It’s easy to be minimalist next to a loaded shopping mall — Two weeks ago, a rat broke into our storage room. It must have been there for a couple of days because later on, I found its feces everywhere. I called the local vet for instructions, and she told me to discard everything that had biting marks on it, or couldn’t…

Plants are struggling to survive, and we’ll follow suit — During the last year, my region (southwestern Slovenia) received only about 30–40% of annual mean precipitation. The lack of rain has been especially pronounced in the last two or three months. Potato crops are failing, fruit trees are dropping their fruits prematurely, and some of them are going yellow, like…

A parable on insanity of our times — Imagine you’re a sailor out in the open seas. You have been receiving messages about the coming storm for days. The scientists predict, they said, it is going to be hell out there. But to you, the weather has never been better. The sun was shining; the wind blew in…

Manifesto, a public draft — Many of us realize that our rampant consumption and the hidden forces of capitalism push our biosphere beyond its limits. We are the driving agent of an extinction level event, to which we’ll be no exception. Our current youth, children, and yet-to-be-born will have to face insufferable and unimaginable conditions…

Watching Apollo 10 1⁄2: A Space Age Childhood — The 1960s must have been some time! As a late 80’s-early-90’s kid, I always a bit envied those who got to live their best years through one of the most golden ages of humanity ever. I remember watching The Wonder Years as a kid (and experiencing my first celebrity crush…

Measuring the city’s hottest days and why we should plant more trees. — About ten days ago, our city experienced the first heatwave of this summer. At its peak, we’ve got 30 to 38°C. I took that opportunity to have a few strolls through my town with an infrared camera, Voltcraft WB-300, to have a look at what the surface temperatures might be…

Crop failures are becoming a reality. A report from my garden. — I am by no means a farmer, not even a professional gardener, merely someone who does some gardening on the side to provide fresh produce for myself and my close ones. Yet, I can see how the difficulty of these pursuits changed with time. The first time I planted a…

The dark matter of climate change — Gosh, I don’t even know where to start this. It is just so baffling. Yesterday a Croatian TV network aired the news that sardines are dying in the Adriatic sea because the water is reaching 30°C (86°F for my American friends). Temperatures like this are without precedence in this region…

How we miscalculated the climate change — When I was a member of a debate club at the Faculty of Law (despite being an architecture student), we often had workshops on proper and effective argumentation. How to persuade the opponent and, more importantly, the audience and the judges. One of the most challenging skills to master was…