The Man Europe Doesn’t Want
Nothing could have prepared me for my first food distribution at the largest refugees and migrants camp in Serbia. One by one, hundreds of men lined up for a plate of hot food which we had cooked that morning....
Recycling Realities: A Perspective on Multi-Layer Packaging
We produce something that has no value to be collected, nor to be recycled. We produce something for which we have no viable technology to handle it. We produce something that is bound to leak into the environment. The...
Mission Accomplished and More to Come: Our Brazil Tree Planting Project
After two eventful, tough and inspiring weeks at Fazenda Almada close to Ilheus, Brazil we successfully finished this year’s tree planting and agroforestry project. We planted 605 tree seedlings, dozens of pineapple, beans, manioc, and other fast-growing crops in...
“Neuwald” – Brazil Tree Planting
Please vote (“Stimme Abgeben”) for financial backing from Google for our project https://goo.gl/CInx4q This summer 2016 we will plant pioneer trees on the Almadafarm near Illhéus in Brazil in order to help and accelerate reforestation in a volatile region. The coastal...
Earthship – Building a Recycled House
I helped to construct a house for two weeks this summer. But it was not a house like any other house. It was an « Earthship ». But what is an « earthship » and where does it come...
Day 5: A successful week is over!
After this exciting week full of painting and excursions we organized the new jerseys and rain jackets today. It will be handed over by Geberit, who sponsored it, in July once the new term has started. We are looking...
Coffee to Go and to Reuse
“If we can make it here, we will make it anywhere” – Our motto at the Sustainable Cup Challenge of the DO School (http://thedoschool.org/) in New York City. The city of brilliant opportunities, but also of around seven million...
“It takes a village to raise a child“ – LIVing for three months
In summer 2012 I joined Mike Horns Expedition to Africa. If not earlier, the visit of the township Masiphumelele was definately when I decided I was going to spend a few months living in Africa to volunteer at a...
“The Ecocamp has changed my way of thinking!”
Looks like our Ecocamp 2013 in Serbia was a great success! Here are thoughts and experiences of some Peer Leaders: Vuk Andjelic I would never expect that something like the ecocamp could change my way of thinking about nature. When...
Discovering Moldova and More
What is the capital of Moldova? Most people probably would remain without an answer. It is Chisinau, or Kishinev, depends on your language. This already shows one of the dividing lines of Moldova. The majority of the former Soviet-republic,...