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Updates to Global Geneva Insights
Coffee
For International Coffee Day, DONA, the Swiss-based supplier of coffee from women's enterprises is offering 20% off your next order if you sign up to its journal — dona — 1 October 2022 (LINK)
Coffee with a mission — from Switzerland, where else? (LINK).
Environment
Corals
The aspiring 'coral factory' restoring reefs wrecked by climate change — washingtonpost — 29 September 2022 (LINK)
Coral Vita has raised more than $4 million in funding from a roster of investors including Sustainable Ocean Alliance, Apollo Projects and Builders Initiative. It planted corals for the first time earlier this year. The company has grown its team to more than a dozen people. Coral Vita signed its first restoration contracts with the Bahamian government and the Grand Bahama Port Authority in 2021. paying visitors can take an educational tour of the farm. Coral Vita also has an adopt-a-coral program, through which individuals and corporations can sponsor anything from small fragments to entire tanks. Last year the coral adoption program brought in more than $60,000. The company was recognized in 2021 as one of five inaugural Earthshot Prize winners, an environmental award established by Britain's Prince William that gives awardees a million pounds (about $1.07 million in today's dollar) each to fund their work.
Coral Vita: Making reef rescue fun — and a business (LINK).
Environment
The environmentalists at the heart of Maine's booming oyster business — bangordailynews — 29 September 2022 (LINK)
Letter from Maine's 'Oyster Lady': The comeback of a mollusk healthy for food and the planet (LINK).
Swiss
Statistics prove Roger Federer's class, but his love for his opponents shows his greatness — theguardian — 26 September 2022 (LINK)
Roger Federer retires: Twitter reacts as Rafael Nadal sheds tears after Federer's final match in Laver Cup — indiatvnews — 24 September 2022 (LINK)
Protester against private jets sets arm on fire on O2 tennis court ahead of Roger Federer's farewell match at Laver Cup — ground.news — 24 September 2022 (LINK)
'Roger Federer, welcome home!': When Roger is on form, even the ball seems to take on its own balletic path across the court (LINK).
Swiss creators
Top 10 Helvetica alternatives for graphic designers — creativeboom — 20 September 2022 (LINK)
—including "probably the best typeface ever designed": Akzidenz-Grotesk by H. Berthold, plus Avenir and Univers by iconic Swiss designer Adrian Frutiger.
HELVETICA: Swiss Style and 60 years of font war (LINK). This notes that many designers consider Frutiger "the best general typeface ever". It features on Swiss road signs and Dutch railway stations.
Culture
Jean-Luc Godard, giant of the French new wave, dies at 91 — theguardian — 13 September 2022 (LINK)
— His family apparently said he died peacefully at home and there will be no funeral service, only a cremation. New York Times
— Godard's 12 Best Films: A Beginner's Guide to the Great Filmmaker's Work indiewire, but not this:
Made in U.S.A. — Godard spills the beans on politics and atrocity in a fantasy that seems more and more realistic (LINK)
Media
10 things you should know about AI in journalism — lse — 7 September 2022 (LINK)
"Why I prefer my news from AI…" (LINK)
Digital nomads
The darker side of digital nomadism — theconversation — 7 September 2022 (LINK)
How to choose the best digital nomad visa and what to consider before applying: Barbados, Malta — euronews — 12 February 2022 (LINK)
The best countries for digital nomads: Iceland, Estonia, Barbados, Croatia, Costa Rica — regus — 9 August 2021 (LINK)
Hit by coronavirus, Philippine beach resorts target local long-stay tourists,
digital nomads — scmp — 28 February 2021
"There is even a new online booking platform for resorts offering monthly packages that will allow guests to continue working while at the beach."
My 10 Favorite Digital Nomad Bases — medium — 18 Jan 2021 (LINK)
Digital nomads, Caribbean revolutionaries and making the best of lockdown through NBN (LINK)
Swiss icons
7 unconventional uses for your Swiss Army knife — esquire — 7 September 2022 (LINK)
What makes the Swiss army knife so special? The U.S. soldier (LINK)
Food etc.
Single-serve coffee balls touted as compostable alternative to pods — newatlas — 6 September 2022 (LINK) Backed by Migros (link in French)
Coffee with a mission – from Switzerland, where else? (LINK)
Counterpoint
How Bill Gates is reinventing the toilet and why it's a game changer — benzinga — 28 August 2022: (LINK)
Perfumed toilets: going round the S-bend? (LINK)
From the field: Okinawa
Jon Mitchell's investigations for Okinawa Times — okinawatimes — 6 August 2022 — (LINK)
The Continuing Battle for Okinawa (LINK)
Culture: Films
JD Vance: Trump-backed contender clinches Ohio Senate race — bbc — 4 May 2022 (LINK)
What happened to J.D. Vance — motherjones — 3 May 2022 (LINK)
Understanding the hysteria over Hillbilly Elegy (LINK)
P.S. Rotten Tomatoes audience score: 83 percent. Critics' score: 25 percent.
History: Holocaust
Anne Frank betrayal book pulled after findings discredited — bbc — 23 March 2022 (LINK)
Remembering Anne Frank — and Buddy Elias, guardian of a teenage legacy (LINK)
Environment
Rarely Seen Paintings by J.R.R. Tolkien Portray a Lush 'Lord of the Rings' Landscape — smithsonianmag — 18 March 2022 (LINK)
Tolkien's Switzerland — and much more — is in jeopardy (LINK)
Environment
Earthshot Prize: Costa Rica wins £1m from William's Earthshot prize — bbc — 18 October 2021 (LINK)
The winning project is a scheme paying local citizens to restore natural ecosystems that has led to a revival of the rainforest.
Another winner: Coral Vita, Bahamas: A project run by two best friends who are growing coral in the Bahamas, designed to restore the world's dying coral reefs. Using special tanks, they have developed a way to grow coral up to 50 times faster than they normally take in nature.
Coral Vita: Making reef rescue fun — and a business — (LINK)
Young conservationists call for help to take their seat at the table — genevasolutions — 14 September 2021 (LINK)
Agenda 2021: a youth cure for the UN (LINK)
Overfishing
Seven Reasons to Be Optimistic About the World's Oceans — smithsonianmag — 11 August 2021 (LINK)
Overfishing: The greatest threat to our oceans (LINK)
Bahamas
Businessman Mario Carey calls FTX's landing in The Bahamas 'the holy grail of financial services' — ewnews — 11 January 2022 (LINK)
Downhill from 2016: Grand Bahama growth "stunted" after back-to-back hurricanes, notes IDB report — ewnews — 22 September 2021 (LINK)
Real estate agent says cruise homeporting can revolutionize economy — ewnews — 22 September 2021 (LINK)
Caribbean Dreams – Economic Nightmares (LINK)
Travels in Switzerland
When the Nobel Prize Committee Rejected The Lord of the Rings: Tolkien "Has Not Measured Up to Storytelling of the Highest Quality" — (1961) openculture.com — 22 September 2021 (LINK)
Tolkien's Switzerland – and much more – is in jeopardy (LINK)
Internet
Can MIT's Tim Berners-Lee Save the Web? — bostonmagazine — 14 September 2021 (LINK)
Tim Berners-Lee, a SOLID defender of Internet users (LINK)
From the Field
Why the Island Nation of Palau Is Going Crypto — decrypt — 12 January 2022 (LINK)
At the Edge of the World (LINK)
Coral Reefs
The Sudan expedition postponed to 2022 — trsc — 9 August 2021 (LINK)
"The postponement of this first mission is due to the prolonged immobilisation of the sailing vessel Fleur de Passion following an incident in the Gulf of Aqaba on July 21st."
Reef Rescue: ETH alumni Marie Griesmar and Ulrike Pfreundt are printing 3D Lego-like clay bricks to help rebuild and regenerate the world's coral reefs — the-good-times.org — 12 July 2021 (LINK)
First Immortal Cell Line Cultured for Reef-Building Corals — the-scientist.com — 1 July 2021 (LINK)
Transnational Red Sea project to save coral reefs launched in Aqaba (LINK)
The Last Great Coral Reef Wilderness (LINK)
Coral Vita: Making reef rescue fun – and a business (LINK)
Digital Switzerland
Internet Computer (ICP) logs revenge recovery after crashing 95% since launch — cointelegraph — 28 June 2021 (LINK)
A Swiss initiative to redo the Internet: crypto scepticism abounds (LINK)
International
Swiss court jails Liberian commander for 20 years in war crimes case court jails Liberian commander in war crimes case — swissinfo — 18 June 2021 (LINK)
"No mitigating circumstances were taken into account in the sentencing. A deportation from Switzerland was also ordered for a period of 15 years," the said. Kosiah was also ordered to pay compensation to seven plaintiffs. Human Rights Watch called the sentencing a "landmark".
Jungle Jabbah, Alieu Kosiah and the fight against war crimes impunity (LINK)
WTO
Incoming WTO head warns 'vaccine nationalism' could slow pandemic recovery — reuters — 16 February 2021 (LINK)
Pan(dem)ic policies: what WTO can do (LINK)
