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Sustainable Tourism

Berlin writer Beatrice introduces us to sustainable tourism initiatives, guided tours and encounters in Germany while Kiwi blogger Jub reports which initiatives there are in New Zealand that support sustainable tourism.

Sustainable Tourism
 Visit to the Klosterbuch “ark farm”: endangered livestock breeds and holistic agriculture

Sustainable Tourism
 Eco tours to the Māori Rock Carving on Lake Taupō

News from culture and society

The blockchain has the potential to change many areas of our society. Photo (detail): © Adobe / Siarhei

Blockchain
 After the Hype

The crypto currency Bitcoin turned many into millionaires overnight and was on the tip of everyone’s tongue, especially once it reached an all-time high in 2017.  Public interest in Bitcoin and the technology behind it, the blockchain, dropped in keeping with currency’s abrupt fall. So what is going on with the technology today?
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Lisa Mandel
 “There’s no such thing as women’s comics”

Ever since her 2014 cult parody Les hommes et la BD (“Men and Comics”), Lisa Mandel and the Collective of Female Comics Creators Against Sexism have been staking out a place for women in the world of comics. An uphill battle – and long overdue.
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Word! The Language Column
 How many Words does the German Language have?

Coining new words is a cinch in German. But not every neologism belongs in a dictionary. Kathrin Kunkel-Razum talks about sifting through long word lists for the next edition of the “Rechtschreibduden”, the standard German spelling dictionary.

In Focus

Tour Total, Berlin Christine Müller, picture alliance/Westend61

Video Series
 ARCHlab – Architecture in the 21st Century

In short video portraits, international architects talk about a building designed and realised by them. They keep asking themselves the question: How do we live and work in the future? Our video series ARCHlab shows the answers architects have found to questions like these.
Illustration of a harbour. On the left is a sail boot. People are eating in a restaurant. In the background you can see buildings of harbour cities in Germany and New Zealand. © Goethe-Institut

Culinary Harbour Cities

From roof-top restaurant beehives to indoor farming, long-line fishing and coffee labs: monthly dispatches from New Zealand and Germany focusing on what makes culinary harbour cities such as Hamburg, Auckland and Wellington distinct

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