People and Money Pape’ete Topics of the day: city hall, sponsors, waste incineration Today we met Raurani who wants to help us with our bicycle-action (it’s really good to know the movement won’t die off once we’re gone, since Roti won’t have time to take care of it/will be back in Rapa). Raurani is an…

Paperwork …wonder who will want to read a blog entry with that title – for nerdy readers only 😉 Topics of the day: sponsors, newsletter, children, invitations This morning I cycled over to Roti (déjà-vu) to finally go and find sponsors but it took too long for her to correct all the mistakes I had…

Fighting in french Pape’ete Topics of the day: European Mobility Week, 2D-Attitude, sponsors Today we met up with Mizael (and two other people from “2D-Attitude” a local environmental organization) and someone from the city hall who is organizing the program for the European Mobility Week in Pape’ete. Roti also joined us with a few of…

Global Compassion or Emotional Particularism Pape’ete Topics of the day: memory blurred (no I don’t financially support the local… green economy) I most likely spent reading, writing and worrying about the world – what a waste of time… Maybe I wondered why people are so emotionally particular – when you read in the paper that…

Grass Routes Pape’ete Topics of the day: reading, Transition Towns again, Peak Oil, writing, Johann, Gross National Happiness Today we went to the market – I love the market on Sundays – it’s so full of life (and local goodness) and you always meet someone you know (we met Rudolph who seemed a lot more…

Transition towns…. Islands Pape’ete Topics of the day: Transition towns, islands and times, bikes, WILPF, India I slept over at Roti’s house so I don’t really know what Raphael did today (I think he cleaned the flat and wrote an abstract of his thesis in English (for Terii Vallaux)). I distracted Roti, talked to her…