Category: environmental
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Day ten of Orca in Switzerland – The New Normal
Reading Time: 3 minutesToday I’m getting to grips with the new normal. The new normal is queuing like people did before self-checkout and other technology. We also need to queue to get into shops and you either need to take a trolley or a shopping bag if you want to buy things. No more baskets…
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Day Nine of Orca in Switzerland – Not Our first Epidemic, but the most severe.
Reading Time: 2 minutesThis is not our first epidemic. In the 21st century I saw the actions to spread Foot and Mouth from spreading in South West England. Dartmoor was closed and precautions were taken to protect animals. We also lived through the BSE crisis, i.e. Mad cow disease. From 2002 we had the SARS…
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Day Eight of Orca in Switzerland – Herded like Cattle
Reading Time: 2 minutesToday I was herded like cattle at the shops and walked along the edge of a field I had never walked along before. At the shops they put tape up, like a maze to force people to walk a certain circuitous route. The circuitous route would be fascinating if the shops were…
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Day Six of Orca in Switzerland – Stricter measures.
Reading Time: 2 minutesToday’ I’d like to discuss stricter measures. Coop and Migros both have online shops set up for home delivery but the system is overloaded by people ordering at the same time. They don’t have the truck fleet or staff to cope with the demand so I suggest a better solution. Both Digitec…
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Day Four of Orca in Switzerland – Exploring the Trail Less Travelled
Reading Time: 3 minutesToday is Day Four of Orca in Switzerland and I saw that the Canton in which I live has the most active cases of COVID19 so my motivation both to go to shops and to go for walks has taken a hit. At the same time I don’t know whether it’s COVID…
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Day One of ORCA in Switzerland
Reading Time: 2 minutesDuring the weekend I thought that being in self-isolation would be a pleasant and enjoyable experience. The sound of cars is diminished. More people are walking and going for bike rides and the level of pollution could decline for at least a few days or even weeks. On the flip side I…
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Outdoor Sports and Pandemics
Reading Time: < 1 minuteIn theory, pandemics are terrible for your social life because you go from socialising in bars, pubs, restaurants, cinemas, theatres, and cafés to having to stay home like an indoor cat or a fish in an aquarium. For people like me, the thought of not being in crowds of 50 people…
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Banning Traffic from Cornavin
Reading Time: 3 minutesAlthough this article is two years old La Tribune de Genève wrote again about it and it appeared in my Google Newsfeed. I am not opposed to making cities pedestrian because I love to walk more than I like buses, trains, or other forms of transport. I actually do like trains. When…
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A Windy Day In Geneva
Reading Time: < 1 minuteThey announced that it would be windy today and it is. Windy days are fun because the lake goes from blue or green to English Breakfast tea brown. The waves crash against the walls and spray the promenade that goes from the Pont Du Mont Blanc to the Jardin Anglais. For…