Category Archives: Environment, society, politics and economics
Beauty in the wrong place is ugliness: conversation with a (nice) psychogardener
Walking back from the shops this afternoon, down Németvölgyi út in Budapest, I saw a lady pulling up all the grasses, wild carrot, plantain, wood sorrel and other “weeds” lining the edge of the pavement. Since I like lots of … Continue reading
Bomb the Chinese to save the elephant
Every day on Twitter I see gruesome facts and photographs about the murder of elephants. A headline in Huffington Post refers to an unread article that elephants, highly intelligent and sensitive and emotional animals, will be extinct by 2020. The … Continue reading
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Tagged Africa, behavioural economics, China, elephants, horn, ivory, poaching, rhinos, wildlife
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Old ladies and German football
Old ladies and German football can teach the World Bank a bit about economics. From time to time we hear from the World Bank and other economists that the way to protect nature is to put a price on it. … Continue reading
Save the planet: laugh at a Porsche.
Chris Rose’s book “What Makes People Tick” describes the worlds and values of three kinds of people: Settlers, Prospectors and Pioneers. Settlers are conservative people who don’t like change and want security; prospectors are get up and go achievers who … Continue reading
Prospector sports
Having read Chris Rose’s “What Makes People Tick” I now understand better something I found at Normafa, one of the thickly wooded, hilly spots overlooking Budapest. A big sign has gone up advertising the Mountain Sports Centre. The sign lists … Continue reading
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Tagged black woodpecker, Normafa, prospectors, segway
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