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SmartGreen Post The United Nations decided to dedicate the decade 2021-2030 to the ‘restoration of ecosystems on every continent and every ocean’. Indeed, damaged ecosystems’ rehabilitation could actually play an essential role in the fight against poverty and climate change.
SmartGreen Post Artisanal salinas across the Mediterranean today face critical times. Confronted with salt-production industrialisation, urbanisation-imposed pressure, and stressful competition from cheaper in-land producers, shoreline salinas are struggling to remain economically viable.
Al Jazeera Two years ago, Nicola Bayless was taking her evening walk in Happisburgh, a tiny village on the eastern coast of England, when a big chunk of the cliff fell down. “It sounded like thunder. Like a click of fingers and it’s gone. You had no chances if you stood under that,” she recalls while sitting on the front step of her home overlooking the sea.
Reset The lights of San Antonio, the English quarter of Ibiza, are down. Its tiny streets, normally packed with British tourists partying at the many bars and nightclubs, are empty. This year, Europe’s most famous party island in the Balearic Islands of Spain is experiencing a summer season unlike any other.
Reset Before the lockdown, 25-year-old Elena Buzzo liked to smoke a few cigarettes while having a beer with her university friends in Dublin. But when Italy closed its borders in early March, she moved back to her parents’ flat and stopped smoking. Since then, she has only smoked three cigarettes in over two months.
Global Hobo Eating is a spiritual practice, and if you do it right, it will boost your health and your mindfulness.” Vaḷḷi, a female meditation guru with a shaved head and clinking anklets, is giving a short lecture on Ayurvedic beliefs.
Internation Concerts running in the bedroom closet, Kim Jong-un’s rescue missions, lianas in the subway. It sounds like the plot of a very weird science fiction novel but no, these are just some of the contents of the bizarre dreams’ epidemic spreading alongside the Covid-19.
Among the sea of signs welcoming Greta Thunberg at the climate strike in Bristol last month, one stood out. Despite not having the artistic finesse of the others, those two words written with black paint on crumpled cardboard hit like a punch: "End Ignorance".
Internation When Mirko talks about his van, he sounds like a proud daddy. He even gave him a name, Ginginsbangi Van, and always refers to it as “my home.” Mirko Zambon, 25, is part of the Vanlifers generation, a group of free-spirited Millenials who live in custom-made vans. They follow a nomadic lifestyle that allows them to live, work and travel on a very low budget.
At first glance, it seems a brewery like any other. Young men with their sleeves rolled up to the elbows sit around wooden tables, sipping their first pint after a long day at the office. Light rock music and the sound of beers tapped plays in the background. But what makes BrewDog AF different is that you cannot order anything alcoholic.
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