"The cunning of uncertainty suspends routine. (…) It prepares one for surprises that come with increasing order of complexity in whi...

"If the past has any significance for the present, here is a strong reminder that technology alone is never sufficient to garantee the ...

"Creativity, while it needs certain conditions to flourish, refuses to become subject to prediction. The creative process moves from d...

  "Turning points in a life that seemed set on a predictable path suddendly emerge. (...) a reality check sets in. Once past certaintie...

Call it what you will - futures, utopias, dreams - but remeber they " are imperfect, they are imaginative, they are joyful and wild, th...

As earthling, living in Portugal, I can´t imagine what Ukraine beings are going through in these hours, or what it must feel for Russian bei...

"(...) I can think of no better form of personal involvement than that of gardening. A person who is growing a garden (...) organically...

"A renewable power system is not dependent on foreign energy imports nor vulnerable to fuel price manipulations – which are the main wo...

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"The combination between biometric data and mass surveillance results in an unlawful practice that unfairly treats everyone like a susp...

  "Emerging trends in adaptation place an emphasis on the need for more transformational changes, which has a distinct logic that diffe...

"Mycorrhizal networks (also known as common mycorrhizal networks or CMN) are underground hyphal networks created by mycorrhizal fungi t...

"[A]ll this was an ongoing labor of love. The sustainability of nature (...) never just falls into place; it must be brought out throug...

"I comb through the mess of existing worlds-in-the-making, looking for treasures - each distinctive and unlikely to be found again....

After being hacked and down for 3 days, the newspaper " Expresso volta a ser feito e desenhado à mão. Como no primeiro dia. " by E...

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  «Assemblages are open-ended gatherings. They allow us to ask about communal effects without assuming them. They show us potential historie...

"Humans, pines, and fungi make living arrangements simultaneously for themselves and for others: multispecies worlds."  Anna Lowen...

"Patterns of unintentional coordination develop in assemblages. To notice such patterns means watching the interplay of temporal rhythm...

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"Don't let the beauty of life escape you." Let Nature be " t he temple that is. Marvel at the fact that any of this exist...

Phenology : "the study of periodic events in biological life cycles and how these are influenced by seasonal and interannual variations...

“Failure is instrumental in success. We need to fail to learn. It’s only through exploring and figuring out the territory, that the fog sta...

"Make what you can of what you have been given. Live what can be lived. That's what excellence is." Ryan Holiday (2019) Stilln...

"Think as carefully about what information you feed your mind as you do about the food you feed your body." Rutger Bregman (2021)....

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"The less energy we waste regretting the past and worrying about the future, the more energy we will have for what's in front of us...

  "We use brut force reactions to have elements to bond or break apart. Life uses a small subset of the Periodic Table - the safe eleme...

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  « Data protection in EU: Comparative Study of National Reports » "a document aimed to produce a panoramic vision of the legal and eth...

"The Natural World definition of success is not keeping offspring alive in a generation. Success is keeping offspring alive for 10 000 ...

"Fighting to save our life supporting systems isn't radical at all. Believing that civilization as we know it can survive a 2.7 deg...

"Will the Anthropocene then name a geological epoch when no humans will be around to think it?" T. J. Demos (2016). Chapter VII - ...

"If life as we know it is at stake (...) the best approach is to ecologize the economy instead of economizing the environment." We...

"Trees have many values – and their highest value is not as firewood! Trees provide many tangible benefits in terms of shelter, shade, ...