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A year with rough challenges and with fascinating encounters. 

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

"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

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

Trying to understand what is going on.

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

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.

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

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

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

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

"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

A story of mismanagement, corruption, populism and political instability.

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.

“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

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

Petrels "walk on water"