does this product have an emotional appeal to me? (Do I like it?)

5. How good is the quality?

6. How transparent is this product? (Can I easily find out how it is produced, where its revenues go)

7. How much do I learn from this product? (Does it enlarge my awareness?)

8. How acceptable do I find the price? (Would I buy it?)

9. How healthy is it to produce and to use this product?

10. How large is the positive impact on the local community where this product is made?

11. How many people can this product reach? (Does it potentially have a large scale impact?)

Sustainability is indivdual. Everyone is different and everybody has different preferences, has different needs and different priorities. Sustainability is about choosing a lifestyle that is longlasting, so it should better fit your needs! The combining factor that all those individual choices have in common is that they take the world into account and think a little further. As long as you can eat delicious chocolate with it!