Communicating awareness 2.0

Buenos Aires. Argentina

“i don’t use plastic bags –thanks”

Andresa Guareschi represents a new generation of communicators, who commit their knowledge of new media for spreading a new, evolving, global awareness on social and environmental matters. / S E E +

Dead Forest by Charly Nijensohn: the work in progress

Balbina Dam. Amazonas. Brazil

Dead Forest sets off to capture a series of images in a tragic landscape.
One of the most distorted landscapes by human action, the Balbina Dam is a political and metaphysical statement by itself: a manifesto about our own failures / S E E +

Marco Bevolo and the next luxuries

Netherlands / Italy

Image Copyright: Keiko Goto, The Netherlands

Design researcher and corporate maverick Marco Bevolo states in his book Premium by Design: How to Develop and Market High End Products, that in times of economic downturn luxury will become, more than ever, synonymous with focus on people and the experience of essentials / S E E +

Cabinet de lecture

Paris. France

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Growing hope in the Arava Desert

Ketura Valley and Kibbutz Lotan. Israel

For the Ketura Wetlands Project, very young Israelis and Palestinians worked together to transform an arid valley into fertile land. The Arava Institute for Environmental Studies is a fine example of the Green Kibbutz Movement, and the wider Sustainable Management Agriculture philosophy / S E E +

Gota Mineral Water

Entre Ríos. Mesopotamia. Argentina

The luxury of the most basic elements: Mineral water from the massive South American Guarani Aquifer is bottled as a premium brand / S E E +

Understanding Nature’s intelligence

London. England

From an unorthodox perspective, between science and religion, the documentary Metanoia shows that Nature is better understood as a self-organizing system, and human evolution depends on our ‘making sense’ within the larger context of the Biosphere / S E E +

Manto is a journey

Northwest Argentina

This brand’s name stems from a Quechua language term meaning “from the sky, from above” –a word still heard in andean villages where textile art is a means of work and permanence of their identity / S E E +

The chances of the world changing

New York. USA 

After an epiphany at a New York restaurant, writer Richard Ogust began dedicating his time and resources to rescuing endangered turtles. When the filmmakers catch up with the 50-year-old writer, he is sharing his Manhattan loft with 1,200 turtles, including five species extinct in the wild. / S E E +

Videos on global warming: the best of the shortest

Iberminuto Festival Spring 08. Madrid. Spain

These short videos could be the first step towards the use of new technologies to share environmental related contents over mobile phone networks, in real time / S E E +