There is barely anything as brutal as travelling. There is barely anything as brutal as travelling alone. What people say is: it takes you out of your comfort zone. But this sterile term doesn’t even get close to what travelling does to you. And I haven’t even done it right, yet. I haven’t even left …
— MacIn-What? At the end of July I had the honour to not only partake in the Annual Meeting of the ISME in Saint Louis, USA but also hold a presentation there myself. This entry is supposed to offer a tiny introduction to who Alasdaire MacIntyre is and portray what I have to do with …
… or a million tomatoes instead? Grocery-shopping at Marché Jean-Talon, Montréal. Made me think of this good old song: “Barack Obama is the president of the United States of America Barack means “Peach” in Hungarian The Presidents of the United States of America have a song called “Peaches” Illuminati” (Youtube comment, Vojtěch Hájíček (Hajda)) I’m …
So, before we get started with this blog again I am very happy to announce my re-launch of the web-side. Miša was so kind to put a lot of work in it, reorganizing the structure, the layout and the content (many thanks!). We didnt get the chance to celebrate it yet, but I am sure …
The 4th international Degrowth-Conference took place from the September 2nd til 6th in Leipzig/Germany. I was there in order to write about it for a paper and had the chance to see some of the very interesting panels and scientific debates. Degrowth questions the mainstream economic idea of constant growth which is supposed to be …
Last weekend was a big date for the German urban gardening scene – the third nation-wide urban gardening meeting took place. And it was a big day for me particularly, as me and my urban gardening team in Nuremberg had the honour to host this big event. We had about 80 guests from more than …
Let’s assume you’re vegan. Is it OK to dumpster dive (or skip, as the Brits would say) meat or animal products? Which moral implications does this problem face? For a lot of people I know, who are vegans or vegetarians it is a clear thing that they “can” (respectively “want to” or “allow themselves …
It’s damn time to start writing again. Can hardly believe it’s been over half a year since my last entry… but well, I’m not gonna tell you anything about how time’s flying by now… I guess you all know best yourself. Can’t exactly say it’s been boring lately. I had my first confrontation with “professional” …