Make Meaning, Not Money. Interview to Zero Waste Expert Paul Connett
Activating yourself to improve society is the best way you can live. And in doing so you‘re going to have a lot of fun….
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If by culture we mean the – learnt, not innate – rules regulating individual and social life, it is through education that such rules can be perpetuated and, possibly, improved.
Turning Defects into Strength: The Example of Georgia Starts Here
The importance of being earnest. It’s not an alternative version of Oscar Wilde’s play, but the distinctive feature of Georgia Starts Here, a website…
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The Plastic Recycling Project in Kutaisi, Georgia
Think globally, act locally. A number of organisations and private citizens have been embracing this slogan and are working towards a more sustainable world…
Read MoreA lot of Technology but a Lack of Wisdom – Interview to Environmental Activist Manana Kochladze
In 2004 Manana Kochladze, the founder of the environmental watchdog group Green Alternative based in Tbilisi, Georgia, was awarded the Goldman Environmental Prize for her ecological…
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Let’s Not Burn Our Future. Interview to Rossano Ercolini
In the 1990s, the citizens of the Lucca province were going to see the construction of an incinerator, which would have had a strongly…
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What Is the Great Garbage Patch?
A Large Unmapped Island… of Trash There is a very large island floating on the Northern Pacific Ocean. If you have never heard of…
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A Human Being, First of All. A Portrait of Physicist Jozef Rotblat
The Strangest Dream is the title of a documentary film by director Eric Bednarski on the life of Sir Jozef Rotblat, a Polish physicist with…
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How to Create Unity Towards a Common Goal – Interview to Oscar Olivera
El pueblo unido jamás será vencido. The title of this song from the legendary South American band Inti-Illimani has long been the slogan of…
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The Real Meaning of Growth in a Sustainable World. Interview to Hazel Henderson
“This is a time for action,” writes Peter Drucker in Knowledge Society. And “active” seems the right word to define the life of Hazel…
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A Time for Action “A pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity; an optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty.” Winston Churchill’s words are…
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