First do read the brief. Yet, if I ever forget what an oxymoron is, the most recent and handiest example will be easy to find. Bucharest City Hall has announced a Low Emission Zone. It will be rolled out gradually [...]
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 [...]
What does it cost to see a doctor when you live on the Sulina branch of the Delta, or in a hamlet in the Apuseni? Sometimes a big share of your pension. Sometimes you don't get there at all. The [...]
EJUC is an EU-funded project supporting marginalised communities and advocates to address environmental injustice and advance fundamental rights-based environmental policies across Europe. The objective is to strengthen the capacity of communities, human rights lawyers, and other stakeholders to advance intersectional, [...]
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 [...]