COMMUNITY LED, COMMUNITY DRIVEN
People waste an outrageous amount of food. Between farmers, manufacturers, grocery stores and consumers, more than 1.3 billion tonnes of consumable food were tossed away last year. That’s enough to build a mountain 3 kilometres wide and 2500 meters high.
Continue reading “Tech Startups in the Fight Against Food Waste”
It’s official: with so many great artists in Barcelona, the artwork can no longer be contained within museums, and has started to flow throughout the streets. Street artists have created hundreds of masterpieces that are waiting to be discovered around every corner of the city.
On the neighbourhood block, the formal rules of art can be put aside, and each artist can express their creativity as boldly and unabashedly as they desire. While the museum or gallery may be reserved for the elite, this hasn’t stopped the disenfranchised and countercultural people of Barcelona from painting this city in their unique style. The streets have become a canvas for the people of Barcelona, freely expressing their dissatisfactions, their points of pride, or anything else which may come to mind.
Every neighbourhood in Barcelona is blessed with its own market. Locals have the convenience of grabbing fresh and organic products anytime they want all the while appreciating the beauty of their very own market. It’s also important to notice how, unlike supermarkets, which tend to sell plastic-wrapped products, public markets are as much sustainable as they are enjoyable.
Continue reading “Forget the Mall: Let’s Go to the Public Market”
Sustainability is an increasingly important topic nowadays. People want to do good for the planet and be conscious of their daily habits. We also need to educate people in the house and streets like food waste, recycling products and packaging, energy and water. People want to make the planet more beautiful and livable every single day. It’s all about the people, planet and profit. We should all be aware that it’s important to look after the world and not to let it become an ugly place to live and share amongst the population. So it’s increasingly important to create and make things better for the planet plus be conscious of our daily habits.
We all know the fairy tales from when we were little. From little red riding hood until the little mermaid. All those stories we can tell from detail. That is the power of storytelling. The story is graved into your mind.
Storytelling is an important and fun way of communication. Nowadays it has been used more and more in companies to communicate their story in a way that people are astonished by what they hear. Like I said the best thing about storytelling is that you will never forget one detail about the story you’ve heard.
Have you ever turned on the news on your TV and realized everything you are hearing is negative? The world is filled with a lot of negativity and depressing events that can lead people to lose faith in humanity. Luckily, our faith in humanity often becomes restored by random acts of kindness. Continue reading “Pay It Forward: The Social Coin”
Who doesn’t love to travel? It’s 2016, and everyone seems to have caught the travel bug. Even a new lifestyle is emerging to accommodate this widespread desire to see the world: Digital Nomadery. I’m sure you’ve all heard of at least one person living this lifestyle. Jumping from city to city, working from their laptop, all while sight-seeing and partying with people from all over the world.
Welcome to the new working dream. The classic 9 to 5 working lifestyle is becoming “passé”, and if you want to keep up with times, you better start thinking differently.
Continue reading “Digital Nomadery: The 21st Century Way of Work”
Many of us are guilty of a disastrous habit: excessive media intake. We all want to stay updated with what is the latest news in our city and in the world – but are you conscious of how the media is affecting your perceptions of the world?
Consider social media, in most developed countries, it’s often a grand hub for people to share their life tailored to the way they want other people to perceive them! Think about that for a moment. Don’t you, as well, manage what you are putting online in order to create an image that you are pleased with or to support the ideals you believe in? Admittedly, I do. Subconsciously or consciously, we all do it.
Instagram is one of the most popular social media websites and apps, and if you haven’t at least heard of it by now, I have to assume that you’ve been living under a rock. As of June 2016, there are a reported 500 million active monthly users of the site, ranking it the 8th largest social network in the world.
Instagram is an outlet for countless different types of accounts, some of which include fashion, comedy, travel, company promotion, and personal lives. At the high risk of being labeled as a basic girl in her 20s, my favorite type of Instagram account to follow would have to be the foodies. Continue reading “Best Barcelona Foodie Instagrams”
There’s hundreds of technological and infrastructural innovations happening all over the globe – the soon-to-be-built $1 billion residentless city, the possibility of floating airports, and underwater villas to name just a few – but not many cities see so much rejuvenation condensed in such a short time as Barcelona.
It’s interesting to see how fast the city takes on new innovations, rejuvenation, or outright creation projects when La Sagrada Familia is still under construction after 131 years; but Barcelona is such a vibrant and lively city, it’s impossible for it to stay static. Below are just a few of the latest innovative projects happening around the city. Continue reading “Barcelona’s Rejuvenation”
