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...
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...
2008 most liveable cities
The Monocle Global Quality of Life Index may one day graduate to adopt a scientific methodology that considers a larger spectrum of cities around the world, but I’m happy to settle for their current coverage and play the my-city-is-better-than-yours game, using the tidbits of quick facts they’ve compiled. For those who don’t buy the magazine...
Actuality / Articles by Christopher Baan / Developing Countries / Photography & journalism / Society / Youth
Rebuild Your Future
New Trailer for the project Rebuild Your Future. In co-operation with the Dutch National Youth Council, The Netherlands Refugee Foundation and UN Youth Representative Wouter Thiebou. See also www.rebuildyourfuture.nl People who looked at this item also looked at… This is SCHOOL How on earth do we want to live together? Virtual Water Strategic Leadership towards...
Robert Fisk: The only lesson we ever learn is that we never learn
Five years on, and still we have not learnt. With each anniversary, the steps crumble beneath our feet, the stones ever more cracked, the sand ever finer. Five years of catastrophe in Iraq and I think of Churchill, who in the end called Palestine a “hell-disaster”. Read more in The Independent… People who looked at...
Authentic
Where are you going? ‘Do you treat life as a journey, with a destination or as a stroll, with no particular objective? If you do see life as a journey – what is your destination, where are you going? ‘ Neill Crofts is founding father and the brain behind a great new concept: Authentic Leadership...
Kosova and Albania: history, people, identity
The creation of an independent Kosovar state highlights the singular relationship between the Albanians of this former Yugoslav territory and their cousins in the Republic of Albania. The scholar and translator Robert Elsie reflects on a turbulent, unfinished history. Read more at openDemocracy… or take a look at the BalkanInsight website… Related items HOME: It’s...
Cycling for Nature Conservation
A couple of friends of mine will start their 6000 km cycle tour through 12 different European countries, soon, from the North Cape to Athens. Their cycle tour is part of a campaign to raise awareness (and funds…) for Eastern European nature conservation projects (WWF, Avalon). Read more on their website (in Dutch) Related items...
Kosovo: the day after
The cost of Kosovo’s independence is the permanent embitterment of its Serb minority. When the tears of joy and despair dry, a fresh diplomatic solution will be needed, says Timothy William Waters. After a decade of waiting and months of intense manoeuvring, Kosovo’s assembly unilaterally declared independence on the afternoon of 17 February 2008. The...
