Environment

Another winter ended with the end of another episode of the Punic War between the concessionaire of the Bansko ski area and the strange couple DSB-Greens. This year, the bacchanalia erupted around the adoption of the new management plan for Pirin Park. Before the eyes of Bulgarians, the two sides once again clashed over the now legendary gondola lift …

Is it normal to wait for solutions in favor of only a handful of protesters, until the investor is completely wiped out? Hardly anyone would dispute that Sofia is a city that is constantly developing. Positive changes are a fact visible to everyone. Sofia is also the city with perhaps the most active residents. Unfortunately …

Or the story of how the far-right Bulgarian parties sided with the rich resorts against the poor municipalities. The Ministry of Environment and Water officially announced that an eco-assessment has never been done on a management plan for a Bulgarian natural or national park. Here we are talking about an external eco-assessment, since every draft plan for …

On Friday, a media storm erupted around a document signed by the acting Minister of Ecology (and around the Bansko resort), according to which the new Pirin Park management plan does not need an eco-assessment – just as no park management plan in Bulgaria has ever had one. An eco-assessment is being done …

Every winter, along with the Punic Wars around the second lift in Bansko, the first in Pamporovo and the zero lift in Vitosha, we hear the propaganda that there is no year-round tourism in the Bulgarian mountains. The understanding is instilled that in Bansko (Blagoevgrad), Pamporovo (Smolyan) and Borovets (Sofia region) some bad and stupid people invest in hotels and ski areas, …

Sustainable examples from the private sector In October, Coca-Cola HBC, the bottler of Coca-Cola products in Central and Eastern Europe, topped the global Dow Jones Sustainability Index (DJSI) in the Beverages sector for the third consecutive year. A week later, the company also published its new long-term goals for …

For half a year I have been reading about the violated right to free speech of Borislav Sandov and the injustice of the Bulgarian judicial system… At the same time, I observe his activities and try to determine their value. Apart from anti-everything activities, I don’t see anything else. To have the attitude that you can comment without being able to do – …

When I decided to change my eating habits in late fall 2014, I was worried about how my family, friends, and loved ones would react. I was afraid of the amount of arguments I would have to have to defend my conscious choice not to eat meat. What I expected happened, but …

At the end of 2015, days after the end of the climate talks in Paris, we published Boyan Rashev's forecast about where the blow from the new "green" policies would be taken. Today, the official preliminary data for 2015 became clear, which unequivocally confirmed Boyan's thesis - the victim will be Europe. Here ...

What I have said here is a response to numerous comments regarding my criticism of the DSB's view of how the government should act regarding the Yulen concession. My criticism was mainly about the procedure and its grounds. I shared the following about them. "DSB have given birth to a reformist vision for a ski area...