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LettUs Grow – University of Bristol students fight food waste with ingenious household salad garden
A group of students from the University of Bristol have singled out a little-known area in which we needlessly waste food and found a way...
Matthew Palaczy
May 27, 20163 min read
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The Zero Cost Canteen
The Zero Cost Canteen (0円食堂) is part of the Popular Japanese television show: The Iron Hand Dash! ( ザ!鉄腕!DASH!!). First aired by Nippon...
Matthew Palaczy/ Qi Sun (Translation)
May 24, 20163 min read
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Vegetarian Diets for School-Aged Children – A Portuguese manual aiming to encourage and advise famil
The environmental, moral and indeed financial implications of a meat-based diet have led more and more people around the world to embrace...
Matthew Palaczky
May 12, 20161 min read
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Emmaus
After the Second World War, Europe needed more than ever people of good will. In 1949, one of the world’s most important initiatives...
Anna Sikora / Matthew Palaczky
May 10, 20163 min read
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‘Creating Real Utopias in the 21st Century’
‘Creating Real Utopias in the 21st Century’ A two day festival in partnership between the University of Bristol’s Anticipation Research...
Utopia 500
May 4, 20166 min read
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Drawing and Photography International Contest (DPic) A rchitecture, Art and Image (AAI) - UTOPIA500
DPic: Architecture, Art and Image – Utopia 500 is an international Design and Photography competition aimed at undergraduate and...
Alex Von Doorn
May 2, 20163 min read
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Portugal: +MUSICA+AJUDA - How Music Can Help the People.
It's a gloomy, rainy Wednesday and we are hanging around at the Faculty, when a couple of students approach us offering free tickets to a...
Beatrice Senses
Apr 26, 20163 min read
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Keynote speaker of the 17th International Conference of the Utopian Studies Society/Europe: Professo
Viriato Soromenho-Marques is a Professor at the Faculty of Arts at the Universidade de Lisboa and will be one of the keynote speakers at...
Matthew Palaczky
Apr 19, 20161 min read
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FICIS 2016 Braga
A NEW WAY OF THINKING was the motto of FICIS 2015 (International Forum for Smart and Sustainable Communities), a leading event of Smart...
Rita/Christina
Apr 18, 20162 min read
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Szlachetna Paczka
Christmas is, for the huge majority of us, an exciting time of the year. We generally associate the festive season with family, good...
Anna Sikora / Alex von Doorn
Apr 18, 20162 min read
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Les Restos du Cœur – The French institution fighting food waste and hunger
Thanks to throwaway culture and consumer trends and practises, it is evident that food waste is more of an issue in industrialised...
Matthew Palaczky
Apr 15, 20165 min read
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Keynote speaker of the 17th International Conference of the Utopia Studies Society/Europe: Professor
(Richard Kearney at the Theatre of Change, 2016) Richard Kearney holds the Charles B. Seelig Chair of Philosophy at Boston College and...
Beatrice Senese
Apr 14, 20161 min read
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CALL FOR PROPOSALS: THE USES OF UTOPIA
CALL FOR PROPOSALS THE USES OF UTOPIA 26 June 2016 Clare College, University of Cambridge A SYMPOSIUM AND CELEBRATION ON THE 500TH...
Rita/ Qi
Apr 14, 20162 min read
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Woodstock Festival Poland
We recently wrote an article about The Orchestra of Christmas Charity and their great project – The Grande Finale – which takes place...
Artur/ Matthew
Apr 12, 20164 min read
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Starbucks joins the fight against food waste
The problem of food waste is one of the major challenges facing our world today. The issue is particularly pressing in the US, as...
Matthew Palaczky
Apr 7, 20162 min read
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