Mixed feelings Pape’ete Topics of the day: Pierre, crisis, public participation solar farm, socialising In the morning Eric, Robert and I went to meet Pierre Blanchard (the independent consultant) while Raphael went to the TEP again to get a plan of the electricity grid. He showed us his house which is crammed with thousands of…

Allies Pape’ete Topics of the day: Nuihau, TNTV, Pomare, planning At 7:30 we met Nuihau, Robert and Eric at the “Royal Tahitien” (the hotel the two are staying at which is also mentioned in the book – good job Dirk: you described the place in such detail that I thought I’d been there before). Nuihau…

Happy 🙂 Pape’ete Topics of the day: Eric and Robert, regional currency, documentary film Today Roti and Rudolf picked up Robert and Eric at the airport because we thought we’d have an appointment with TNTV. It turned out we didn’t so we went to the bike-shop to get some spare parts (brake pads) for Vaitua’s…

Brief an die Hart und Fairs im Fernsehen „Wenn Demokratie etwas verändern könnte, hätte man sie längst verboten.“ Nicht schlecht, der Satz, oder? Stammt von dem russischen Anarchisten Michail Bakunin (1814 – 1876). Etwa hundert Jahre nach dessen Tod äußerte sich Sithu U Thant in seiner Eigenschaft als dritter Generalsekretär der UNO wie folgt: „Ich…

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…