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Fighting for sustainable living: The Bioferia, organic market in Argentina

 "Every Saturday we stand and fight!" Anita Kramarczyk is a s ociologist, educator, traveler, mom, promoter of creative recycling and living in harmony with the laws of Nature, close to Pachamama. She has worked and lived with our partner organization "Fundacja Laja" and is actively involved in the Earth Week and Tea Festival in Cieszyn.  She shares the story of the Bioferia in Mendoca, Argentina:    There are many forms of fighting for your own rights, demonstrating your position, showing your values and visions of a better world, just as there are many ways to have a more balanced life. One of them is living in respect with the laws of Nature, in harmony with its natural cycles, cultivating the earth and ensuring a healthy nourishment. Argentina is a country of contrasts. On one hand, as many as 3.2 million hectares of land are covered by organic farms. On the other hand, transgenic soybean plantations are getting bigger year by year. Initially cov...

Sustainable Mapping: the initiative "Mapping for Good"

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The world is full of explorers, and full of things to be explored. The "Map of Tomorrow"´(German: Karte von morgen) helps us to discover places from an inspiring point of view: you can find forward-thinking projects, companies and soon  also events in your area. Everyone can be part of it and contribute. The map is an open resource that is based on the open street map. It is easy to make entries. Try it out: https://www.kartevonmorgen.org/# The map has been initiated by Ideen³   together with slowtec . It is successfully implemented in Germany and is now aiming at internationalizing the map more and more. Your benefits: It is made by people for people and based on voluntary basis. Support the map by adding new points on the map! You can embed the map on your website.  The labels function like filters. Using specific hashtags in the search bar can help you to find the right things and to embed just a selection of points to your embeded map. You will expl...

Empowering youth of the Danube region

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Future Lab - Krizevci Croatia Stefan Stosic is inspired by meeting new people from different countries. He participated at the project Future Lab in Croatia in the summer of 2017 and got motivated to make a change on local and global level. The project aims at empowering the young generation in the Danube region to rethink and reflect their role in this society and to create new ideas of shaping their future and life sustainably. Stefan is sharing his experience with us:  It was the first time for me to be in project like Future Lab and it was really exciting to meet new people from Germany, Croatia,  Bulgaria, Ukraine, Italy and Serbia.  It was my the first time to be in Croatia too.  All week we were talking about the future, ecology, today's problems and how to change something, how to make a better future for us. We have visited the farm, kindergarten, Development center and technology park Krizevci. Our cordinators were very cool and professional...