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NUTEC – cradle 2 cradle fair

I’ve just come home from attending “Nutec” today – an international congress and exhibition on “Nutec: Nutrients – Upcycling – Triple-Top-Line-Eco-effectiveness-Community” that took place right here in Frankfurt am Main, Germany during the last three days.

Nutec is all about …

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the difference & BarCampAfrica

Back in 1998 when a group of two friends and I applied for venture capital for a smart mobile phone-related web project*, we were told that VCs in the US would normally finance 100 projects and call it a …

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Gcompris

I’ve played with Edubuntu on the office laptop today and came across this nice suite for kids & boys like me who like to play smart games:

If you have access to kids ;-), think they should learn something about …

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on the CEFR & YouTube generation

What you see here is the first page of a brand new textbook for 12-year-old German kids who want to learn Spanish (as a foreign language).
It starts with a listening comprehension unit and provides relatively short exercises throughout the …

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Make Some Green…

The goal of the competition is to promote upcycling by encouraging the use of wasted materials to generate innovative designs and redefine the standards of environmental sustainability by fostering balance between conservation and development.
Despite this rather unfortunate phrasing ;-), …

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