Construyendo la España Federal

We'll Never Turn Back - Mavis Staples

La carrera musical de la gran Mavis Staples abarca más setenta años de gospel y rhythm and blues, míles de conciertos y decenas de discos. Una vida intensa marcada por su amor a la música y su compromiso social contra el racismo junto a Martin Luther King. Viendo lo que está pasando en Virginia, sus canciones suenan hoy más actuales que nunca. 

 

Chris Burkard: The joy of surfing in ice-cold water

Traveling to pursue the farthest expanses of Earth, C. Burkard works to capture stories that inspire humans to consider their relationship with nature and promote the preservation and value of wilderness. 

Salish Sea: A Legacy Moment

Since 2014, SeaLegacy has worked with grassroots partners to protect some of the most precious marine environments. Today, together with Salish Sea residents and neighbours, they pledging to protect this inner sea of outstanding universal cultural and environmental value.

 

Salish Sea - A Legacy Moment from Sea Legacy on Vimeo.

Let's Talk Trash

Only we humans make waste that nature can't digest.

Enoughness: Cristina MIttermeier

Have you ever asked yourself how much is enough? Cristina MIttermeier's stunning images of indigenous peoples shine lights on conservation issues, culture and tradition to remind us that we are all part of an interconnected world where happiness is only due to 10% of material stuff.

Brexit

All of Europe’s history since the second world war tells us that the political class on the continent totally reject this view and will fight to the last breath to keep Europe together. Unlike the British Brexiteers, they know that the real alternative to the EU is the centuries-old curse of European civilisation: nationalism. As the former French president, Francois Mitterrand, put it in 1995 in his farewell speech to the European parliament: “le nationalisme: c’est la guerre’. In five simple words, that is the case for Europe. — Roger Liddle.

How Navigation Makes Us Human

Living implies change and thus movement, and since navigation is the art of computing where we are, where we’ve been, and where we are going, it's not an exaggeration to say that navigation in its myriad forms is not only a crucial survival tool but the prime expression of living. Our brains evolved by navigating (...) GPS and similar technologies over the last twenty years have rendered the hard-won navigational skills of individual humans obsolete. For the price of a smartphone or an internet connection, we can be led with astonishing precision to any point on the globe, and we don't need to know a single detail about how it's done. But does such ease come at a cost? Will putting all our faith in GPS and related technologies diminish us in some way? Does the ensuring inability to get lost somehow sap our ability to seek and find new directions geographical and otherwise?

George Michelsen Foy –Finding North: How Navigation Makes Us Human.

Atlas for the End of the World

"Cartography is never merely about the drawing of maps: it is the making of worlds." — Brian Harley

Coming almost 450 years after the world's first Atlas, this Atlas for the End of the World audits the status of land use and urbanization in the most critically endangered bioregions on Earth. 

It does so, firstly, by measuring the quantity of protected area across the world's 36 biodiversity hotspots in comparison to United Nation's 2020 targets; and secondly, by identifying where future urban growth in these territories is on a collision course with endangered species. 

By bringing urbanization and conservation together in the same study, the essays, maps, data, and artwork in this Atlas lay essential groundwork for the future planning and design of hotspot cities and regions as interdependent ecological and economic systems.

http://atlas-for-the-end-of-the-world.com/

Colombia's Lego Homes

More than 300 million tonnes of plastic are produced every year, yet just a fraction of this is recycled. Most of the waste usually ends up in landfills, waterways and oceans. If we use just 2% of the waste plastic in the world, we can change the lives of millions.

Conceptos Plasticos, founded by architect Oscar Mendez, collects recyclable plastic material, melts it down and moulds it into bricks which are then used to build houses for the local community. The company has already helped to house 42 families displaced by conflict in the town of Guapi, Colombia, recycling 120 tonnes of plastic in the process.

The Boiling River - Andrés Ruzo

At a time when everything seems mapped, measured and understood, this river challenges what we think we know.

Poetry, Music and Identity - Jorge Drexler