Ecofriendly or just less damaging Pape’ete Today I complained to Raphael that everyone is being so pessimistic and that we still have so much to do and find out – the potential for biomass and the total area of unshaded roofs in Tahiti for example… Pessimism is dangerously contagious: valid storage capacities are either toxic…

The intention counts Pape’ete Topics of the day: bike action In the morning we went over to Roti for some final preparations and then the two of us set off with our wheeled (wo)man-powered transport devices to buy some paper and pencils for the drawing contest, find a megaphone (luckily without success) and assemble at…

Auf ein Wort, Herr Präsident Eric und Robert sind heute nach Tahiti aufgebrochen um an dem Dokumentarfilm über das „Tahiti-Projekt“ zu arbeiten und um dort Gespräche mit Leuten zu führen, die uns weiter helfen können bei der Umsetzung des Projekts. Unter anderem ist ein Treffen mit dem Präsidenten geplant sowie mit einem tahitianischen Verleger. Denken…

Busy Pape’ete Topics of the day: preparing for tomorrow We spent all day over at Roti’s painting the t-shirts, chemises, banners and flags for our bicycle-demonstration tomorrow. Final thoughts of the day: Rudolf is organizing a meeting with Oscar (the president) and James (the energy minister) – since it didn’t work out with Thede and…

Pessimist or realist Pape’ete Topics of the day: press conference, TNTV, EDT, market, sick, translation This morning we had a press conference and not a single reporter showed up – it turned out Roti had sent the wrong time to the press (11:00 instead of 9:00). At shortly past 11:00 (I had already gone back…

Preparations Pape’ete Topics of the day: sponsors, bikes, chemises, kids, online questionnaire This morning Roti, Hinano and I went to look for some more sponsors but (only) got 10 t-shirts (probably made from genetically modified cotton loaded with pesticides and manufactured in a sweatshop by some poor children in China – worst case scenario or…