Eco123 Revista da Economia e Ecologia
Saturday 21st January 2023. Many state schools in Portugal are currently closed, as the teachers are on strike once again. The plan is to pressure the Ministry of Education. This …
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Short Stories
Nº 140 – We’re all equal, right? Or are some more equal than others after all?
Saturday 14th January 2023. Today’s big news was this: humanity has crossed the threshold of eight billion. So what do the good teachers of Portugal do? What will we remember …
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Tiny Forests are part of the solution
Forests store CO2, forests store water, forests keep cities cool, forests ease droughts, forests protect against erosion. This is a list that could go on and on. A forest that is …
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Stop talking. Start planting.
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 …
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Nº 139 – Off to Portugal… by Rail?
Saturday, the 17th of December 2022 Now, the other day I was reading in ECO123 that the town of Monchique was threatened with extinction. And the same magazine carried an …
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Nº 138 – Word gets around! A guest contribution by Matthias Toying
Saturday 3rd December 2022. So these days Monchique is hosting a walking festival. In the run-up to the event, a lavish publicity campaign was already announcing, in several languages “hikes …
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Nº 137 – São Brás de Alportel Council makes a positive but challenging assessment of its first year
Saturday 19th November 2022. “We can say that we have achieved a great deal, but we have had to adapt” to many new challenges, said the Mayor of São Brás …
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Nº 136 – The 200 Plants of Portugal’s Southwestern Coast.
Saturday the 15th of October 2022. Today I would like to tell you about a book that is well worth reading, published in both Portuguese and English. This is in …
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Nº 135 – Which value do we place on our nature?
Saturday the 1st of October 2022. Forests store CO2, forests store water, forests keep cities cool, forests ease droughts, forests protect against erosion. This is a list that could go on …
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Nº 134 – Something that’s more important than money. A first-hand report by Uwe Heitkamp
Saturday 17th September 2022. Less is more. The particular, the fact of having less water available presumably spells more thirst. In times of climate crisis, living with this and managing …
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