How to make a terranium
On this side of the world it is almost winter, and most of our plants have already lost their leaves or have withered, but there’s no reason for not having them at home, specially because they clean our air, and [...]
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CHILE
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ITALIA
Mountain paradise!
With my last entry we ran away from the city to bask in the sunshine on the beach. Maybe it’s the fine summer weather that makes me feel like this, but today I feel the urge to go away and [...]
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PORTUGAL
7 wonders-beaches of Portugal
Finally the heat has come to stay here in Portugal. And almost for every Portuguese, who is lucky enough to live near the coast or near one of our amazing river beaches, this means only one thing – is time [...]
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MEXICO
Good Bye, Lonesome George
Lonesome George was about a 100 years old when his heart stopped recently in the Galapagos Islands. He was the last turtle of his kind. This giant turtle – chelonoidis abingdonii – lived on the Pinta isle, in the Colón archipelago (Galapagos [...]
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PERU
Amazing environmental art
The sculptor Jason de Caires Taylor is an environmental artist who for some years now has dedicated himself to work on underwater sculptures. His sculptures are created to make artificial coral reef into real coral reef, a metamorphosis that takes [...]
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MEXICO
Where the sky is born…
The biosphere reservation Sian Ka’an, on the Quintana Roo coast is a protected natural space and a world heritage site. Its coral reefs, beaches, mangroves, wetlands and lagoons are home to 23 Mayan archeological sites, 103 mammal species and 336 [...]
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Turn your world around
RIO+20 United Nations Conference on sustainable development: Fabrica launches TURN YOUR WORLD AROUND, a communication project in support of the United Nations’ campaign The Future We Want.
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MEXICO
Watching nature
This exercise is nothing new, although the term is: “conservation photography”. There is even the International League of Conservation Photographers, whose mission is to promote environmental and cultural conservation through ethical photography. Conservation photography features techniques from nature photography and [...]
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UK
Clothes on the wall
I was strolling by in Brick Lane and came across this spectacular colourful installation, clothes covering the Stolen Space building from the ground to the roof terrace. It was raining heavily and the clothes were literally soaked and weighing down [...]
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PERU
Mirror, mirror
The work of this Scottish artist Rob Mulholland is incredible. Human sculptures in glass acrylic that are perfectly camouflaged in the environment. His installation, Vestige, comprises 6 sculptures of men and women and is for the author a reflection of [...]
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ITALIA
Do the right thing
Fa’ la cosa giusta is the Italian trade fair dedicated to critical consumption and sustainable lifestyles: a great occasion to learn the principles of ethical consumerism and discover manufacturing systems inspired by the values of sustainability and social responsibility. The [...]
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UK
Postcards from Hong Kong
Having missing out on Christmas, New Year and Lunar New Year in London for the first time in my adult life, I have been vacating in Hong Kong for the past 2 months and stayed in the rural countryside in north [...]