In this third episode, we discuss the potential of textile recycling as part of a circular economy. We’re lucky to get to speak to Hilde van Duijn from EigenDraads, a Rotterdam based initiative that wants to take our non-reusable clothes and transform them into something new.
Read MoreI love talking to old people. Chat someone up and within two minutes you’re going to learn something you would have never otherwise found out. That’s how I felt when I spent an afternoon at a retirement home in Budapest, reflecting upon Hungary’s 1956 revolution with a poet.
Read MoreIn this second episode, we travel to a real live urban arena in Rotterdam and meet Derk Loorbach director of DRIFT - The Dutch Research Institute For Transitions - and Professor of Socio-economic Transitions at the Faculty of Social Science, both at Erasmus University Rotterdam.
Read MoreUrban Arena is a podcast about just and sustainable cities. In this first episode, we discuss sustainability and justice in food and transport. To help us do so, we are speaking (and cycling around Budapest) with UrbanA fellow Orsolya Lazányi. She is a co-founder of Cargonomia, a Budapest-based community space for locally-produced food and cargo bike rentals. Listen in as we talk about Orsolya's work, her views on the degrowth movement, and the cultural intricacies of building an organization like Cargonomia in Hungary.
Read MoreOn All Saints Day, I decide to spend a day in Budapest's famous Kerepesi Cemetery. The result? Good music, candle-lit tombstones, and a boy with paranormal visions.
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