The Thinking Watermill Society

Remaining on the Norse mythology and drawing inspiration from such myth, the role of the squirrel is worth mentioning; by walking up and down the cosmic tree, it becomes spokesperson of the good (represented by ) and of the evil (represented by ) in the reciprocal insults they exchange unceasingly. The squirrel, running nimbly and relentlessly, plays the role of our media. Perhaps it cannot be bla...

Hello, and thank you to the Thinking Watermill Society for giving me this great opportunity to share my personal approach to the impending climate crisis. I believe self-innovation to be a key feature when it comes to empowering an individual of his great responsibility towards our environment. At the same time, I genuinely believe self-innovation, takes just a few small changes. For example, a ye...

The importance of studying history: for those who doubt about it, we will just mention the Norse mythology, in which Odin is always escorted by two crows, called “Thought” and “Memory”. Flying in the sky, the two crows report to the god what is going on. This myth dates back before the year 1,000 and it draws our attention on two things: even a god needs thought and memory to be what he is and dom...

Hello and thanks to the Thinking Watermill Society for this great initiative. When we speak about climate change and saving the planet, we tend to always talk about what corporations, politicians and scientists should do. That’s fair enough because they are among the most important actors in this topic. But it is too easy. In fact, I have always felt that we just do not do enough ourselves to chan...

Small changes to reverse course. In social living, a lot of small actions can entail big changes, small grains of sand can become mountains. Using less plastic doesn’t imply eliminating it, but it surely improves its management in disposing of and recycling plastic products; using public transport more often equals reducing carbon dioxide emissions; avoiding wastage or planting a tree means saving...

The negative impact of climate change is plain to see: the consequences of pollution, soil erosion, loss of green areas. At the same time, we are glad to witness people changing their habits, or at least trying to change them, limiting carbon dioxide emissions, reducing or eliminating the use of plastic, planting roses and plants in public areas. We invite our readers to send us their own podcasts...

Empowerment and in particular women empowerment, is one of the leitmotifs that The Thinking Watermill Society works to pursue. Starting way back from the history of humanity to the moment when men began to live together, which is probably the birth of humanity in itself, the theme of empowerment has accompanied all those who could not decide for themselves in a more or less conscious way. An undou...