Beton a hlína - Rozhovory o šetrnosti a udržitelnosti ve městě – Hanišová Viktorie (2021)

The climate crisis does not spare cities. And city dwellers do not escape the climate crisis. Most inhabitants of the Western world live in cities. In an environment that has replaced nature in our cultural imagination, in the 'concrete jungle.' Life in the city is therefore automatically associated with its opposite — with careers, speed, progress, civilization. However, the global perspective of the climate crisis shows that nothing could be further from the truth: fires, floods, and droughts do not ask for an address. This realization can also be reached through careful local examination. Here is a flowerbed, compost smells from somewhere, bees buzz everywhere, someone has planted a tree over there, eggs from free-range hens are sold in the store, a little flower on the café table is from wild plants… Writer Viktorie Hanišová captures the diverse efforts of people to live sustainably and responsibly even in the hectic environment of cities in her book Concrete and Clay through thirteen interviews. She interviews enthusiasts from community gardens, activists from gardening colonies, Prague beekeepers, organizers of composting systems, and operators of zero-waste stores. Each story and approach differs, but in one respect, all the interviewees are equally clear — to the critical question 'What to do?'...