In the shade of the big fig tree in my garden, I often sit and ponder the world. I wonder, for example, why, in my microcosm, more and more storks …
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Let Us Build Aquaponics In Our Garden
Want to make your world a greener place? Let Us Build Aquaponics In Our Garden The number of people who take care to enquire where and how their food is …
Read More »UROBORO makes itself useful
Good news from the Higher School of Art and Design in Caldas da Rainha – IP Leiria Uroboro* is a completed research project that has led to an everyday product …
Read More »GEA – a different kind of footprint on earth
GEA means “planet earth” in Greek, and it is the watchword of a company that appears to be a kind of utopia come true. Not just a factory of footwear …
Read More »In search of one’s homeland in Europe
The train may not be the fastest or most modern means of transport but it is one of the most ecological and least polluting. I set off from the Spanish …
Read More »Trust in the village of tomorrow
In a small village in the hills of Portugal, there are three shoemakers living and working. They are the last of their profession. Together they have a total of 250 …
Read More »Heini and the Noah’s Ark
Heini Staudinger (62) is in charge of the GEA – Waldviertel factory, where he has been putting an ecological and sustainable economy model into practice since 1984. This alternative entrepreneur …
Read More »Licence To Spill?
When we talk about the sea, it’s mostly about beaches, holidays, the weather or grilled fish for the lunch table. But we have never given any thought to a small, …
Read More »That’s the way life is
Interview with the fisherman Zeca Águas (55), from Portimão. ECO123: Nowadays, when you observe the amount of fish in the sea and compare it with a generation ago, do you …
Read More »The End of the Oceans?
Interview with Prof. Mojib Latif (61) GEOMAR, Kiel in Germany ECO123: We produce a magazine in which we always try to bring economics and ecology together. Do you think …
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