Experiment #2: be a weekday vegetarian

Experiments are continuing, they’re interesting and good fun.

This time I got inspired by this Ted talk video from Graham Hill:

http://www.ted.com/talks/lang/eng/graham_hill_weekday_vegetarian.html

It’s a 4 minutes funny video, vision is very recommended :)

After that, I stepped into the real world of meat production and consumption: a world of which I heard about of but never investigated.

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Il turista Americano e il pescatore / The American tourist and the fisherman

[English / Italiano]

Un uomo d’affari americano in vacanza in Messico era fermo sul molo di un piccolo villaggio costiero, quando una minusco la barca con un solo pescatore a bordo si avvicinò. Nella barca c’erano alcuni tonni molto grandi e molto belli; l’americano si complimentò con il pescatore per la qualità del suo pesce e gli chiese quanto tempo c’era voluto per catturarlo.

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Experiment #1: Less is More

I decided to start doing experiments.
Each month I’ll do an experiment and share here the results.
Each experiment will have some source of inspiration and some lesson learned from it.

Why?
Because:
- it’s great to experience something new every month
- sharing publicly the results is a way to keep me motivated
- I want to inspire people to be curious and start experimenting as well… and share back

The first experiment actually happened already last September.

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A beautiful reading: “Delivering Happiness” by Tony Hsieh

Blogging around, and clicking links about lifestyle design I stumbled in a post about this upcoming interesting title: “Delivering Happiness“.

As I read a lot about happiness in the last year, I could not ignore this title :)

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Why I bought a van

[sorry, post only available in English!]

Sat 27th Feb 2010 I did bought a van, a Volkswagen Transporter T4 from 1999, called “The Salsa Shuttle”.

Qui va l'adesivo!It’s something I was talking about since few weeks but still people didn’t took me seriously thinking I was kidding… so many people asked me “Why did you bought a van??”

While my first answer is always “why not?”… there is more behind this decision and I want to share here my idea that buying a car is a much worse idea than buying a van.

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