Category Inspiration
Kulturupplevelser i kampen för en mera demokratisk värld
När jag följer med nyheterna och ser våra dagars förintelser av folkgrupper kan jag inte förstå att vi inte kommit längre än vi har när det gäller allas lika värde till existens på vår jord. Inte kan jag heller undvika att märka vissa skrämmande strömningarna i samhället idag som påminner om 30-40-talets Europa. Jag tror […]
WITHIN WALKING DISTANCE: An Urban Photo Collective Exhibition
Originally posted on Streetsigns:
The twenty-first century isn’t just a new era: it’s a different world. Over half the planet’s population now live in cities – urban cultures demand and deserve special focus. The ways we live, the ways we work, the ways we move, and the ways we understand ourselves and one another are…
What should I do with my life?
What are you passionate about? That is the advice I give young people (and older too) who are thinking about what to do next in life. And I follow the same rule myself. Life is too shortnot to. Why tell young people to get an education which prepares them for a job they don’t like […]
Donkeys, goats, sheep and llamas help the airport
Many thought Chicago O’Hare was kidding when it revealed plans to introduce a herd of goats to graze on grass and weeds in a hard-to-mow parts of the airport. Well, it wasn’t, they unveiled its newest workers yesterday – 25 goats, sheep, llamas and small donkeys as part of the Chicago Department of Aviation’s Sustainable Vegetation […]
A donkey as a slow travelling companion
We had a donkey for many years. It is a very intelligent, affordable and durable animal. Donkeys have been used as a working animals for at least 5000 years and has been a travelling companion for many travellers: Rediscovering donkeys Yet where would travel be without all those slow journeys of yesteryear? Adventures like Patrick Leigh Fermor’s long walk across […]
Slow travel
Lets join the Slow travel movement when possible: “In the same way that the Slow Food revolution has created a compelling antithesis to the burgeoning Fast Food business, Slow Travel encourages people to resist “Fast” Travel – the frustratingly frequent habit of speeding through all the best known landmarks of a city in 24 or […]
Har vi råd att inte ha klimatångest?
Jag tror inte det. Här är ett mycket bra program i SR om klimatångest och vad de kan leda till. När klimatförändringarna och dess följder kom nära gick Idah Magnusson igenom en existentiell kris.
Clare Danes and Damian Lewis shape Homeland
What would Homeland be without them and Mandy Patinkin (Saul).
The Pale Blue Dot
One of Bradley Manning’s inspirations before he leaked the documents to Wikileaks was Carl Sagan’s reflections on the Pale Blue Dot. “Look again at that dot. That’s here. That’s home. That’s us. On it everyone you love, everyone you know, everyone you ever heard of, every human being who ever was, lived out their lives. The aggregate of our […]
MILJÖSKRIKET: Unga i Stockholm skriker ut sin frustration över miljön!
I samband med att FNs klimat panel IPCC släppte sin senaste rapport i Stockholm så samlades flera hundra utanför Münchenbryggeriet för att skrika ut sin klimatångest. Skriket är en del av kampanjen klimatskriket som drivs av Push Sverige tillsammans med fältbiologerna. För mig som växte upp på 1970-talet är det otroligt glädjande och en lättnad […]
Ylva Rancken-Lutz
"I am linked therefore I am" 