20 May 2012

Cheers, it works again

A memetical about giving your stuff a second life, and having a beer meanwhile

Have you ever checked how much stuff you had to waste and re-buy, just because the old piece broke down?  Did you ever wish there was a place to go and have it fixed instead?  Well, now there is. At the Repair Cafe, you have a beer and have your bike fixed at the same time. For little money or for free.

Everyone agrees that it is ok to use stuff as long as you can. But everyth .......
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Why bigger, if smaller we can?

Growing bigger seems to be in our blood. Economists tell us that it is good to grow on.  Looking at nature we see nothing alike. So why do we continue to believe that’s the right way?
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Green your life, change perspective

Why do we do things the way we do them? Rethinking our motives may lead to surprising solutions.  Like this one. For as long as we know we grow food in the countryside. In the cities, where consu .......
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If climate can change, so can we

From the moment the words ‘climate change’ entered our daily conversations, the human kind has been held hostage by statistics about rise in temperature and sea level. The abstract but pot .......
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A silver bullet for a new economy?

There always have been people who wanted things to change, all over history. Once every so many years, their numbers grow to a level that things start to change indeed. We are approaching that level r .......
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Black Berry Sunday

A new phenomenon hit the London streets on a seemingly random Sunday in August: robmobs, orchestrated flash mobs targeted at robbing shops and in some cases even fellow robbers.

Looters com .......
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