Elena M's Blog – June 2012 Archive (7)

For me, a main insight is the scientific standard which differs enormously from the news media reality. We have a very famous newspaper in germany which is a very good example for the gap between science and media reality. The "Bild" Newspaper has little text blocks and many pictures, and its headlines are always instigative, polemic and in many cases worse than the facts in reality are. Here is an example, an old Bild headline about poverty in Africa, accompanied by effective…

I chose the case study of sacred groves in India. Sacred groves are zones in the wood or in the field with holy trees that are dedicated to a deity. A sacred grove could look like this:



The areas of sacred groves are getting smaller and smaller caused through farming activities or urbanisation. In this special case an endangerment of an area of sacred groves…

My imagionation of the world water day is, that all the people in the world colour themselves with water-based non-toxic colours that have been specially developed by chemical laboratories and have the function of eliminating germs in the water. On world water day, all the people in the world altogether take a bath in their local rivers, lakes or in the ocean and in this way contribute to the global water purification. The Event could look similar to the Indian "K**b Mela" Party of which I…

It is May, 6th 2020. It is my birthday dinner! I prepared a three-course menu and invited some friends to my home. The first course is Basco, an indonesian soup with vegetables and glass noodles, but without meat. Meat consumption has been restricted by the European Union, in the way that every person in a first world country is allowed to consume meat only one time per week. Therefore we will have meat for the second course.

Because I have always loved italian food we are having an…

Also here in Germany it is possible that a crisis happens. This could be a flood caused by heavy rainfalls as we had in the past, or through a nuclear incident caused through an explosion in an atomic power plant. We had a similar accident in 1986 when in the city of Tschernobyl in the Czech Republic an atomic reactor exploded. Tschernobyl is not so far away from Nuremberg, and it was dangerous to play in the sand because nuclear clouds were blown from the czech republic to germany. In the…

Yesterday I took part in an experiment using an alternative currency. The system took place as follows: every team had four players. The team played 30 rounds together. Every round, every team member was able to decide how much money to put into a community account. After every round the community account was multiplied by 2.5 and divided by four, and everyone got the same portion of the total sum. But the more you put into the account before, the more has also been deducted when calculating…

We start our holiday to southern Italy in the year 2020. I am 36 years old. My two children, Katharina, 5, and Jonas, 3, can't wait to see their grandfather who lives in Italy. We pack our car which is an electro mobility car full of luggage, food and drinks for the journey. The food is from our local farmer, and the water is from the local potable water processing plant. We pass the austrian Brenner by paying our fee by the electronic eco-payment system. Because we have an electro mobility…