Time Banks: Banking as if Time Mattered
In The Picture of Dorian Gray, Oscar Wilde wrote: “Nowadays people know the price of everything and the value of nothing”. More than a...
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Marta Barreiro
- Aug 11, 2016
- 2 min
Haste Makes Waste: Slow Down, Please!
“Dress me slower, please, I am in a hurry”, that was the advice that King Fernando VII told to his assistant, as he did not succeed in...
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Marta Barreiro/Matthew
- Aug 5, 2016
- 2 min
The Minimalists: how to get rid of your stuff while improving our world
In More’s Utopia, Raphael Hythloday is asked to become a king’s adviser, a position that would, supposedly, make him richer and happier....
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Qi
- Aug 3, 2016
- 1 min
EurSafe 2016
The13th Congress of the European Society for Agricultural and Food Ethics will take place in 2016 at the University of Porto, Portugal....
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Marta Barreiro
- Jul 28, 2016
- 2 min
Utopian economics: Christian Felber and the Economy for the Common Good
Have you ever dreamt of an economy for all? Do you think that an economic system which could contribute to both society and the...
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Petra/Matthew
- Jul 26, 2016
- 2 min
Ecotopia: A Sustainable Vision For A Better Future
Date and venue: 17/09/2016, London, UK Ecotopia is a multi-sensory installation exploring the appeal of Utopian thinking in envisaging a...
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Qi/Petra Švob/Matthew Palacazy
- Jul 19, 2016
- 2 min
Leuven Citywide Festival: Utopia Leuven
LEUVEN: CITYWIDE FESTIVAL Leuven celebrates Thomas More: an array of special events Date: 24.09.2016-- 17.01.2017 Leuven celebrates More:...
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Petra Švob
- Jun 15, 2016
- 2 min
After Orlando: Hope for a Better World
The night of June 12th transformed from a regular Saturday evening into a terrible nightmare for the visitors of the Pulse nightclub in...
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Martina Conti
- Jun 15, 2016
- 3 min
Lisa Casali: an Eco-friendly utopian
When the English philosopher Thomas More, wrote his book Utopia in 1516, he also coined the word “utopia”. As it comes from the Greek...
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Qi Sun
- May 31, 2016
- 2 min
utopia:dystopia
utopia:dystopia is a series of exhibitions and events in the city of Bath, inspired by the 500th anniversary of the publication of Utopia...
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Anna Sikora / Matthew Palackzy (Proofreader)
- May 31, 2016
- 3 min
Billions in Change
In a world where most people can’t imagine living without the internet, more than half the human population still does not have power. In...
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Matthew Palaczy
- May 27, 2016
- 3 min
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...
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Matthew Palaczy/ Qi Sun (Translation)
- May 24, 2016
- 3 min
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...
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Matthew Palaczky
- May 12, 2016
- 1 min
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...
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Anna Sikora / Matthew Palaczky
- May 10, 2016
- 3 min
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...
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