summer/ autumn music
Lulu Rouge - intense Scandinavian electronic music for a late summer evening. Lovely! ‘Bless You’ is their debut album. Sigur Rós - their latest album makes its promises of the previous releases more than true. It’s gorgeous again. People who looked at this item also looked at… The Lotus – A Practice Guide for Authentic...
International Youth Day 2008
YOUTH AND CLIMATE CHANGE: TIME FOR ACTION Today is World Youth Day, a day that youth organisations and movements worldwide gather to take action and stand up on climate change. A major focus of the Day is practical action to further encourage the empowerment and participation of youth in the processes and decisions that affect...
This is SCHOOL
Lovely concept, great design. ‘This is SCHOOL’ is a t-shirt that’s a counterpoint to all the negative sentiment the Beijing Olympics has been stirring up. And it is also a reminder that the Olympics is all about UNITY, which the shirt shows by featuring every single competing nation in a yummy word track. Read more...
Actuality / Climate & Energy / Earth & Environment / Globalization & Global Culture / Sustainable Development / War & Terrorism / World
The final countdown
Usually I’m quite an optimist when talking about future-related trends, how to act on climate change etc. But this article in The Guardian struck me quite a lot… Time is fast running out to stop irreversible climate change, a group of global warming experts warns today. We have only 100 months to avoid disaster. Andrew...
Could Globalization Be Going In Reverse?
For the last three decades, it’s been more or less assumed that globalization was a force that moved in only one direction — towards ever-greater integration. And due to the logic of global trade, the assumption of ever greater integration led to the prediction that manufacturing would continue to move from countries with low labor...
Actuality / Architecture / Asia / Developing Countries / Globalization & Global Culture / Politics & International Relations / Society / World
080808: Let the Games Beijng
The Biggest and probably most controversial games in history. It’s a big day for China today. With its opening ceremony of the Beijng Olympics, it hopes to definitely settle its desired image of superpower in a world of shifting power, scarce resources, diverging trends of democracy and varying definitions of human rights. While several world...
Belgian Blog ‘Award’
I was happily surprised today to find an e-mail in my Inbox that I was awarded a Belgian Blog ‘Bokaal’ (literally a jar, but in this case an award) by the Dutch weblog Sargasso, a big name in the Dutch blogosphere. Thanks for the honour! In tradition with following up this award, I have listed...
From world citizen to young internationalist
Time changes, all the time around us. Time flies when you’re having fun. Time can change step by step or it can leapfrog. In such situations, you can do three things: you can sit at the side and watch as a conservative as things go by and the world changes, you can try to row...
Al Gore: A Generational Challenge to Repower America
Al Gore takes the opportunity to address one of the key challenges of this time: he calls upon bold action to make a 100% reduction in non-renewable energy commitment within 10 years, in the US. Can this be called one of the defining moments of the beginning of the 21st century? Would other leaders in...
The true spirit of young people
- By Sandra van Beest, Youth Representative to the United Nations, 2007-2008. As youth representative of the Netherlands I have had the opportunity to represent Dutch young people at the United Nations. Through writing proposals for UN resolutions, negotiating to get the proposals in the UN Resolutions and through addressing the General Assembly, I hope...
