Paulo Alves is 52 years old and was elected Mayor of Monchique on 26 September 2021. Before that, he worked as a bank manager at Caixa Agrícola, Banco Espírito Santo …
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Prevention is the best form of protection for the forest
Last Saturday, 30 July, ECO123 publicly presented its sprinkler system for the prevention of forest fires. There’s a long story behind this whole process. California has already been constantly devastated …
Read More »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 …
Read More »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 …
Read More »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 …
Read More »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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Nº 133 – FAIR TRADE?My Renault ZOE and the RCI Bank
Saturday 3rd September 2022. In an ideal world, all those aggrieved by a multinational car manufacturer such as Renault or Volkswagen in Portugal, France, Germany, etc. would join forces as …
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Nº 132 – Death of a Salesperson My Renault ZOE and the RCI Bank of Portugal
Saturday 20th August 2020. Sometimes, somebody can turn into a friend of the climate in the blink of an eye, when their fairly new electric car stops working and they …
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