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War and Peace.

Webmaster — Sat, 15 Mar 2025 08:00:06 +0000

Throughout the history of our planet Earth, there have always been peoples and tribes prepared to wage war. And if we consider just the last few centuries, we can see that the countries of Europe have somehow come to play a major part in this process. However, this way of looking at things limits our …

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Creativity in the wild.

Webmaster — Sat, 01 Mar 2025 08:00:17 +0000

Peace in nature, peace with nature and the reconciliation of culture with nature. These are the aims of the First International Sculpture Symposium to be held at the Botanical Garden in Esgravatadouro, Portugal. After the tragedy of 2018, in which enormous amounts of CO2 were released into the atmosphere when more than 280 km² of …

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Attention, attention: the USA is bankrupt!

Webmaster — Sat, 22 Feb 2025 08:00:40 +0000

Don’t leave the world to the madmen: The real reasons behind the customs tariffs and other harassments. By Theobald Tiger Those who deny climate change and those who have to organise their finances with their backs to the wall sometimes betray even their best friends – just to make sure that they themselves can survive. …

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Giving something back

Webmaster — Sat, 15 Feb 2025 08:00:34 +0000

Leaving the world in a better state than you found it. The other day, a woman from a group of visitors came up to me and asked me why I was doing all this to myself. I replied that I had something to give back in my lifetime. I am a journalist and have seen …

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Self-sufficiency through permaculture.

Webmaster — Sat, 08 Feb 2025 07:00:40 +0000

Saturday, 8th February 2025. The Esgravatadouro Cooperative, Cooperativa do Ambiente CRL, the publisher of ECO123, runs the Botanical Forest Garden in Caldas de Monchique and is organising another permaculture workshop in the Botanical Forest Garden this spring. Terraces have been laid out in a steep valley that offers sweeping views over the entire Algarve, as …

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The Invaders, third part.

Thomas Reuffurth — Fri, 02 Jun 2023 21:11:06 +0000

Saturday 3rd June 2023. Rural Exodus and Water Shortages. And so it came about that on the third day Lenz walked around Monchique and back to Caldas. Like every morning, Lenz started with an intense contemplation of nature, something that formed an integral part of his study of philosophy, asking himself the question what kind …

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The Invaders, second part.

Thomas Reuffurth — Fri, 26 May 2023 20:48:54 +0000

Saturday May 27th, 2023. Part 2: Two days later Lenz carried on his hike, taking the scheduled bus to Monchique, in order to climb up to the convent from the village. Half way along he met a guitar player busking by the wayside who stopped him, asking for money. Walking with a slow pace, secure …

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The Invaders. A tale in three parts, by Uwe Heitkamp, based on Georg Büchner 1839.

Thomas Reuffurth — Fri, 19 May 2023 21:32:13 +0000

Saturday the 20th may of 2023. Part One. On 5 November Lenz was walking through the hills, all by himself. The summits and high mountain flanks were gleaming in the sun, and the valleys below were covered in green after the rain. Brooks were rushing across the rocks, and the eucalyptus trees were swaying in …

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Stop talking. Start planting.

Thomas Reuffurth — Fri, 23 Dec 2022 07:30:29 +0000

Planting trees is the most effective measure against the overheating of the Earth. Maybe in a few years‘ time humanity will come to the realisation that part of our salvation lies in rebelling, i.e planting trees as if our lives depended on it and reanimating landscapes wherever possible… This is the way 48-year old Jochen …

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What’s the value of Nature?

Thomas Reuffurth — Fri, 23 Dec 2022 05:33:21 +0000

From time immemorial, Nature has been providing us with our essentials, including fruit, cereals, fish, meat and wood. Clean air and clean water are other free gifts of Nature. Economists group all these aspects together under the concept of natural capital. Put simply, natural capital is defined as the stock of natural goods and services, …

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