Not many people can say that they developed and built a power plant in their backyard. Franz Zotlöterer can. The Austrian engineer is experimenting with innovative forms of generating power that benefit humans and the environment.
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Street art is usually found in big cities and not necessarily in communities with a population of just a thousand inhabitants. But in the rural town of Würmla in Lower Austria, urban-style art has recently been displayed on silos, barns and cider cellars. The artworks are also intended to serve […]
“No more blah-blah – no more CFA franc! History is on the move and nobody will stop it” – this is how the chorus of 7 minutes contre le CFA begins, a song by ten musicians from seven countries, which was released at the end of June 2018. ‘Why, of […]
A hundred years ago, the inventor of Esperanto, Ludwik Zamenhof, died. The constructed language itself celebrates its 130th birthday this year. In Austria and elsewhere there are still “Esperantists” who learn and speak the language. I visited a study group in Vienna. A bookshop in the second district of Vienna. […]
Bioeconomy deals with the question of how the economy can be shaped in a holistic, environmentally conscious manner. A common problem: far too often recycable waste is not being used further. Bioeconomy entrepreneurs like Gunter Pauli are trying to close these broken cycles.
In their heyday in the middle of the 19th century, “Burschenschaft” fraternities in German speaking countries made rather progressive demands on the ruling class: such as democracy or freedom of the press. Jews were also members of these then vanguard students’ associations. But after 1848 anti-Semitism suddenly spread – and […]