Can simple compost help us cool cities down? This Budapest initiatives demonstrates, how
What’s the point of green spaces in cities? In Budapest, Mark Richards, compost master in the Aurora Climate Garden, has a strong opinion on this: those spaces should be community-centred, focused on not what looks good, but on what actually helps the environment, and play the long game. For his project, it all started with […]
The struggle of a town Pilismarót and its locals, against a multinational company
The story of Pilismarót shows how a united community can stand up to a multinational company and win. In 2019, the village’s mayor secretly approved a gravel mine project just 500 meters from homes, later designating the area a “priority development zone” during the COVID-19 pandemic. Outraged residents forced his resignation. They organised a strong […]
Fight for Housing Between Climate Change and Inequality
In Recsk, a small village in northern Hungary, a mudslide occurred in mid-June 2023, when soil extracted from the local mine was washed down onto houses during a heavy thunderstorm. For a long time, it was believed that the victims would receive 500 million forints in government aid, based on a government decree signed by […]
This Hungarian artist challenger the fake Instagram world
With her hobby, Renya Biacsics has created a true pop art culture: on her Instagram, we can see funny, witty everyday scenes drawn in her signature style, most of which are based on real events. Her satirical illustrations appear online, on the walls of cafés and bars, or even on clothing — always with refreshing […]
Data is not free for the environment: technology and climate change
In arid and climate-stressed Spain, one of the groups calling for a moratorium on new data centres calls itself Tu Nube Seca Mi Río – Spanish for “your cloud is drying my river”. In recent years, Spain has become a leading destination for tech giants to set up their data centres in Europe. Madrid even […]
Inside the home of a philosopher and toy robot collector
Berényi Csaba is a philosopher and DJ. His decades-long passion is collecting toy robots and he has a huge collection in his apartment. In the past, he hunted exclusively at second-hand markets, but nowadays he also searches online for the pieces he wants. For this video, he welcomed journalists into his home to showcase his […]
No Grace for Grape: an epidemic that’s wiping out Hungarian vineyards
The flavescence dorée phytoplasma is one of the most dangerous pathogens of the grapevine, reducing yields by 20–50%, and the number of infected plants increases tenfold each year. This year, the number of infected areas has increased explosively, and entire plantations have perished irreversibly. The vineyard of Zoltán Simon has also been affected by the […]
Partner’s death transformed the life of this artist and father
Tamás Kaszás is an internationally known contemporary intermedia artist. He teaches at the University of Fine Arts and regularly exhibits abroad and in Hungary. His partner, also a visual artist, died 4 years ago, and since then he has had to take care of three boys alone. How does the family process the loss of […]
In Hungary, the government is doing its best to censor LGBTQi+ books
What happens when a book becomes dangerous to decision makers? In Hungary, in 2025, there’s no need to imagine, it’s the reality. This is the result of Hungary’s 2021 Child Protection Act, which prohibits the presentation of homosexual content to minors in the media, including television, films, advertisements and literature. As a result, buying a […]
The technology of sustainable living: living in a yurt
Balázs Tőgyi and his family moved from the hustle and bustle of city life to a yurt without utilities, on a vineyard hill in the Balaton Uplands in Hungary eight years ago. Their life is a conscious experiment in how to live in harmony with nature – not by rejecting technology, but by using it […]
