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Designer comes up with floating co-working space, inspired by bubbles and accessible only by KAJAK

According to the designer, the co-working space that floats on the river Vistula in Kraków, near Wawel Castle, offers workers an innovative space close to nature and is adapted to our COVID-era reality. Agnieszka Białek/ Monolight Studios

According to designer Agnieszka Białek’s website: “The concept uses new technologies and methods of creation and design. “The creative process was guided by ecological values, especially the limitation of degradation of natural ecosystems, allowing the coexistence of nature and architecture.

Abandoned amphitheatre to be transformed into eco-friendly ‘honey garden’ for bees

Unique to Poland, and possibly the world, the 3 million PLN project in Poznań will see former seating areas replaced by flowerbeds specifically intended to attract bees, and will be further embellished by nectar-bearing trees, sculptures, viewing points, water cascades and subtle lighting purposefully designed so as not to interfere with their activities.

Opposition presents pandemic aid programme

Poland's main opposition party Civic Platform on Saturday presented its plan for combating the crisis caused by the Covid-19 pandemic.

Don’t worry be frappe, Kraków officials tell locals as they sprinkle COFFEE on pathways to stop people slipping over

Inspired by an initiative started in Ukraine, so far 40 cafes around the city have answered the eco-friendly call to donate used coffee grounds. If effective the coffee grounds will be used on main paths around the city and could become a mainstay of the city’s strategy for maintaining the accessibility of Kraków’s parks in winter.

As Poland’s first eco-certified food bazar celebrates its tenth birthday, TFN explores the eco boom

Opened in November 2010, Warsaw’s BioBazar helped plant the seeds of change and spark a food revolution in the process. 

Poland rolls out new law enhancing anti-smog programmes

Credits and loans granted for ecological projects will enjoy repayment guarantees and sureties from a special fund set up under the amended act on supporting thermal modernisation, signed by President Andrzej Duda on Friday.

‘Eco musician’ makes world’s first carbon-neutral album

VIDEO: Pianist/producer Wojtek Szczepanik used 100 percent renewable energy when recording his piano section to offset the 78kg of CO2 in electricity and the 147kg of CO2 used in the complete production.

Warsaw one of Europe’s Top 10 eco-friendly cities, says new report

In a survey conducted by Essential Living, the Polish capital came in at number nine on the green ranking, sandwiched between Vienna at number eight and Barcelona.

Smog-eating mural goes up on Warsaw wall

The mural will have the same ecological effect as planting 720 trees.

Waste map, want not: zero-waste map points Kraków in a green direction

The new maps aim to promote local businesses and limit waste.

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History | Life

Identity of mystery woman photographed nearly 40 years ago uncovered following museum appeal

Taken in Wrocław by world-renowned photographer Chris Niedenthal, the photo shows a young, rosy-cheeked woman in a floral dress, leaning one arm against a concrete balcony as the other appears to brush back a lock of her raven hair. Originally published in a German magazine in 1982, the photo quickly became as iconic as the building itself.

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Forgotten composer who played for Polish king and co-founded Edinburgh Festival rediscovered after distant relative finds online ad for his rare piano

Josie Dixon had little idea that her great-great-great-great grandfather Felix Yaniewicz was one of the 19th century’s most notable composers until a chance conversation about a Stradivarius violin led her on a path of discovery.

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