How is walking an ecological practice? Walking can make us perceptive and open us up to an ecopraxis, attentive to the complex patterns of life. By David Haley, Manchester (UK)

Which spaces is left for politica-artistic performances and for traditional cultural expressions, on the shrinking pavements of creative cities? Pondering on pavements, the author questions the links between culture and development... By P. Radhika, Bangalore (India)

The TS2 (Transfer Station 2) is a collaborative art installation project focused on creating a model of community-industry cooperation for environmental sustainability. The Slow Art Collective, initiators of the project, exhibited the work at the Incinerator Arts Complex in Melbourne in August-September 2009. Review by Adam Broinowski, Melbourne (AUS).

The conference “Creating Cities: Culture, Space, and Sustainability” took place from February 25th, 2010 to February 27th, 2010 at the Japan Center of the Ludwig Maximilians University of Munich. By Julia Hahn, Lüneburg (D).

For two weeks, ecological artist Aviva Rahmani was active in Copenhagen, both inside and outside the official COP15 conference. In retrospect, she accounts on her experience. Her personal account illustrates some of the difficulties felt by activists and artists who were involved at COP15 in the past month. By Aviva Rahmani, New York (USA)

Who knows if there are still followers of Zarathustra in India and Pakistan? In this article, the author brings you to the megacity of Karachi, south of Pakistan. This city is a gateway to much questioning regarding the contemporary environmental crisis. By David Knaute, Karachi (Pakistan).

Alongside COP15, I am being in Copenhagen this week, taking part in a number of parallel events in the city, dealing with the role of the arts and culture for sustainability. I will give some feedback from these events on a daily basis. By Sacha Kagan, from Copenhagen.

Art and culture are said to be the mirrors of the world as a whole. What kind of mirrors are we looking to be? Are we all becoming Hopenhageners? A few words from Copenhagen in a state of growing buzz. By Oleg Koefoed (Cultura21 Nordic), Copenhagen.

A short insight into life among the Ktunaxa tribe of British Columbia. By Star Hungry Wolf Cardinal, British Columbia (Canada).

Ahmed worked for the German television in Somalia. He was a ”Stringer”, a local assistant: without them, foreign journalists in war-areas such as Somalia, Iraq or Afghanistan would be unable to work. Their existence remains in the shadow of the great reporters. Von Ahmed Jimale, Sweden.