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On Earth: Zero = Everything

I was never a big fan of lemon balm tea but one day, I went to the supermarket and decided to buy some lemon balm seeds to grow in my balcony! I know, it makes no sense. At the beginning of popping out from the soil…

6 May, 2025

Rita Casalão

Breaking 2400 years of misunderstandings

It seems that Mr. Aristotle, who lived between 383 and 322 BC, argued that plants—and, in fact, everything related to the plant world, including the soil—were closer to the inorganic world than to the world of living beings…

16 April, 2025

Rita Casalão

Sustainable—the unwanted desire

The fact that no one cares about this word anymore makes me curious. When the word “sustainable” or “sustainability” is spoken out loud, I can see in my mind a vast group of people rolling over their eyes and shrugging their shoulders like, “Here it comes…” But honestly, I do not understand what such an allergy is about. Sustainable, according to the dictionary, means…

27 March, 2025

Rita Casalão