Research finds plenty of inequality in who gets clean surroundings, who gets a real say and who can reach the courts, but far less organising under the banner of justice. EJUC, an EU-funded project that 2Celsius is part of, is [...]
Glacial lake of Șureanu, home of a vast population of alpine newts A sociological study shows that residents of the town of Cugir have a close relationship with the natural surroundings of the locality and overwhelmingly support protecting [...]
In July 2008 I had the joy of meeting Reinhold Messner at his "workplace", high up in the Dolomites. Surpassing emotions, I interviewed him and I gave that surreal meeting a Carpathian twist. Happy Birthday to the greatest mountaineer ever! [...]
After a long long break, I delved into Ivan Illich's Tools for Conviviality (1973). He turns on a distinction between "convivial" tools, which extend a person's own powers and stay under that person's control, and "manipulative" or industrial tools, which [...]
Civil disobedience movements, are being treated repressively, believes Ariane Lambert Mogiliansky, professor at the Paris School of Economics, and active member of Scientists Rebellion. "We are increasingly treated like criminals, eco-terrorists, or people who do bad things that society must [...]
It is already commonplace to talk about the positive impact on mental health of time spent in nature. It is a field whose research base and applications are currently developing in many studies. Here, however, we are also interested in [...]
Trump’s win is not due to his merit, but to the demerits of those who lost. After many decades of massive (neoliberal) development in almost all of the Western world - let me include Central and Eastern Europe therein, after [...]
So if methane is this big a problem, what tools do we have, and are we using, to solve it? The first global agreement that methane was a problem came in the form of the Global Methane Pledge announced at [...]
Today we are celebrating Carpathian Day. As the new European Commission is in the making, we would draw the attention of the Brussels’ politicians and bureaucrats that mountains are not merely support for ski slopes, but a home for vibrant [...]
Natural gas is the ideal bridge fuel to support the global energy transition, or so the story goes. But what about methane emissions? Environmentalists want us to throw it on the pile of the other fossil fuels and doom it [...]