Ana Maria Nedelcu

Festivals have always been designed as temporary worlds. Built fast. Felt deeply. Dismantled quickly.For a long time, that impermanence excused many things. Short-term impact. Short-term thinking. Short-term accountability. That era is ending. Not because regulation says so. Not even because sustainability has become fashionable. But because the people around festivals have changed their expectations. Participants. Communities. Partners. Investors. They are all paying closer attention to what...

I learned this the hard way, in my own journey… For quite some time, meeting today’s needs felt like enough. I spent resouces without thinking too much.I said yes too often, I postponed my health, I ignored or stretched relationships thin because I believed tomorrow would somehow absorb the consequences. Until it couldn’t. That was the moment I understood that living well today cannot come at the expense of who I become. Balance is not about limitation…is about maturity , and about taking...

When Systems Learn to Behave Like Humans: Why No-Sort Recycling Is a Leadership Moment For years, we have asked individuals to carry the weight of systems that were never designed for human behavior. Sort your waste correctly. Learn the rules. Do better.And when recycling fails, the blame quietly returns to people.Not to design. Not to infrastructure. Not to leadership choices. This is why the recent development coming from Northwestern University on no-sort plastic recycling caught my...