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FREE MAY 2021 | EDITION 114 In this edition Green Up Revolutionising water usage in our home Until the Cows Come Home Meet a local cowherd An Ocean of Solitude A solo Atlantic row from Lagos Rebel with a Cause The Aljezur animal activist Indian Tand��ri Re�taurant ��������10% On all Take Aways We would like to inform our customers that we are Plus a Poppadums and chutney tray following all the hygiene and safety regulations ‘on the house’ recommended, to help us implement these regulations please call in advance to book your table. 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It is my favourite month, when we start to feel the days getting longer, the air getting warmer and are treated to a wonderful display of spring flowers. I was also delighted that a herd of cattle appeared behind my house to eat the long grass and you can read more about cows later in the magazine! There are also some goats residing in a field on my school run which have produced a total of five kids this spring. Then I realised that the cows and goats had been arriving every year but I never stopped to notice them. It reminds me of another poem by W H Davies: What is this life if, full of care, we have no time to stand and stare. No time to stand beneath the boughs and stare as long as sheep and cows. No time to see when woods we pass, where squirrels hide their nuts in grass. Like many, I have been enjoying meeting small groups of 3 Tomorrow Magazine ∙ May 2021 ∙ Tablet & Phone friendly version ∙ www.tomorrowalgarve.com friends and ending the monotony of nights at home with a few social outings, but I think that lockdown has taught us to take more notice of our surroundings. Given us time to “stand and stare”. It may have also helped us to take better care of the people around us. The Tomorrow charity TACT is, fingers crossed, going to help Vicente by contributing towards an operation to correct his hip, which is causing him a lot of suffering. During lockdown, there have been people who have helped, maybe not with money, but with kindness. If you would like to nominate someone who you feel has gone out of their way to help others during the pandemic and who you think deserves recognition, I would love to hear from you. We hope you have a wonderful month enjoying the “darling buds of May”. 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Now he looks set to make a lot of noise with an exciting new invention that could revolutionise water usage in our home. Pedro has just won the Green Up award, launched by Turismo de Portugal to encourage sustainable tourism. While I am excited to learn more about his invention, it is the man himself – and his vision for the future – who really impresses me. Pedro left school at 18 and became a professional musician, playing the drums in bands. To make ends meet, he worked for some years as a kitchen fitter, then an accountant, before becoming a music manager for other acts, including cover 8 Tomorrow Magazine ∙ May 2021 ∙ Tablet & Phone friendly version ∙ www.tomorrowalgarve.com COMMUNITY bands. As a musician, he was used to quiet periods in the winter with few gigs or bookings; instead of being idle, Pedro decided to educate himself in topics he was interested in. “I like to learn different things,” he tells me. “The downtime in winter allowed me to think and investigate. Since I was a young kid, I loved documentaries, especially about the history of humanity.” Pedro delved into subjects such as quantum physics, astrophysics and ecology. Initially, he searched online through videos and documentaries, then later enrolled for online courses. All the time he was learning more about ecology and hydrology, from universities as far afield as Australia and Brazil. The turning point when he put theory into practice came when he was invited by a friend to Tamera, a ´peace research and education centre´ near Odemira, which ignited his interest in permaculture. During his studies, Pedro had come across Jacque Fresco, an American futurist and self-professed social engineer. Fresco wrote and lectured about sustainable cities, energy efficiency, natural resource management, cybernetic technology, automation, and the role of science in society. “Fresco’s teachings taught me how to work with nature, not against it, in a homogenous way, using natural resources to 9 Tomorrow Magazine ∙ May 2021 ∙ Tablet & Phone friendly version ∙ www.tomorrowalgarve.com COMMUNITY move forward. I started to join the dots of all the different ‘ologies’ I had studied and to think and observe in order to make progress in society.” Around this time, Pedro was observing the effects of water shortages in the Algarve and was concerned by the 2019 drought. He enrolled on two workshops on sustainable construction, being particularly inspired by the work of Michael Reynolds and his ‘earth ship’ analogy. The American architect is a proponent of ‘radically sustainable living’ and has long been a critic of the profession of architecture for its adherence to conventional theory and practice.