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Raiz: Bringing Vertical Farming to Lisbon
The exciting new possibility of vertical farming in Lisbon means avoiding the carbon footprint of shipping, unwarranted pesticides, and deforestation can be game-changing.

Update: Where to Get a COVID Test in Lisbon and the Rest of Portugal
Fair warning: you’ll need a plan.

Momentous Eventus: Repetitiousness Edition
“Time is a flat circle. Everything we have done or will do we will do over and over and over again—forever.”
Friedrich Nietzsche (again).

Lisbon Drops from No. 3 to No. 18 Among Top Cities for Expats
Apparently, expats aren’t super happy with career opportunities in the city, for one, but also transport, “health and environment” — is it because we all smoke? — and other issues.

Locked, Stocked, and Superbocked
Super Bock em Stock proved to be a fine closure to the first almost-normal festival season Portugal has seen since 2019.

Momentous Eventus: Obrigadinhos Giving Edition
“Gratitude is a quality similar to electricity: It must be produced and discharged and used up in order to exist at all.” William Faulkner.

Momentous Eventus: Men, Women, Children,Toilets Edition
“I think toilets are more important than temples.”
Narendra Damodardas Modi (current Prime Minister of India).

Momentous Eventus: In from the Cold Edition
“Love keeps the cold out better than a cloak.”
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow.

Momentous Eventus: Bonfire Night Edition
“Remember, remember, the Fifth of November,
Gunpowder treason and plot.
I see no reason why gunpowder treason
should ever be forgot.”
John Milton.

Momentous Eventus: Samhain Nights Edition
“Every day is Halloween, isn’t it? For some of us.” Tim Burton.

Momentous Eventus: Good Bye Summer Edition
“People don’t notice whether it’s winter or summer when they’re happy.”
Anton Chekhov.