Interconnected traveling

	1 of August in Luxembourg is quite a thing with an enormous exodus of people leaving the minuscule country for warmer climates. Be them involved in sustainable development or the local Ministry of Sustainability people seem to get fed up with the wonderful climate that a food producer would consider golden (maybe less so this year with the preceding spring drought but rainfall has been plentiful ever since) and just pack up and leave.  Of places to go to once one gets fed up and small reflections on why this building up of stress that compels us to go half way across the globe to find some inner peace, ways to deal with this stress locally (in one's mind or better yet outside of it) and a small feature from a fellow hitchhiker, busker and friend, Diogo who talks about Couchsurfing ( http://couchsurfing.org ), hitchhiking (http://hitchwiki.org ) and with whom I discuss of other travel tools such as wwoofing (http://www.wwoof.org ) and helpX (http://www.helpx.net ) and a traveling cyclist support community (http://www.warmshowers.org ). I will go into a bit of detail with different summer events taking place in Europe (because it doesn't make sense to fly to a different part of the world when there is so much work to be done on the old continent and with the airplane pollution increasing because of the thrill and answer seekers) where one can be a bit more involved than just your regular Martini sipping siesta on some Spanish beach. For a detailed list of these events that require a balanced mind to begin with and not a drone seeking a temporary escape route from the rat race you can find out more on the following link: http://eyfa.org/eyfa_newsletter/summer_events Also for a change I will recommend Vipassana as a method of inner travels and exploration, a territory within, the last "place" to be fully explored, mapped and experienced: http://www.dhamma.org/en/vipassana.shtml

Free Spaces

To live sustainably one must make connections between different branches of human development that in the last hundreds of years have been profesionalized and left to the experts to deal with. And even though a technocrat future is on some people's minds in this time and age there are still people starving in parts of the world and they are not because their land is poor and lacking nutrition but because people in Europe keep them in this state of poverty from which they can benefit: cheap labor, cheap sex slaves, cheap consumers. These social issues must also be taken in consideration by someone mentioning sustainability and not just the energy efficiency of this or that building, issues that would still not be taken in consideration by many people in a technocrat future. So many people do think that living sustainably is up to them and their communities. Of such spaces in today's program on Steps Beyond:

- impressions from the "street party for a free space in Luxembourg" (facebook group) and invitation to the open meeting on Wednesday 20.07 from 6 o'clock at cafe Independent in the city (http://freespacelux.blogsport.de);

- information on ZAD (Zone a Defendre), a freed territory close to Nantes, France (http://zad.nadir.org);

- information and open invitation to the Reclaim the Fields camp in Rosia Montana, Romania:
(http://www.reclaimthefields.org/node/329)
(http://www.nodirtygold.org/rosia_montana_romania.cfm);

- announcement of the launch of the new edition of the Queesch magazine which has as a theme "FREE SPACES" ( http://queesch.lu ).

Also information on the usual topic that is being discussed regularly when talking about sustainability, the environment and in this case the oceans and their depleting fish population from Jean Noel, student in Luxembourg, all and some more in today's Monday the 18th of July 2011 program.

P.S. thanks to the YASI team for welcoming me so warmly in their group which I was grateful to have the chance to share my limited knowledge of radio with: http://yasinstitute.org Thanks to them and their openess I would now be ready to repeat the experience and be more confident about it.

The music breaks will introduce a special band with very meaningful lyrics called the Tin Tree Factory of which you can find out more and download their music for free here: http://www.tintreefactory.com