Cocoa
By Henrike Christ Everybody loves it. It’s the most popular sweet. You can get it all over the world and it’s one of the most produced. We all are eating it a lot without reflecting where it comes from....
Reclaiming our Meat Production
We all know there are problems with the meat industry. For those of us willing to learn, and to invest some time and money, there are viable alternatives. Here’s how we took back a part of our own food...
Discussing Sustainability at the Arab-European Young Leaders Forum in Doha
By Ansgar Fellendorf In the first week of December I participated for Pangaea Project and my university, the Diplomatic Academy of Vienna, at the 4th Arab- European Young Leaders Forum (AEYLF) in Doha. The event, organized by the Austrian...
Fazenda Almada – our summer project’s partner
In the first week of July we start our tree planting and agroforestry project in Bahia Brazil. We are both excited to explore the area and its community and keen on sharing the acquired knowledge. We will work with...
What is Agroforestry?
Before travelling to the farm Fazenda Almada in less than two weeks to start our tree planting project, we want to shortly describe Agroforestry. The word combination already gives it away, and the concept is as easy as it sounds...
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...
“Make Future Yourself” Youth Congress “Zukunftselbermachen” in Osnabrück
About 150 young people from mainly Germany, but also from Austria, Switzerland and Luxemburg met in the German city of Osnabrück to discuss how they can create their own future and develop projects to start acting. A set of...
Take Action against Climate Change: now and every day!
Climate change is happening and we can feel its effects around the globe now. As a reminder: Here are some ideas (borrowed mostly from extremeicesurvey.org/take-action/) and ways to take action against global warming. It is a man-made phenomenon with...
Sustainable Islands: the case of the Wadden Sea
We, a group of about twenty students, embarked on the sailing boats “Willem Jacob” and “Confiance” in the port of Lauwersoog – a small Dutch fishing town behind the dikes of the famous Wadden Sea. Both boats were more than...
Start of Follow-Up School Project in Port Elizabeth, South Africa
We arrived at the Fontein Primary school in Port Elizabeth for the first time after our stay in 2012 – almost one and a half years later! We found that everything at the school was still up and running...