@christianccummins.bsky.social
Presenter, Journalist, nature lover, music fan. dad.
It is going to be a golden and global @fm4.orf.at #sunnysideup today with new gnawa music from Morocco, Tamara Flores celebrating her mum's village in Mexico, a party in Kampala, a Colombian island, a beach in northern Brazil & TASHEENO's collab with General Levy
10AM HERE: fm4.orf.at/player/live
Gerade auf Papier gelesen, sehr tolle Story, @christianccummins.bsky.social, da starte ich gleich mit einer Prise mehr Zuversicht und Tatendrang in den Tag. 🐗🐂🪲
18.10.2025 08:01 — 👍 16 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 1Thank you @asator.bsky.social - when the best podcaster in Austria is motivated, I'm happy! #KneppEstate
18.10.2025 08:19 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Vor 25 Jahren begannen zwei englische Öko-Pioniere, ausgelaugtes Agrarland zu revitalisieren – mit Erfolg: Heute ist @kneppwilding.bsky.social in Sussex ein florierender Biodiversitäts-Hotspot. Besuch von @christianccummins.bsky.social in einem wiedergewonnenen Paradies ↓
17.10.2025 15:01 — 👍 16 🔁 6 💬 0 📌 2
"This story is about the past but also about the present. What would #Greenland have looked like if #Denmark didn’t extract wealth from there without Greenland having any chance to benefit? “Definitely, it’s an important speculation” says Naja."
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It was so interesting meeting both Naja Graugaard and Mark Nuttal that I wrote a story about #Greenland, its minerals, its ecology and its autonomy: (with photos from intrepid roaming reporter @jackeparrock.bsky.social!) fm4.orf.at/stories/3050...
16.10.2025 15:12 — 👍 2 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0We agree. It is about learning from the past and not only making sure that local people benefit more from the revenue but are more empowered in decision-making. That would be relevant to Greenland today, or, for example, Serbian lithium mining plans. It's about learning, not about feeling guilty
16.10.2025 08:11 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0I'm English. I don't want to take on a lecturing tone. But just as it seems right that it should be the people who live in DR Congo who should benefit from those natural resources now, so too it seems to me right that the minerals extracted from Greenland pre-1979 should have benefited locals more.
16.10.2025 08:01 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0I won't claim to be an expert after watching one film, talking to one researcher, reading some articles &... erm watching Borgen 😉 but the take-away for me was that until 1979 Denmark felt it "owned" the ground of Greenland. Trump seems to think he could. Is there enough thought of #Inuit welfare?
16.10.2025 06:53 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
Rather than ramping up their own weapons production, European countries are giving in to Trump's demand that they pay simply to transfer American weapons to Ukraine (since the US is stopping direct military aid).
Is 🇺🇸 profiting off 🇺🇦 suffering?
"#NATO got PURLed yesterday... If Europeans are expected to now be 100% financing this effort, then why shouldn’t Europeans be running it? And why shouldn’t they be doing so, as much as currently possible, with their own weapons?"
@davekeating.substack.com
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Maybe watch the film? I think the USA is relevant to the film in terms of what happens to Greenland's resources in the future, but it is basically about outsiders eyeing up the land for mineral resources and not thinking about the welfare/rights of the community: www.youtube.com/watch?v=m7wK...
16.10.2025 05:39 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
It took editing patience from @kkropshofer.bsky.social but to get to go the @kneppwilding.bsky.social & then write about it a brilliant newspaper was such a privilege.
There is so much bad news about the environment, this shows #nature can bounce back!
@falter.at
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Denmark has always framed itself as a "good colonialist" bringing (especially post-WWII) healthcare, education, infrastructure, and modern governance to #Greenland. A new film "Greenland's White Gold" suggest a more exploitative relationship: fm4.orf.at/player/20251... via @fm4.orf.at @iwm.at
15.10.2025 16:33 — 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0Climate protection is not too expensive, failing to protect the climate is too expensive.
15.10.2025 06:43 — 👍 9 🔁 6 💬 0 📌 0
Greenpeace says it has uncovered evidence of "cattle laundering" in the #Amazon, indigenous land being illegally used for ranching and the #beef might end up in the #EU: and cattle grazing is a key driver of deforestation.: @greenpeace.at fm4.orf.at/player/20251... via @fm4.orf.at
14.10.2025 16:49 — 👍 5 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
If you have ever wondered why Finnish cattle were so notoriously knowledgeable...
14.10.2025 16:39 — 👍 11 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0
I met the protagonist of this film in Vienna this week. A fascinating story with lessons about the future. #Greenland or Kalaallit Nunaat has rich mineral resources, but they haven't benefitted the people enough. With a scramble for its #rareearths this is a lesson: www.youtube.com/watch?v=m7wK...
14.10.2025 15:32 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0There are things we worry about, and things we should worry about...
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"You know, I think we’re all living in a period of time right now where we’re all going to have to figure out how to live together, aren’t we? And we’ve all got very different opinions.”
Keira knows how to save friendships
www.theguardian.com/film/2025/oc...
Elegant abandonment. #vienna
14.10.2025 09:47 — 👍 8 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0"peace"
13.10.2025 06:13 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
"The cattle eat some plants but leave others alone, securing varied grasslands which provide a habitat for countless insects and many species."
#biodiversity
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I really want to read this memoir - she's so human. #Malala www.theguardian.com/world/2025/o...
12.10.2025 16:33 — 👍 7 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Today on @fm4.orf.at FM4's #sunnysideup, I'm going to play an entirely crazy song an Indian-Tamil artist called Usha Uthup. There's also wonderful #shark-inspired music by Haitheque, the latest very, catchy release from Hearts Hearts and a Proustian chanson! 10am CET fm4.orf.at/player/live
12.10.2025 06:30 — 👍 7 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
"I’d come to the region for the landscape, but it was the friendly generosity of the Waldviertler community that left the biggest impression." #cycling #austria
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"#RadioFreeEurope's journalists have been pissing off dictators for 75 years. And when you are making that kind of enemy, you are doing the right thing"
Apparently press freedom day was in May, but in 2025 it seems important to celebrate it every day.
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"The whole country celebrates our team heroes"
I find this endearing. Austria just overcame San Marino in a football match
(admittedly it was 10-0)
It really does say something when an article about reactions to a coal power plant continuing to operate says nothing about climate change, the existential threat it poses and the need to phase out oil, gas and coal.
10.10.2025 19:57 — 👍 111 🔁 43 💬 6 📌 4The #Trump Administrations new definition of #freespech according to @theatlantic.com :
"conservatives can say what they want, and everyone else can say what conservatives want."
