With travelers increasingly aware of the environment, having a ranking of most sustainable beaches to its ranking is exactly what travelers need.
Archiving: Making archives accessible through digitisation
In the past years, digitisation has been a huge challenge for the National Archives. The archivists have been digitising paper documents, while planning how to store documents that exist only online. For the National Archives, digitisation is an opportunity to make archives more accessible. In our interview on Local Matters, the director of the National Archives Josée Kirps explains the recent strategies and challenges.
Archiving: Six weeks after the blaze in Junglinster
In the end of January, the townhall of Junglinster caught fire. The roof collapsed into the municipal archives. Even though luckily no important documents have burnt, some communes have started focusing more on the relevance of their municipal archives after the incident. On Local Matters this week, we take this as an occasion to talk about archiving.
What's Right: New EU law to protect media freedom approved
The European Parliament has approved laws that protect from malign interference and limit the use of spyware against journalists. It also obliges outlets to transparently disclose information about ownership, funding, and state advertising.
Catch a smile!
"In November 2015, a group of 9 Luxembourgish volunteers joined a relief convoy to the Balkans to actively help people escaping from their home countries. Afterward, the motivation was even greater to continue, fueled by further demands from others wanting to help as well. Fabienne, the president of the association, told us the secret of how to bring a smile! Listen to the interview to find out."
Bajaga (Balkan Express 151)
Bajaga i Instruktori came about just as the Yugoslav rock scene was peaking. Quickly, they established themselves as cornerstones of Serbian rock music and became popular in the rest of the country, and internationally as well. Check them out in this week’s Balkan Express on Ara City Radio.
Shades of Eurosong (Top of the EU Pops 11-03-24)
If last week we though we had plenty of new tracks on Top of the EU Pops, this week asked us to hold its beer. Not only are there Baby Lasagna and Joost, from Croatia and the Netherlands respectively. There’s Dua Lupa, too, and Diplo, with its Track of the Week here on Ara City Radio.
British & Irish Film Festival Luxembourg 2024
Geoff Thompson, Festival Organiser and President of Festival Events Asbl, joined the breakfast show to discuss the upcoming 15th British & Irish Film Festival Luxembourg 2024.
What's right: A study has shown that a vegan diet is healthier than a meat-based diet.
A research conducted on twins revealed that a vegan diet can significantly improve cardiovascular health in as little as eight weeks, resulting in lower levels of 'bad' cholesterol and insulin and weight loss as a result.
New Music Monday - 11/03/2024
Huzzah! Another Monday can only mean one thing… A fresh dollop of Simon's awesome audio selections, wrenched from the new music released within the last week.
What's right: Law against gender pay gap comes
All EU based large companies will have to tackle the gender pay gap and make figures public. The EU pay transparency directive obliges all member states to draft a respective legislation. Get all the details on today's "What's right with the world”.
What's right: Replacing oldfashioned references in Ireland's constitution
Ireland will vote today to replace old-fashioned and sexist references in the constitution on the importance of women's life within the home as part of updating the conservative document stemming from 1937.
Making abortion rights constitutional in Luxembourg?
In the beginning of this week, lawmakers in France voted in favor of making abortion rights constitutional. The planning familial Asbl has been advocating to take the same step in Luxembourg as well. In our interview on Local Matters, Ainhoa Achutegui, president of Planning Familial, explains why this is so important and how accessible abortion is in Luxembourg nowadays.
That's why we still need women's rights day
Why do we still need a women’s rights day in Luxembourg? What are the political demands for more gender equality? On the brink of this year’s International Women’s Day, we’ve invited Gabrielle Antar and Amandine Gorse from the platform Journée Internationale des Femmes (JIF) to answer these questions.
What's right: Ban microplastics from drinking water
Scientists have found a surprisingly simple way to remove nano plastics and microplastics (NMP's) from drinking water. By boiling water, the nmp's are 'encrusted' with limescale - or calcium carbonate - the chalky substance commonly seen in kitchen kettles. Sieving the boiled water can then eliminate up to 90% of NMP's.
LM on tour: A visit to the reopened National Resistance Museum
The National museum of Resistance and Human Rights in Esch was reopened last week, after almost 6 years of renovation works. On Local Matters, we've had a visit.
Support the ecological transition
Transition Minett, based in Esch-sur-Alzette, is a collective for raising awareness, exchanges, sharing, and actions for the Transition in the Minett. They bring together citizens for an ecological, inclusive, and united transition. Also, their mission is one of awareness, information, and mobilization aimed at the emergence and support of initiatives. Discover their projects by listening to interview.
What's right: a ground-breaking cure for alcoholism?
Using gene therapy, scientists have discovered that managing the level of the protein GDNF is key to the the correct transmission of dopamine, the feel-good neurotransmitter, in the brain. GDNF levels plummet when alcoholics abstain from drinking, leading to a dopamine shortage and feeling of discomfort, which makes alcoholics resort to drinking. Gene therapy is now thought to 'fix' GDNF levels, which could be a solution for those suffering from alcoholism.
Tetkine Radosti (Balkan Express 150)
The wonderfully weird thing about Tetkine Radosti, a Slovenian DJ collective, is that they actually raid long-forgotten stashes of vinyl, singles, LPs and EPs, usually laying in some dusty corner of a non-descript antiques shop. In there, they will find musical rarities from former Yugoslavia and mix them all together into their signature sound.
What's right: adapt to climate change by depaving
Depaving means getting rid of asphalt, cement and such and allows water to soak into the ground which reduces flooding in times of heavy rain. Once depaved, planting trees and plants helps wildlife cling on in urban spaces and trees protect residents from heatwaves. Greenery in cities is also said to improve people's mental health.