week 156

 

Mon: How to ameliorate the lost of memory as we age? Try to match names to room items.

Tue: Escaping the rat race to your private island in Panama looks not worth the effort because you are not far enough from civilization.

Wed: Can the digital economy help to raise the well being of africans? Perhaps in the cities.

Thu: The nivan people of Mota Lava in Vanuatu choose a quiet self-sufficient life when all gather together to fish with bow and arrow on the shallow waters surrounding their island, rather than to sell to the “white man” fishing net trap.

Fri: Watching the ouaksah people of lake Sentarum in western Borneo, collecting honey only on new moon nights from Apis dorsata wild beehives hanging on tree branches 50 m. above the inundated forest ground is breathtaking.

 

week 155

 

Mon: Zoonotic diseases are here to stay, as long as, live animal markets are opened and people continues encroaching wild habitats.

Tue: Selling the house to roam New Zealand’s countryside on a repurposed school-bus looks more enticing than the real experience seems to be.

Wed: Watching freshly cut bamboo bundles swimming down the Meghna river current guided by a precariously balanced logger fascinates foreign eyes in Bangladesh.

Thu: Villarica and its mapuche inhabitants are severely exposed to earthquakes and volcano eruptions yet, the location exudes natural beauty.

Fri: The vezos people of the west coast of Madagascar along the Menabe Antimena protected area continue their ancestral practice of sailing by the wind to reach plentiful schools of fish.

 

week 154

 

Mon: The protection against phone hacking looks pretty simple: abstain from any app!

Tue: Living alone as a female western artist at the edge of the Moroccan Sahara desert (Tissardmine hamlet, close to Erfoud village) requires lots of stamina.

Wed: Bamboo collection and transport along the Meghna river from Juri all the way to Boidder Bazar represent a Bangladesh on the verge of disappearance.

Thu: Paving the “carretera austral”, from Puerto Montt to Villa O’Higgins, maybe a death threat to the chilean Patagonia.

Fri: Ile des Pins, a last enclave of Kanak culture in colonized Nouvelle Caledonie, has all the allure of the south seas.

week 153

 

Mon: Tiny (23 squared meters) and mobile (on wheels) houses are a feasible and sustainable approach to housing for the semi-nomad hipster.

Tue: Leaving the Massey Univ. PhD title behind, the prospect of getting lost for good in the great barrier island, off the east coast of new Zealand north island, is certainly a hard but appealing life turn.

Wed: The train from Mandalay to Pyin Oo Lwin built by the british colonizers to extract raw materials has finally begun to benefit the rural local people allowing them easy access to the big city.

Thu: Pernambuco cuisine, overflowing with sugar, is a veritable testament to the slave hard labor imported from Angola to cultivate sugar cane on the annexed lands taken from the native brazilians for the benefit of the portuguese crown.

Fri: Fishing the traditional way (plain sailing, no engine) in the waters around Bazaruto archipelago by the natives is an exercise in primal survival life style.