Categorie: innovation

Environment and climate checklist for journalists

blind spots in the environmental and climate approach/sustainability When listening to an interview, I regularly think: dive deeper, keep asking….! The same in the newspaper. Like recently: the newspaper offered space to a philosopher, who was allowed to go wild with his climate and environmental solutions. The editors didn’t realize…

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Double dilemma? discussions as Fellow

In recent years I was a Fellow of the Technical University of Eindhoven, more precisely working with the Building Physics department, in particular with Prof. Wim Zeiler, Installation Technology. And we had interesting discussions, because we strive for the same thing, while we come from different backgrounds. Those discussions can…

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Jaime Lerner – Curitiba

Just recently, in May, Jaime Lerner passed away. He more or less invented sustainable urban development. A little tribute. Everything has to be sustainable or circular these days, including the cities. Now, is there a city that has already applied many of these principles, where there is something to learn?…

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On books: Tip 1: don’t buy Bill Gates’ book.

We are bombarded with books that know how to deal with climate and the environment, and especially how we can improve the situation. And yes, I am also participating in that, since last week I published a new book that offers tools for improvement, or rather: suggestions for adaptations to…

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2020-2040: What goes up, must come down…

Last year I wrote about a publication from 20 years ago, in which prominent figures looked 20 years ahead. [1] The result was not that good, the future is always more different as expected. However, a number of reactions wondered what that would be like in 20 years from now,…

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Time for claiming penalty payments by the government

If the government does not protect the citizen, but its decisions are influenced by a few rebellious farmers, some flying fanatics, some screaming builders, and exporting parasites, then it’s time for action. After all, we have appointed civil servants and parliament to serve the citizen’s interests. Not business, in the…

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Transition: charging points madness

Amsterdam needs around 50,000 charging points for electric cars. 50,000? Really? Have we gone completely nuts or what? Doesn’t alarm bells start ringing: “What the hell are we doing?” Where do all these raw materials come from, and the energy to supply those charging stations? The electricity grid has already…

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

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 with coal and oil: which was understandable, there was much…

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the energy ‘Jouliette’ : Swapping real value with blockchain

Recently I wrote about the Bitcoin, and other crypto currencies, as being the clothes of the emperor. They represent “ NOTHING”. Have no other value as ‘faith’. Which will become problematic, when it turns out there is no ‘heaven’. No virgins at the end of the rainbow. But its the…

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Technology : from fuel-tech to human-tech, and to Bionology…?

Policies, (financial-) economy , technology, religion, and even science to some level, are all human thought up constructs, that are not grounded in physical reality, but in human perception of life and how to live it. There is no natural law that has to be followed, they all can be…

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