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Pay the Fish ( No, not the fishmonger, the fish)

We just fish the fish from the sea, without any consideration. The fish is not asked anything. And they are not paid for. We haven’t even sown those fish. So, at a fish stand, they are earning money with something they have taken from the sea for free, from a…

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bullshit products (update)

This summer I started decribing some bullshit Products, mainly on Linkedin.It was a great success, it got a lot of attention.The idea originated from readig the book Bullshit Jobs: I relised that whatever job,  you can still but bullshit products…. Here is an update of those Bullshit products, previously describe…

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no end of life… (/2)

a short addition to the previous article: Just this week during our annnex72 meeting we had a discussion on biogenic carbon. And the topic of  ‘end of life calculating’ was at the table again. In relation to the carbon situation in 50 or 100 years or so.  And its still…

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Corona, the built environment, & The Species vs the Individual

The Species vs the Individual, in the Built Environment? The Corona lockdown and approach continues to surprise: both in what the government does and how people deal with it. What is particularly striking in this phase of Corona is the response and attitude to some problems with vaccines. There are…

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Throwing money around….

I can’t resist putting some thoughts about ‘money’ on paper again. I am not an expert in this field, but is anybody really? Like many others, I follow the discussions about throwing money around during and after corona. And of course, the pressure to combine the billions of Euro’s now…

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Annex added concerning Graz declaration

The article on the Graz declaration, made me think about the consequences, and I wrote a extension, which is added to the same page as  annex. (scroll down) http://www.ronaldrovers.com/the-graz-declaration-a-amendment-proposal/  

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Corona brings us “Back to normal’… ?

( a short version has been published on Linkedin) . Whats happening now, with the corona crises, shows how the world / human beings have become vulnerable to disruptions of “business as usual’ , or better: current ‘life as usual’ . Only think of global connections when suddenly all countries…

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2019-2020…Happy New Year !

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A New Year, New chances…: ‘Homo Vermis’

It is now exactly 10 years ago around Christmas that I struggled with the interpretation of ‘cycles’. Why I wondered, is everyone convinced there are two resource cycles, as promoted nowadays in whats called the circular economy? And why would we treat these differently? And at some moment around New…

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20-40 years later…

There were boxes full of books and reports, even up to 40 years old. And since it was too hot to do anything outside, I finally cleared the attic. Going through the boxes one by one, its hard to avoid starting reading again. Just throwing away things would be a…

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