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Environmental risks

OFFSHORE WIND POWER IN THE SEA OF L'EMPORDÀ

By Josep Lloret Photo Sonia Estévez

Faced with the threat of climate change, we urgently need to deploy renewable energy sources and reduce consumption. Among the different renewable energy sources is offshore wind power, which has experienced a boom in the North and Baltic Seas. However, we cannot directly import the northern sea models to the Mediterranean as it has a thinner and more heterogeneous ...

Inner freedom

IN TIMES OF CONFUSION

By Alexis Racionero Ragué Photo Sonia Estévez

We live in an era of confusion and discord. Just when the pandemic seemed to be letting up, the monster of war awakened. War is the Moloch that the poet Allen Ginsberg said destroyed the best minds of his generation, such as the people who believed in utopia and were the first to populate the Empordà as if it were a new Arcadia where the songs of freedom were reborn.


Atles lingüístic de l'Empordà

TRACEM UN MAPA AMB ALGUNES DE LES PARAULES QUE DEFINEIXEN MÉS LA VIDA I EL TARANNÀ EMPORDANESOS

By Helena Borrell Photo Bruna Valls

En l'era de la intel·ligència artificial, demanem al ChatGPT que ens parli com un autèntic empordanès. La màquina ens adverteix que aquest parlar és una llengua no estàndard i que, per tant, pot tenir moltes variants. El resultat és, igualment, decebedor. El text que ens proposa el bot conversacional es desplega en un català estàndard perfecte, sense marques dialectals de la terra que...

Another world is unavoidable

THE CURRENT GENERATION HAS TO MAKE A DECISION

By Ignasi Rifé Photo Il·lustració Daniel Soms

“Every single journal should have a shrieking headline every day saying we are heading to total catastrophe. In a couple of generations organized human society may not survive. That has to be drilled into people’s heads constantly. The current generation has to make a decision (…), and it has to be done quickly, there’s not a lot of time”, said linguist, philosopher and activist Noa...

For a non-formal education up until 7 years old

NEW EDUCATIONAL PROPOSALS

By Sònia Kliass Photo Joguines Grapat

Traditionally we’ve been used to send our 0-6 year-old kids to a school-based environment: the youngest ones go to ‘nursery school’ and at around 3yrs they start at the ‘big kids school’. Even when we speak about alternative education systems, ‘forest school’, ‘free school’, ‘Steiner school’… we still use the word ‘school’. It’s perhaps a lesser known fact that i...