Building a brighter future The title sounds cheesy but we really mean it! Topics of the day: earthships, activist at heart, Bundestag elections, what politics should be about In the morning I cycled over to Roti’s house (while Raphael went to see someone at SEDEP) on the way I passed a bus full of children…
Virgin soil of thought Pape’ete Topics of the day: reading, health insurance, land reform, Maeva, Roti Raphael worked on different logos for our bicycle action and went to book his flight home while I sat on the roof and read about a new, just and simple health insurance system (which rewards a healthy lifestyle and…
Bundles of Energy Pape’ete Topics of the day: Terii Vallaux, feed-in-tariff, petrol subsidies (?!?), children’s home, Roti Today we met Terii Vallaux again and finally got to ask our touchy questions. Apparently the feed-in-tariff is applicable and working – for everyone in Ra’iatea and all the rest of French Polynesia… He admitted that it is…
Kimberley und die Ökodiktatur Kimberley hat die „Ökodiktatur“ gelesen, heute bekam ich Post von ihr aus Tahiti. Hat sie ganz schön gebrettert. Ich kann nur hoffen, dass sie sich von dem Schock, den das Buch durchaus auszulösen vermag, schnell erholt und zurück findet, zu ihrem jugendlichen Optimismus, den wir dringender denn je nötig haben. Zum…
Time to act Pape’ete Topics of the day: oil price, second opinion on OTEC, incompetent politicians Today Nuihau (the author of the book “Energies Renouvelables”) invited us for lunch. He mentioned that stock exchange speculators are starting to become interested in options for 300 dollars per barrel of oil for 5 years from now –…
Maevas Rede Ich arbeite gerade an der Rede, die Maeva zu ihrer Amtseinführung als Generalsekretärin der URP (United regions of the Pacific) hält. Die URP ist eine Gegen-UNO und spielt im Virus eine ziemlich bedeutende Rolle. Es bringt Spaß, diese Rede zu schreiben, obwohl ich sie pausenlos verwerfe, ändere, wieder verwerfe, ändere. Mal sehen, wo…
Capitalism and nature Pape’ete Topics of the day: capitalism, circular versus linear, nature Some readers will have noticed that I didn’t post any blog entries for Sunday – like today we spent reading so there really isn’t much to write… just two thoughts (note: I obviously know nothing about economics)… 1. Capitalism is based on…
Learning Pape’ete Today I cycled over to Roti’s house and we talked pretty much all day (about our bicycle-action, environmental activism in general, politics, spirits, dreams, the system, religion, Rapa and ants). Raphael stayed at „home“ and read (I think). Final thought of the day: I’ve come to the conclusion that I should try to…
Energy slaves and Vélo-toa Pape’ete Topics of the day: energy consumption awareness, smart meters, energy storage, seawater-air-conditioning, smart architecture, OTEC, Rapa, environmental activism, bicycle-warriors Today we actually wanted to meet Terii Vallaux to ask him some (uncomfortable) questions – he probably sensed this and called in sick a few minutes after we arrived in his…
Recovering Pape’ete Topics of the day: reading, depression, optimism I read and contemplated all day – was so depressed that I almost drowned in Weltschmerz (thanks Dirk 😉 but then read Eric and Volker’s positive vision of the future (Equilibrism) and thought about Dirk’s more recent novel (Das Tahiti Projekt) which made me feel a…