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Creating amazing art pieces, having hobbies, working with hands or finding a way to relax is very valuable and beneficial for our well-being.I was trying to push boundaries and bring not just an art value but to find a way to avoid damaging the environment by using so many colors. First, I finished completely using epoxy resin when I found out how toxic and terrible it is for the environment. I use a minimum of acrylics only for background study painting. The rest of my portraits I create from garbage and waste material. I buy second-hand canvases (at Swiss “Bröcki”), and all tubes from colors and glue are cut into pieces and reused.Inspired? Very well! Then we are on the...

Do you care? I do, even without kids. With kids, I would probably care even more.  I read a very inspiring book from the Patagonia brand founder Yvon Chouinard: Let my people go surfing. This book should be a business bible of sustainability and exemplary leadership, but a few weeks ago, I didn’t even know that a book like this existed. There is something wrong here. Each small decision, like not buying clothes and furniture but instead repairing and reusing, bringing your folding bag into a grocery store, or washing clothes only when they’re really filthy very much impacts the environment. We still don't get it –  the amount each of us can change. I am trying to get it...