Oana Filip

6 days ago | eurozine.com | Oana Filip |Misha Glenny

Groundwater supplies 65 % of the drinking water used in the EU. Europe has a great average performance when it comes to water infrastructures, and much of the continent is geographically lucky to have access to this resource. But it’s not universal, and things have been breaking down in recent years as climate change shows its effects and the South, the East and even Central Europe are gradually drying up.

Mar 5, 2024 | publicseminar.org | Oana Filip |Liviu Chelcea |Reynard Loki |Pamela Ballinger

Image Credit: “Water Pollution” by HooverStreetStudios is licensed under CC BY-NC 2.0.Water use has always been an indicator of social relations. In western societies, most treat drinking water as a simultaneously infinite and hyper-individualized resource. But plastic pollution and the climate emergency are forcing us to question our consumption habits. Oana Filip: How did your academic interest in water develop?

Feb 16, 2024 | eurozine.com | Fabien Perrier |Oana Filip |Staffan Graner |Markus Wild

Two billion euros! This may be the cost of the series of climatic disasters that hit the country between mid-July and mid-September, as estimated by Moschos Korasidis, managing director of the National Union of Agricultural Cooperatives of Greece. Giorgos Stratakos, secretary general of the Greek ministry of agriculture, agrees: ‘It’s a global problem’. The fires first ravaged the area around Alexandroupoli, the main town in the agricultural region of Evros in the northeast of the country.

Jan 22, 2024 | eurozine.com | Liviu Chelcea |Oana Filip

Oana Filip: How did your academic interest in water develop? Liviu Chelcea: I started becoming interested in water supply systems when I was doing research into housing nationalisation and restitution for my doctorate. This led me to apply for a Fulbright scholarship in the field of urban infrastructure, based at the New School for Social Research in New York.

May 5, 2023 | commsor.com | Oana Filip

The 2010s was an era where companies put the pedal to the metal and showed us how the world wide web could transform regular businesses into unicorns. Marketing, for better and worse, heavily impacted the rhetoric. People obsessed over the new kid on the digital block: growth marketing. This strategy includes a collection of marketing concepts that, put together, promises to accelerate traction and, of course, revenue. TLDR; More data = better decisions = more cash.