Politicians introduced carbon offsetting to the world as a skeleton key that unlocks the solution to climate change. You could hear about it on the radio, read it in newspapers and listen to people talk about it on conferences. PR designed this to reassure us that we car remedy the…

How to ruin a tropical island in just 10 years Cape Verde is a group of small islands in the tropics about 350 miles west of Africa. A land that some of you may never hear. Nonetheless, Cape Verde has been home to a native population of Portuguese origin for…

Does travel make you happy, or just cause you more stress? You probably remember your first-ever holiday, most likely in your childhood. The soothing calmness of pure existence, having no particular objectives just enjoying whatever, wherever. Every time I think of taking a holiday, and I do think of it…

I come from an average Hungarian family from the ’70s. Life was simple. Shops had one type of milk, a kind of bread, pretty much one of everything. There were no mobile phones, no computers, no Netflix. Friends and their families gathered on the weekends, cars full of people headed…