In the framework of our editorial mission Green Europe on the Ground , cafebabel.com is sending 40 young journalists, photographers, photojournalists or videomakers 'on the ground'. The aim is to uncover the most innovative initiatives defining a city in our 'green Europe'. We're all fighting climate change!

'Green Europe': Budapest's long green road

We all knew that Hungary was taking over the rotating EU presidency on 1 January 2011, because we all heard about their dubious state plan for a media law. What we weren't too keyed up on as we launched our green resolutions for the new year was what they were planning to bring to the European ecology policy table. Green consumers and young Hungarian activists try to breath down public necks, as citizens such as urban cyclists and eco-designers show of their daily lives. This is not just a green country though, as it slowly recovers from its red toxic waste disaster in October 2010. cafebabel.com proudly presents the first edition in our 2011 monthly series, 'Green Europe on the ground'

INVESTIGATION

The importance of being eco-ideological in Budapest

Green is in fashion in the Hungarian capital, but the word is often just an empty trunk, a sales argument in a consumer world which forgot its ecological foundations long ago

by Aleksandra Sygiel @ // 13/01/11

consumers, green europe on the ground, environment, cities, environmental protection, society, budapest, ecology, lifestyle, design, best of cafebabel.com

FEATURE

Sludge-hit Hungary: Europe’s biggest ecological catastrophe since Chernobyl

Flour, lemon juice, vinegar, mineral water, detergent, wheelbarrows, gloves, face masks: it's not a shopping list but some of the donations urgently needed by the victims of the environmental catastrophe. cafebabel.com visits the area affected by the toxic sludge to find out how Hungarians have been helping their fellow countrymen

by Filip Jurzyk @ // 06/01/11

natural disaster, green europe on the ground, cities, environmental protection, accident, society, budapest, ecology, best of cafebabel.com

INVESTIGATION

Eco-architecture: Budapest creates a sustainable future

In the midst of the recession, the unstoppable growth rate of the world population and the increase of megacities, the Hungarian capital invents ecological buildings and cleans its water. Imagination and labour are two Hungarian clues in building a sustainable future

by Daniel Tordable @ // 03/01/11

green europe on the ground, architecture, society, budapest, ecology