Sailing for Sustainability

Jumping from a big boat into the Baltic sea made us enjoy what we could lose if we continue polluting our seas – an amazing moment of group joy! Who could put a price on this Natural Capital?!

All of this before rising once again the sail on the following day to screen a movie about how Cuba survived the peak oil due to the embargo: The Power of Community – How Cuba Survived Peak Oil.

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From our bell and bike observatories, we lazily watch them working hard on a huge time table. Our clever sailors write their wishes and the topics they can share about – like messages in bottles thrown in the great sea of knowledge – and they try to organize workshops and presentations. But as pirate parrots we know how the sea can appeal us so after this hard job done, we finally leave Pavilosta harbour and let our sails embrace the nice morning wind… Today we can be proud of our sailors: no one gets sea-sick!

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Many questions and a lot more answers: the first week of being a social laboratory on sustainability was full of discussions, actions and growing group dynamics within our small diverse community onboard the ship. Coming from different backgrounds we explored various perspectives on the topic of alternative economy which opened up new possibilities, new ideas and new hope. This experiences inspired us to dive deeper into the alternatives that exist alread... mehr »

We won’t judge the UN summit, as we have not been there, the media seems to reflect that it was rather vague commitments and blabla…  Here, you can find some impressions of the peoples summit. At the meanwhile, we continued our open space, here some quotes:

“Happiness cannot be universalised. Especially, it shouldn’... mehr »

We have been jumping and humping around, playing different games this morning to get prepared for the press and the thousand of cameras welcoming us in Lithuania. After two hours of games and improvisation, we built some pictures… and hey: we made it into the national news. Then, two hours later, we saw ourselves on the screen how we jumped into the Dané, the river that crosses the town.

Apparently, this is forbidden. The harbour master came running to us after it was on th... mehr »

Today, we started the cruise to the wonderful village named "Hel", after our first performance about the Rio+20 in the harbour in Gdansk. What are our first steps and how is the atmosphere on board?

Pouuf, what a first day! Can you imagine a group of people that never met before, getting together and improvising a theatre play about the Rio+20 on board of a traditional sailing ship within two hours? Well, we did.

After shortly deciding that we will take the time to know each other in the evening, we started producing our first play. Quite cliché, to admit, but still somehow true: politicians of the UN are often enough attached to structural strings, playing with the resources of the world we are living in. In the latest ... mehr »