Antonis Tritsis: In Memoriam
A year after the death of the Mayor of Athens, Cultural Minister Dora Bakoyianni is making the Tritsis Plan for a city-wide park a reality.
A year after the death of the Mayor of Athens, Cultural Minister Dora Bakoyianni is making the Tritsis Plan for a city-wide park a reality.
Decision-makers – that agreeable combination of sounds – are finally becoming aware of the fact that the environment can take no more vile treatment, for they see that we are ‘prisoners’ of the biosphere. Others consider their body to be their limit. It is indeed alienation that seems to have no limits.
It is true that the Romans were not quite civilized when they came to this part of the world. They were, however, honest enough to agree with Horace; they copied much, if not all from Greece, and definitely its culture.
Plans are afoot to create an independent Forest Fund which will put protection and management together on a sound, professional, year-round basis.
Through persistent lobbying, one of the oldest Greek organizations in environmental activity, The Hellenic Society for the Protection of Nature, fights to preserve the ecological inheritance.
“The Church is Heaven on earth where the Celestial God lives and prevails” Patriarch Germain(633-733
It is not just Constantinople; it is also Istanbul, a city of mixed, mainly Oriental, origin with a touch of Levantine flair.
“The mountains look on Marathon-” wrote Byron, not imagining they might one day be comprised of rubbish, but the Ministry of the Interior may bring this miracle about.