About the author

Paula Lopes da Silva Graduated in Biology, with training in Quality and Management. Civil servant at a Municipality. An Environment activist, was board member in national and european NGOs. Also interested in good governance, transparency and responsibility of NPOs. Likes history and historical recreation, drawing, cartooning and performing. Roman Catholic.

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

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

Culinária medieval

Culinária medieval

Na sequência da Ceia Medieval realizada a 8 de Maio em Alhos Vedros, e da palestra “Mouros e Cristãos no Tempo de D. Afonso Henriques” por José Manuel Vargas realizada a 15 de Maio também em Alhos Vedros, pela associação Alius Vetus,… Read more

Microcredit in EUrope

Microcredit in EUrope

Or discredit fighting poverty in Europe? Microcredit is s system founded by the economics professor Mr. Muhammad Yunus, known as the banker of the poor. He aimed to give the very poor people a chance, namely those who could never get a normal… Read more

UM MONTE DE LIXO – WHAT ELSE?

UM MONTE DE LIXO – WHAT ELSE?

Ou a saga do último dos Rs Que me perdoem os fãs do café expresso e sobretudo as fãs do Sir George Clooney, mas a nova máquina de café e nescafé, inspiradora de congéneres de várias marcas, é – pode dizer-se – uma autêntica… Read more

REN, Cidades e Calamidades

REN, Cidades e Calamidades

Cerca de 1 mês e meio depois do desastre que se abateu sobre a Ilha da Madeira, é tempo de pensar em termos de médio e longo prazo. E não só sobre a Madeira, mas sobre todo o território nacional. O problema da impermeabilização de solos… Read more

Trondheim: A realistic or idealistic biodiversity “target”?

Trondheim: A realistic or idealistic biodiversity “target”?

Recent echoes on the on-going discussions about setting a new target for Biodiversity in 2020, make us think the question seems to be if the target must be either realistic or something more close to the ideal we want to achieve. Indeed a… Read more

URGENTE! Diversidade de Acções para Cuidar a Biodiversidade

URGENTE! Diversidade de Acções para Cuidar a Biodiversidade

Esta apresentação insere-se no tema geral do conceito e da ética do “Cuidar”, tratando-se aqui de cuidar da natureza e cuidar o futuro do planeta Terra. Apresentada no Ciclo de Conferências “A Dimensão do Cuidar na… Read more

Save and Restore our Natural Capital! A Message to Davos.

Save and Restore our Natural Capital! A Message to Davos.

Environment NGOs from many countries in Europe attended this week in Madrid a Conference on Biodiversity, promoted by the Spanish Presidency of the European Union. Knowing that the leader of the study The Economics of Ecosystems and… Read more

Biodiversity – Phrasing a New (meaningful) Target

Biodiversity – Phrasing a New (meaningful) Target

Phrasing a new target to replace the passed “Halt of Biodiversity loss by 2010” is quite difficult. First because we failed to achieve the target in 2010. If we keep the same phrasing and just replace the time line by a new one, people may… Read more

2010 | Ano Internacional da Biodiversidade

2010 | Ano Internacional da Biodiversidade

New year is just around the corner and this one aims to be the one about Biodiversity. We leave here some citations as a sign of hope and for latter rememberance. We should preserve every scrap of biodiversity as priceless while we learn to use it… Read more

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