2021 Takeaways

What is going on?

Broken supply chains, no chips, bullish coal markets, shipping and flying, economy is doing well, bullish stock markets…
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Bulls
Senegal Blog 5

Gorée Island

"If slavery is not wrong, nothing is wrong" Abraham Lincoln
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Goree
Senegal Blog 4

The world largest mangrove reforestation program

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Blue Carbon
Senegal Blog 3

Slaves

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Talibe
Senegal Blog 2

Senegal Climate Change

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Climate Change
A photo exhibition

Caminos

"La vida se hace caminando sin mapa y no hay forma de volver atràs" Isabel Allende
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Caminos
Senegal Blog 1

Arriving in Senegal

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St. Louis
Blog Article

An Essay in Times of the Virus

London 1606, Leadership, the Virus, Winners, Home - Office, a Chance for our Planet?
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Pune
Büezer

Ueber Büezer und Beizen

Ein Steilpass aus der heutigen NZZaS
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Amazonas
2022

The CO2 questions

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Monte Rosa

Blog

 

 

 

 

"A blog is a great way to figure out what you want to do with yourself because writing regularly is a path to self-discovery."  Penepole Trunk

Veritas numquam perit

Books

 

 

 

 

"A room without books is like a body without a soul" Cicero

Books

Glossary

 

 

 

 

Definitions. Ideas. Thoughts. A way of looking at things.

Glossary

Images

 

 

 

 

"Photography is the story I fail to put into words" Destin Sparks

Images

Podcasts

 

 

 

 

Digital audios. Experiments. Voices. 

Podcasts
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Anton Affentranger

Anton Affentranger

I confess to be very privileged. In my life I have profited from multicultural settings: a life full of contrasts and cultures. My mother left me the colour of the hot Spanish temperament and my father the stubbornness and tenacity of a Swiss German cheesemaker. I was lucky to be able to fill my backpack with a broad-based humanistic education. As a child and adolescent, I witnessed the economic and social contrasts in Latin America. As a banker I was “part of the game” in the bust-and-boom times of the last two decades of the 20th century: in New York, Hong Kong, Zürich, and Geneva. Then, during the first two decades of this century I switched the side of the negotiating table becoming an industrialist and entrepreneur driving the creation and development of a construction services group and various technology ventures.

Today I’m driven by one question only: how to put a break to “climate change” before it is too late?   

Recent Book

Wahrheit kann schweres Gewicht sein. Ich weiss. Das ist jedoch nicht die Wahrheit, die ich meine. Sondern ein Rückblick auf Gewesenes, der auch ein Schmunzeln erlaubt.

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Marathon

Let's be optimistic

A year with rough challenges and with fascinating encounters. 

Let's be optimistic
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Letter

THE LETTER

A film. A first-class director. A call to action. A must see.

THE LETTER

Eugene - Oregon

"Freedom is meaningless if people cannot put food in their stomachs, if they can have no shelter, if illiteracy and disease continue to dog them."

Nelson Mandela

Eugene - Oregon
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Antarctica

The Thwaites Glacier

 

 

 

 

Future generations are not going to ask us what political party were you in. They are going to ask what did you do about it, when you knew the glaciers were melting.

The Thwaites Glacier
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Johann Wüest

Waste to Value

 

 

 

 

“The earth is a fine place and worth fighting for” Ernest Hemingway

Waste to Value

The CO2 question

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

“The world will not be destroyed by those who do evil, but by those who watch them without doing anything.” — Albert Einstein

The CO2 question

What is going on?

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Trying to understand what is going on.

What is going on?

The Gorner-Glacier

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Most of them – if not all of them – have received the irrevocable death penalty. From us humans.

The Gorner-Glacier
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Camino volando

Caminos

 

 

 

 

"La vida se hace caminando sin mapa y no hay forma de volver atras" Isabelle Allende

Caminos
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Goree

Gorée Island

 

 

 

 

"If slavery is not wrong, nothing is wrong" Abraham Lincoln 

Gorée Island

The world largest mangrove reforestation program

 

 

 

 

 

If the balance of these ecosystems is destroyed, not only will they not capture carbon anymore, but they will also release the carbon that has already been captured over time.

The world largest mangrove reforestation program

Slaves

 

 

 

 

I never imagined that in today’s globalized and interconnected world child slavery would exist

Slaves

Senegal: Climate Change

 

 

 

"When the sea was raging, I used to take refuge in the street with my children, in the middle of the night, waiting for it to calm down,” says Collé. “Until the day the sea was too strong."

Senegal: Climate Change
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Data

The chart of the day

 

 

 

 

No need to comment on the data.

The chart of the day
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Photo of the Year 2021 Ralph Pace

Nothing to add

 

 

 

 

2021 Photo of the year, 1st price in the category Environment, Ralph Pace photographer

Nothing to add
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Büezer

Büezer

 

Über «Büezer» und «Beizen». Über «reservierte Sitzplätze» im Seefeld. Über Opportunismus – von links und rechts und über sogenannte politische «Geniestreiche».

Büezer
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Iceberg

The Big Meltdown

 

 

What is it going to take?

The Big Meltdown
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Mountain

Not possible to negotiate with our planet

Die verlorenen Massen brauchen Antworten. Hier sind wir alle gefordert, nicht nur Hr. Biden. Unser Planet braucht uns nicht. Wir brauchen unseren Planeten.

Not possible to negotiate with our planet
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Hello 2021

All the best to you all in 2021!

"When you come out of the storm, you won’t be the same person who walked in. That’s what this storm’s all about."

Haruki Murakami

 

All the best to you all in 2021!
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Tourist

Reisen in Zeiten des Virus

Wenn wir nicht mehr oder nur eingeschränkt reisen können, bleibt wenigstens Zeit, über die Hintergründe des Reisens und des Reiseverhaltens zu reden. Der Reisejournalist Kurt Schaad hat sich dazu mit dem Psychoanalytiker und Schriftsteller Jürg Acklin unterhalten.

Reisen in Zeiten des Virus
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Diego Maradona

Diego: Simply the best

“I’m Maradona, who makes goals, who makes mistakes. I can take it all, I have shoulders big enough to fight with everybody”. Diego Maradona

Diego: Simply the best
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Melting

Melting

“In the Andes and the Alps, I have seen melting glaciers. At both of the Earth’s Poles, I have seen open sea where ice once dominated the horizon” Ban Ki-moon

Melting
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Camino del mar

Caminos - a photo exhibition

About the Pacific Ocean. The Humboldt Stream. The Andes. Nature and humans at work.

Caminos - a photo exhibition
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Camino de los pinguinos

Caminos - a photo exhibition

“It's practically impossible to look at a penguin and feel angry”  

Joe Moore

Caminos - a photo exhibition
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Antarctica

Why?

It all started with my book “Baustellen”.

Why?
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Pune

An Essay in Times of the Virus

London 1606, Leadership, the Virus, Winners, Home - Office, a Chance for our Planet?

An Essay in Times of the Virus