Of paint, posts, and personholes

As I’ve mentioned before, my wife is Croatian and still lives and works in Zagreb, meaning that I spend a good portion of the year down there to be together with her. (And before all the usual civil-servant jokes start surfacing, I want to point out two things. First, as nice as Zagreb is, itContinue reading “Of paint, posts, and personholes”

Waste not, think not

This story is actually comparatively old, but work isn’t especially enticing at the moment. So … Nearly two years ago, “wiser” heads in Zagreb were searching for some way to get the city’s residents to recycle more. Although Zagreb uses all the standard bins (household, organic, paper, and plastic waste), its Zagrebians don’t. Or atContinue reading “Waste not, think not”