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20-40 years later…

27 juli 2019admin
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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… Continue Reading →

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“The living temperature should be lowered”… Energy Policy from 1974

12 januari 2019admin
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A little bit of history this time, especially about the Dutch Energy Strategy of 1974. In the period leading  to that bill, we had two moments in history where we had taken the wrong turn . In the 19th century… Continue Reading →

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NEW BOOK:
PEOPLE vs RESOURCES - restoring a world out of balance.

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Only when current energy-money-food institutions go from “ too big to fail” to “ too big to save”, will we have collapse and change …

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Speaker, writer , thinker, co-Founder iiSBE , consultant, researcher : main focus: Zero impact built environments The Netherlands
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RONALD ROVERS:
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chair and organiser 1 st World conference Sustainable Building (SB2000, Maastricht)
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co-founder iiSBE, International NGO: int.initiative for Sustainable Built environment
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honorary member of the Chinese academy for Science and Technology, Wuxi, PRChina
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guest lecturing, in several Europen universities
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Book: Sustainable Housing, a conceptual approach , R.Rovers 2006 ISBN: 978-90-8594-020-3

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