Category: Words

Local currencies

Photo of local currency chiemgauerLocal currencies are currencies that circulate mostly locally and at a community level. They work as complementary to an official, legal currency. They are usually accepted by local traders of all kinds, and they give local residents an incentive to shop locally.

As a result, local currencies help a particular community or region strengthen and decarbonize its local economy. They help build community spirit while reducing people’s carbon footprint and improve local resilience.

First nations

Called Tribal Peoples, First Peoples, Native Peoples, and Indigenous Peoples, these original inhabitants call themselves by many names in their 4,000 + unique languages and constitute about 6.2 percent of the world’s population.

A board with many indigenous tribe names of the world

Do artists have to be human? Interspecies art

German artist duo Hörner/Antlfinger live and work together with two African Grey Parrots, Clara and Karl.

CMUK is one example of an interspecies art collective, proposing an alternative to the model of the sole-creating genius human. The name CMUK is an acronym of its members Clara, Mathias, Ute, and Karl. Ute Hörner and Mathias Antlfinger[3] view Clara and Karl not as their pets, but as equal partners.

pigeon on a table engaged in creating art

What are human rights?

roma children smiling into camera

Human rights are a set of principles concerned with equality and fairness.

Human rights are a set of principles concerned with equality and fairness. They recognise our freedom to make choices about our lives and to develop our potential as human beings. They are about living a life free from fear, harassment or discrimination.

 

End speciesism

Speciesism, in applied ethics and the philosophy of animal rights, the practice of treating members of one species as morally more important than members of other species; also, the belief that this practice is justified.

Image depicting lifestyle ruled by Ego and Eco