Gastronomy, tourism, audiovisual production, human resources, digital marketing, decoration, carpentry, event spaces, coaching and training and family support services were the areas represented by new entrepreneurs from São Brás at the fifth edition of the Business Ideas Forum that the Municipality of São Brás de Alportel held on 25 June at the São Brás Cineteatro Jaime Pinto. I recently visited …
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Anyone who uses these words as the foundation stone of their political programme is suffering from a severe mental disorder that should lead to their spending a great deal of time with a psychiatrist. I’m not surprised that the so-called “anti-social media” like Facebook, Instagram and X are bringing their nonsense from America and polluting the world around me. The …
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Saturday 12 April is a date that should be recorded in the diary of every garden owner or amateur gardener in the Algarve. On this day, the Algarve Museum of Costume in São Brás de Alportel (Sotavento) will be hosting a garden fair dedicated to one of the most important topics in the region: which indigenous dry plants should I …
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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. The United States of America …
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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 so many trees turned into …
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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 far as the south-west cape. …
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Saturday 18th january 2025. The pictures and films we are currently seeing from California are disturbing. At this very same moment in time, we are installing the tenth high-power sprinkler in our own forest, while we receive the news that the forest and mountains near Los Angeles are ablaze and the winds are mutating into storms and fuelling the fires …
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Saturday 11th January 2025. A Happy New Year to all our readers in 2025! As guardians (or rather graveyard keepers) of the language, neither the German nor the Portuguese publishing houses could bring themselves to give the Italian writer, doctor, painter and politician Carlo Levi, born in Turin in 1902, a permanent place in their literary programmes. The fear of …
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Saturday 14th December 2024. According to the Copernicus Climate Change Service, the EU’s Earth Observation Programme, this current year is set to be the warmest since records began. I couldn’t look away, for I have always kept a close eye on things, so that I also treat trees if I have to and am allowed to. When the bark beetle …
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Saturday 19th October 2024. Every botanical garden has something magical about it. Whenever I visit a botanical garden, I imagine that I am immersed in a magic world of trees, plants and little hidden animals. Furnas, on the island of São Miguel in the Azores, enchanted me from the very beginning. By chance, I had my swimming trunks and a …
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