Short Stories

MED Loulé Hello, cultural diversity! Over three days – Thursday 25, Friday 26 and Saturday 27 June – there will be concerts of world music in Loulé, performed on eight …

This has been a dreadful week for journalists and breaking news. What is there to report? An outbreak of a new virus that originated in the Canary Islands is beginning …

The Algarve is Portugal’s sunniest region, where most of the country’s fruit is grown and harvested: oranges, mangoes, kiwis, grapes, avocados and much, much more… Bananas! The umbrella organisation APCOI …

How can we turn losers into winners? How can a city, a region or a country reduce the environmental pollution caused by transport and by the heating and cooling of …

Leading a successful climate-neutral life presupposes that the overwhelming majority of my readers, the overwhelming majority of my fellow human beings, will understand what I am writing. Achieving this takes …

The town hall has produced a lovely photo for us. It is intended to show the leading characters at a tree-planting event. So, who do we see? The mayor, the …

I’m no know-it-all, but, in this article, I’ll be taking the liberty of speaking freely about ideas, rather than succumbing to a sense of powerlessness. Because unleashing the potential of …

Last week I was asked when would be the right time to sell Homo sapiens’ favourite toy – the car, powered by either diesel or petrol. Now is the right …

This business with plastic bottles cannot continue as it is. Here in Portugal, we have problems to solve that people on other planets solved long ago. And why? Because we’re …

From monoculture to true culture Monchique. The many streets in the village that previously had no name are finally to be given one. Monchique is undergoing a transformation. The fact …