If you have not listened to act two of this episode (555) of This American Life I would like to recommend it. Why and when do we change our minds? One thing is certain – it is not easy to change ones own mind nor ones habits and certainly not to change someone else’s mind or habits. Reporter […]
När man känner att det mesta i världen går mot ett håll som verkar allt annat än hållbart känns det viktigt att engagera sig. Under mitt liv har det varit enormt viktigt att engagemang mig i projektet som gett mig en känsla av jag som privatperson verkligen kan göra något för en hållbarare värld. Det är […]
En liten uppdatering av mitt permakulturprojekt. Det växer så det brakar just nu för att det regnar ju varje dag i södra Finland. Jag satte potatis och planterade lök och sådde litet sallad i kanten. När regnet slutat falla och det torkat upp i gräset ska jag kratta ihop gräsklippet på gräsmattan och täcka jorden igen. […]
A way to deal with the frustration that you feel when dealing with really ignorant people like the guys on the United States House of Representative Committee on Science, Space and Technology is to make fun of them – to laugh at their stupidity. HOW can we in any other way deal with the frustration […]
An informative and good article about my “slow” projects in Stockholm in the Slow Travel Stockholm online magazine.
‘Build the City’ is the theme of the 2015 European Cultural Foundation Call for Ideas. Our project idea “Ekenäs Story Caravan” was selected as one of 50 ideas from all of Europe to join the Idea Camp in Botkyrka in Sweden in September 2015. This is our idea: “Ekenäs Story Caravan” aims to deepen local engagement and co-governing […]
Since the financial crisis began in 2008, Marinaleda has shot to fame — and so has its maverick mayor Juan Manuel , who earned the nickname,”The Spanish Robin Hood,” after organizing and carrying out a series of supermarket raids in a direct action protest last August. Basic groceries such as oil, rice and beans were […]
Emelie and all you other graduates of class 2015: Congratulations! Go out into the world and follow this advice and you will be fine! […]
Ylva Rancken-Lutz
"I am linked therefore I am" 