June 2018
This is a collapsible, reusable, and portable drinking straw, one that you can bring with you, and that will replace all plastic straws (Final Straw n.d.a and n.d.b). As the company names implies, it will be the last straw you ever need and use. The idea is commendable, to say the...
I have been involved in civil society projects funded by the EEA and Norway Grants since the beginning, that is, so far a total of eight projects located in Bulgaria, Latvia, Romania, and Slovenia (EEA and Norway Grants n.d.a). While being very differing projects in their focus, they...
I posted a video on Facebook about the ethnic group Jarawa. This is a small (2-300 persons) indigenous people that live on Andaman Islands in the Indian Ocean, southwest of Burma (Jarawas (Andaman Islands) n.d). This people are of interest to me,...
Norway's Sovereign Wealth Fund hit the 1 trillion USD mark for the first time in September 2017. I have only a vague idea of the number of zeros in that figure. A figure with fewer zeros is 190,000 USD, which is the sum for each and...
I always find it erie and strange to travel in countries in the south and come across vestiges of Western culture, almost invariably better known as Western imperialism. Be it slave castles in Western Africa, or churches and other...
