http://www.sustainable-everyday.net/lolaipbeja This is the blog of Beja Politechnical (School of teacher education), Beja, Portugal participating to the LOLA project within the Consumer Citizenship Network Thu, 28 Jun 2007 11:44:07 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en ESEB/IPBEJA Multimedia Communication and Education 1º year students and teacher in a class dedicated to LOLA. http://www.sustainable-everyday.net/lolaipbeja/?p=17 Personal insect zoo run by an autodidact. Social insects preservation, study and education. www.cappas-insectozoo.com.pt Vila Ruiva is a small village near Beja Mr. João Cappas built an insect zoo at home. He always loved insects and at the age of twelve contacted a famous Brazilian researcher who encouraged him to follow is ... http://www.sustainable-everyday.net/lolaipbeja/?p=16 A group of a small village neighbors drive the communitarian van when the eldest need to go to the city to attend medical treatments or other need. São Brissos is a small village near Beja When the eldest of São Brissos need a ride to Beja, to attend medical care ... http://www.sustainable-everyday.net/lolaipbeja/?p=14 An innovator and small business owner develops ecological swimming pools that can be used to combat fires, a summer nightmare in Portugal. www.ludusgroup.com Leiria is a city located in an industrial and business region. The center of Portugal as extensive areas dedicated to forestation. The summer heat facilitates big fires that compromise ... http://www.sustainable-everyday.net/lolaipbeja/?p=13 Medical personnel gives their free time to consult poor people from Barreiro, mainly elders. No money involved. Barreiro is a Industrial Town, near Lisbon. This initiative exists for two years and engages now 50 doctors, 16 nurses, 1 psychologist, 1 nutritionist, 1 social worker and 10 other volunteers. They offer their work ... http://www.sustainable-everyday.net/lolaipbeja/?p=12 A single mother trying to deal with her own economical problems in dressing her baby, finds a solution and shares it with many other parents. www.trocasebaldrocas.com The shop is located in Parede, near Lisbon and Cascais One of the problems of being a parent is the need to buy lots of ... http://www.sustainable-everyday.net/lolaipbeja/?p=11 A consumers cooperative devoted to sell and promote products from biological agriculture at reasonable prices and in the process, support dozens of biological agricultures. www.biocoop.coop The initiative is based in Lisbon. In Portugal, products from biological agriculture are present at the big supermarket chains but at high prices. BIOCOOP wants to make ... http://www.sustainable-everyday.net/lolaipbeja/?p=9 To fight the isolation of the seniors of Alentejo Litoral, a group of teachers created this academy. The elders learn new things, share what they know and above all make social connections. http://asas.chrome.pt/ The initiative is based in Santo André, a rural area devoted to turism in the summer. This academy began in ... http://www.sustainable-everyday.net/lolaipbeja/?p=8 A group of people, mainly retired, provide guidance and moral confort to the patients of the Hospital . Beja is a small town in the middle of the fertile plains of Baixo Alentejo In this region there are a lot of old people that live isolated in small agricultural ... http://www.sustainable-everyday.net/lolaipbeja/?p=7