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Japan in Transition – Fujino

Newcomers started doing interesting things when incoming artists were connecting with each other. Because some painters including Tsuguharu Fujita (Léonard Foujita) evacuated to this area during the war, Kanagawa prefecture started economically developing this town as an art town from the late 1980s. Through this development, outdoor art pieces were

Falcon in the Storm #05: The lost promise of Stalin City

There are two towns in Hungary that were entirely built by the dream of socialist industry, from scratch, with no historical background, unlike any other city in the country. One of them was called Lenin City, created for workers of the nearby mines and newly built factories of assorted technologies,

Falcon in the storm #04 – Critical Mass Heaters

Apro’ Tech is an ingenious word game with Appropriate Technology, the movement of achieveing the best possible result with the resources at hand, and the word for ‘tiny’ in Hungarian, which happens to be ‘apró’. It represents the small scale of the energy solutions this team is aiming for, while

Falcon in the storm #3: The Fission Process

What do you think about the necessity of a new nuclear power plant in Hungary? The government based Paks II on assumptions about our reality that are simply not valid anymore. The first assumption is that economic growth requires a higher net energy consumption. A yearly energy demand growth of

Falcon in the Storm #2: The Creep of Solar

In our second guest post from Gergő Benedek, he explores a city community trying to invest in renewables. Wekerle is a unique neighbourhood, situated where the outskirts meet the edge of the Budapest , Hungary. The square-shaped residential area is a protected heritage site, an unlikely ‘garden city’ experiment, built at

The right structures have power – Simon Mitambo on reviving cultural and biological diversity

You are the coordinator of the Africa Biodiversity Network (ABN), you run the Society for Alternative Learning and Transformation (SALT), you participated in the inaugural Earth Jurisprudence programme, and you just founded a school in your home village. This is quite a lot, what links these 4 things you are

Going farther together – the Lake Victoria Peace and Sustainability Centre, Rusinga Island

Why a network and not a group, I asked Solomon Owiti, founder of LVPSC. He asked himself, “How can I reach more people?” and realised that rather than starting an organisation himself, forming a network to bring all the organisations working on Rusinga Island together under a banner of peace,