Travelling Los Angeles Topics of the day: customs, taro, crutches, Berliner, pilot, student, bus, melting pot, beach, architect Although I absolutely hate flying (I didn’t get sick this time) the time went by quite fast (thanks to the lack of sleep I had accumulated over the last week) and felt a bit down (bad conscience…

Au revoir Tahiti Pape’ete Topics of the day: Musée de Tahiti, final things to do, leaving on a jetplane This morning I went to pick up the pictures and get another something at the market I’d forgotten yesterday. Roti, Hinano and I went to the Musée de Tahiti – they had planned on going anyway…

Saying goodbye Pape’ete Topics of the day: wind turbines, market, time to say goodbye When I woke up I was slightly disoriented – the sun’s up – why didn’t I wake up? Oh, no Raphael missed his flight! His mosquito-net is gone… all his stuff is gone. Okay it’s just me – I seem to…

Time to Pack Pape’ete Topics of the day: Mahé, health care, TNTV, farewell-dinner Today I got some pictures developed and met Mahé who is working on a research project about economics and lagoon preservation in Mo’orea for an NGO that seems to have slightly similar goals to the Equilibrism e.V. (at least in terms of…

So schnell wie die Wirklichkeit ist keine Fiktion Auch für die Zukunftstechnologien gilt, dass die Grenzen des Wachstums erreicht sind. Die Hightech-Metalle Indium, Gallium, Tellur, Tantal oder Neodym, die zur Herstellung von Mobiltelefonen, Flachbildschirmen, Satellitentechnik und anderem Schnickschnack benötigt werden, gehen aus. Das berichtet das Berliner Institut für Zukunftsstudien und Technologiebewertung (IZT)… Eigentlich könnte man…