Category: climate change
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Nahrung, neu gebaut
(Scroll down for the English text.) Gestern war ich im Naturhistorischen Museum Wien, in der Ausstellung „Cockaigne. Schlaraffenland der Zukunft?“ von Gregor Sailer. Ein Thema, das auf dem Papier ungefähr so aufregend klingt wie ein Bericht über Agrarpolitik: die Zukunft der Nahrungsmittelproduktion. Doch ich kenne Sailers Werke, und so war mir von Anfang an klar,…
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Finally exposed to paintings again
Going to an art museum may not usually seem that exciting, but when I rode my bike to the Belvedere21 yesterday, for the first time in months, since Covid-19 Lockdown measures shut down all of Vienna´s museums, I felt pretty exhilarated. The modern art venue of the venerable Belvedere Museum offered special thematic tours on…
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A hymn to the earth in Baden
For the second year now, the city of Baden near Vienna is hosting the photo festival La Gacilly-Baden, and all over downtown you can feast your eyes on outstanding photo-art. Huge photographs by acclaimed photographers from around the world grace building walls, line walking paths and frame baroque palaces. If the charms of Baden alone…
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Fridays for Future
Time for a pro-nature conservation rant (after all, my VienNature Culturegram has the word “nature” in it, and I´ve been neglecting that part a bit). “Species have always gone extinct”. “The earth´s climate has changed many times before”. This and other unscientific global warming and climate change myths are commonly spouted by the uninformed and…
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