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Continue partying, or (CO2) lockdown ?

14 april 2022admin
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There are actually only two options (‘scenario’s’): Either we go into CO2 lockdown, or we party on until the whole thing collapses…. The latest IPCC report makes that perfectly clear again. What we are doing now is a case of… Continue Reading →

behaviour, climate, CO2, consuming, economy, future, IPCC, lifestyle, news, policies, society, transition

the creating-debtors-theory of money…

21 december 2021admin
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Time for yet another ‘episode’ in my series on ‘money’. I am trying to ‘understand’ things, that’s how this episode regarding money should be read. A rediscovered old research sheds some light in the darkness. Virtually everything today is expressed… Continue Reading →

capital, economy, history, money, policies, value

Golf – the decadence in our use of space

5 december 2021admin
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For a new book, I explore the space-time relationship of many human activities, as a measure of our system impact, and to see if there are alternatives that can do with less. Space time in the sense that the conversion… Continue Reading →

Embodied Land, future, land, landuse, policies, society, sports

Dutch Future: Dryland and Boatland

22 november 2021admin
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It’s about time to face the hard truth here in the Netherlands: building below sea level isn’t handy, to say the least, to say modestly it’s destroying capital, and to say it hard: it’s endangering people. The soil is sinking,… Continue Reading →

future, housing stock, policies, smartcities

Jaime Lerner – Curitiba

20 augustus 2021admin
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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… Continue Reading →

architects, history, innovation, people, policies, politics, smartcities, society, urban

Energy poverty ? No, energy luxuriance

26 juni 2021admin
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I recently was triggered a few times by the term: ‘Energy Poverty’ in all kinds of reports and tweets [1-4] . Usually referred to as having little access to oil, gas and coal, in what is then called the poorer… Continue Reading →

behaviour, biomass, comfort, energy, future, labor, land, lifestyle, policies, society

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

19 april 2021admin
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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… Continue Reading →

behaviour, blog, commons, housing stock, lifestyle, policies, politics, population, society

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

4 april 2021admin
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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… Continue Reading →

architects, architecture, book, future, innovation, policies, politics, society

Forgot 1 SDG (11) : Calamity proof cities

21 maart 2021admin
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Last time, I even forgot one goal: Sustainable development Goal 11, Sustainable cities. Again, the question: what is sustainable? So much has been brought together under that heading, all nice things for people, that it does not really help us… Continue Reading →

assessment, future, policies, smartcities, urban

The UN SDG’s adapted for rich countries…

7 maart 2021admin
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In recent years we have seen the Sustainable development goals of the UN appear more and more often as a stepping stone for all kinds of initiatives. [1] And that, however well-intentioned, is not always a good thing. I wrote… Continue Reading →

climate, future, policies, society, sustainable, transition

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Form Follows Fysics - reinventing the built environment (2021)
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