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Category: environmentalism

  • Day Six of Orca in Switzerland – Stricter measures.

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    Reading Time: 2 minutesToday’ I’d like to discuss stricter measures. Coop and Migros both have online shops set up for home delivery but the system is overloaded by people ordering at the same time. They don’t have the truck fleet or staff to cope with the demand so I suggest a better solution. Both Digitec…

  • Day Four of Orca in Switzerland – Exploring the Trail Less Travelled

    Day Four of Orca in Switzerland – Exploring the Trail Less Travelled

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    Reading Time: 3 minutesToday is Day Four of Orca in Switzerland and I saw that the Canton in which I live has the most active cases of COVID19 so my motivation both to go to shops and to go for walks has taken a hit. At the same time I don’t know whether it’s COVID…

  • Day One of ORCA in Switzerland

    Day One of ORCA in Switzerland

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    Reading Time: 2 minutesDuring the weekend I thought that being in self-isolation would be a pleasant and enjoyable experience. The sound of cars is diminished. More people are walking and going for bike rides and the level of pollution could decline for at least a few days or even weeks. On the flip side I…

  • Outdoor Sports and Pandemics

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    Reading Time: < 1 minuteIn theory, pandemics are terrible for your social life because you go from socialising in bars, pubs, restaurants, cinemas, theatres, and cafés to having to stay home like an indoor cat or a fish in an aquarium. For people like me, the thought of not being in crowds of 50 people…

  • A Homemade Electric Car – Youtube Video

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    Reading Time: 3 minutesOn one side of the Channel, you have people like Colin Furze building fun machines that have the fatal flaw of having an internal combustion engine. On the other side of the Channel, you have people like Marc Gyver building an electric car with easily bought components. The video below shows the…

  • Interdependence – An environmental film in eleven parts

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    Reading Time: 3 minutesLast night I went to see Interdependence, an environmental film in eleven parts. It is a collection of short films that explore environmental themes around the topics of air, water, and earth. When I watched one part it reminded me of Les Vacances de Mr Hulot, a french film from 1953. It…

  • Walking And Finding Old Trees

    Walking And Finding Old Trees

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    Reading Time: 3 minutesWalking and finding old trees is still possible if you look around. If you’re attentive you can find trees that are hundreds of years old. They are massive compared to younger trees. Their trunk is broad and their branches are complex. If you walk around the Mediterranean you will find thousand-year-old olive…

  • Banning Traffic from Cornavin

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    Reading Time: 3 minutesAlthough this article is two years old La Tribune de Genève wrote again about it and it appeared in my Google Newsfeed. I am not opposed to making cities pedestrian because I love to walk more than I like buses, trains, or other forms of transport. I actually do like trains. When…

  • A Windy Day In Geneva

    A Windy Day In Geneva

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    Reading Time: < 1 minuteThey announced that it would be windy today and it is. Windy days are fun because the lake goes from blue or green to English Breakfast tea brown. The waves crash against the walls and spray the promenade that goes from the Pont Du Mont Blanc to the Jardin Anglais. For…

  • Cloud Timelapses

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    Reading Time: < 1 minuteCloud timelapses are fun when you can put the camera somewhere and go and do something else. Yesterday I knew that we would go from blue skies and sparse clouds to overcast and rainy so I set up the camera to record a timelapse. I set the interval to one setting…