I write to experience life twice, in the moment and in retrospect
Findhorn is 60 years old. The pioneering eco-settlement in the Northeast of Scotland continues to play a leading role as a research and development centre for low carbon lifestyles, pursued through a complex melange of dream and vision, dance and chant, technology and spirit, investigation and design, reflection and action, death and renewal.
Read MoreThe United Nations estimated that the world’s population will reach 8 billion next week and India will replace China as the world’s most populous nation next year. As it assumes the mantle of the world’s most populous nation, what can India teach us about how to stimulate an evolving virtuous cycle between human and other living systems?
Read MoreFrom its very blueprint, the SDGs recognise Science, Technology and Innovation (STI) as a key implementation tool toward the achievement of inclusive societies, regenerative environments, open and supportive governance, and sustainable livelihoods.
Read MoreThe convergence of art and activism can widen perspectives, invite thoughtfulness, and raise the voices of those who have lost faith in politics and the socioeconomic systems, through the wild creations of art.
Read MoreThere is a budget revolution taking place in Europe with cities adopting gender sensitive budgets. Known as Budget-Genré in France and Presupuesto con Enfoque de Género (PEG) in Spain, gender responsive budgets adopt gender equality principles as a framework for making decisions in all phases of the budget cycle.
Read MoreWorld leaders pledged again to end deforestation…
This time, the word needs to actually do it!
Read MoreIt is with great anticipation that the global BMW Foundation Responsible Leaders Network and BMW Foundation Herbert Quandt have joined efforts to curate the Equity, Diversity, and Belonging Week #EDB Week21.
Read MoreRecently I have been researching how innovative ways of mapping the presency of contemporary women in cities may support the emergence of emancipatory placemaking perspectives and previously unrecorded narratives.
Read MoreEdge work is the work done in a territory defined by overlapping circles of influence and activity. In ecological systems, the transition or edge between two distinct biological communities is known as 'ecotone'.
Read MoreAt the threshold of the second year of my PhD journey, I realise Je suis en thèse and I mean it. One of the evidences is that I am not only questioning emerging thoughts and synapses between them but also the process of thinking.
Read MoreThe rice terraces of Philippine Cordilleras, the Ligurian coast between Cinque Terre and Portovenere, the Champagne Hillsides with their houses and cellars. What do they have in common? They are cultural landscapes revealing much about our evolving relationship with the natural world.
Read MoreToday we celebrate International Education Day. As an educator, I am in a continuous process of learning from the field.
Read MoreWhen I launched Remota Batucada in the 80s, there were all sorts of repercussions by the press, intelligentsia and public. I did not know that I was laying the foundations of my future ethnographic work in music and in society.
Read MoreA campaign created by a meta-network of Brazilian conservation organisations Bosques da Memória is set to honour the victims of the pandemic and health workers and, at the same time, encourage forest restoration under the UN Decade the Decade of Ecosystem Restoration (2021-2030).
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