Short Stories

Saturday 5th October 2024. Jane Goodall, a British scientist and environmental activist, asked the German doctor and scientific journalist Eckart von Hirschhausen: “If we as humans claim to be the …

Saturday  28th September 2024. Ten steps to climate neutrality Part 2 100 multinational corporations emit around 80% of the world’s CO2. Thinking seriously about your own individual carbon footprint is …

Saturday the 21st september 2024. Thinking about our individual carbon footprint can be an important part of the solution to the environmental threats that we face. Of course, we also …

Saturday 14th September 2024. He should not be completely forgotten. 20 years ago, the great economist of the Prague Spring in former Czechoslovakia, Professor Ota Šik, died in exile in …

Saturday 7th September 2024 684,000 is the number that ultimately matters. That’s how many people work for a multinational company in the automobile industry: worldwide and not just in Germany, …

Saturday, 31th august  2024. “We don’t want another Miami here,” says local resident Vítor Lopes (43), from Caramujeira near Lagoa. “Don’t we already have enough tourism?” ECO123 talked to Vítor …

Saturday 24th August 2024. The housing crisis in Portugal is getting worse, and there is a lot that needs to be changed politically in order to resolve it. Until then, …

Saturday 17th August 2024. If a strip of land on the south coast of Portugal has been designated as a nature reserve, surely there should be no power on Earth …

Saturday 10th August 2024. In the southernmost mountains of Portugal, the groundwater is beginning to run out. Monchique’s springs and streams have already dried up. The situation has never before …

Saturday 3rd August 2024. I imagine a friend of mine is celebrating his birthday and invites his 20 best friends to his birthday party. He prepares a cold buffet and …