A pleasant approach on biodiversity awareness

A pleasant approach on biodiversity awareness

There are many pleasant ways to get people approach nature and biodiversity; fieldsketching is one of them. Fieldsketching activities can be promoted as environmental education by NGOs, or local councils. In Portugal that is not a common… Read more

Diaspora, free Facebook for the masses

Diaspora, free Facebook for the masses

This year, Facebook has undergone a number of problems related to privacy of its users. Faced with this, four American students devised a social network of open format, allowing its users and managers to have more control over this aspect: the… Read more

A Lenda

A Lenda

Há quem diga que são aprovadas pelos autarcas para assim poderem encher os cofres da edilidade com taxas de urbanização. Ora, essa é uma lenda urbana extraordinariamente contra-producente que tem sido veiculada pelos ambientalistas, mas que… Read more

Stories of a crusader

Stories of a crusader

Biodiversity and Local History So many species inhabited our lands, rivers and seas in the past. Biodiversity can be “mainstreamed” into local history awareness actions and vice-versa, as indeed natural and historical heritage are both building… Read more

Tour of the Ecological Consumer

Tour of the Ecological Consumer

A circuit on (our) consumption and biodiversity This activity was promoted by the Municipality of Moita, Portugal, last April, with the support of Fenacoop (National Federation of Consumer Cooperatives), a member of Eurocoop, and the cooperative… Read more

Saving biodiversity

Saving biodiversity

Connect and respect In Portugal, at least until the generation of our grand parents, it was usual that when people were eating and by accident droped a piece of bread to the floor, they had to kiss it and eat it after. That kiss meant full respect… Read more

Biodiversity loss – A matter of SECURITY?

Biodiversity loss – A matter of SECURITY?

Mainstreaming Biodiversity into Security initiatives It was at Gabala, Azerbaijan, that this idea crossed my mind; though probably it has already crossed the minds of many other people. It just came out during an NGO discussion. We divided in 3… Read more

The Fantastic Caspian Sea

The Fantastic Caspian Sea

An oil source packed with endemisms As a Portuguese, I never had much interest on inland seas, such as the Black Sea, the Aral Sea, or Caspian Sea. But now, visiting Azerbaijan, a republic of the Caucasus region and having walked by the maritime… Read more

Editoras virtuais e Empreendedorismo

Editoras virtuais e Empreendedorismo

Propus, mais os meus sócios da altura — isto há mais de doze anos — a um grupo de investidores, um projecto igual a este para Portugal; mas com a possibilidade de expansão ao mercado lusófono a médio prazo. Na altura as máquinas… Read more

Draft impressions from Azerbaijan

Draft impressions from Azerbaijan

At least two flights separate Portugal from Azerbaijan, a country on the Caucasus region, facing the Caspian Sea, which once belonged to the Soviet Union, and got its independence since about two decades. During the flight from Frankfurt to Baku,… Read more

A ética e a integridade nas crises

A ética e a integridade nas crises

Esta crise está a ser muito proveitosa para alguns. Enquanto que os lucros da banca e outras grandes multinacionais se mantém em níveis aceitáveis — quando não aumentam — prosseguem os prémios e ordenados escandalosos de gestores de topo… Read more