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How to distribute the remaining Carbon budget ?

10 oktober 2020admin
carbon-paper-buildings-and-cities

A few years ago, together with colleagues Guillaume Habert from Switzerland and Thomas Lützkendorf from Germany, I started exploring the CO2 budget that was still available, and the consequences for construction. This budget of maximum remaining CO2 emissions to stay… Continue Reading →

building, CO2, housing stock, policies, politics, population, society

The Netherlands as cooperation, owned by its inhabitants?

24 maart 2019admin
nederland-uit-de-lucht-aereal-2

Its a difficult thing, the much wanted energy transition. Last week the daily news broadcast showed an interesting example of that. The provinces have to build wind turbines and search for acceptable locations, but the residents around are revolting. Complaining… Continue Reading →

commons, economy, politics, population, society, transition

Cuba, a blueprint for the future ? 1/2

22 september 2017admin
cuba-biocapacity

Cuba has fascinated me since my youth. Of course, in the sixties and seventies as collective resistance against capitalism and imperialism. On one side I was attracted to the ideas behind the revolutions, on the other side I was a… Continue Reading →

assessment, building, commons, future, island, population, resources, sustainable

increasing life expectation: decreasing environmental performance …

12 september 2017admin
The crib

A lot has been said and published about the energy and material impact of houses. What usually stays out of sight is the inhabitant. And I do not mean his behavior, but his ‘being’ , his need over the years… Continue Reading →

assessment, population, sustainable

Planet(Resources) & people : the R/P balance

2 september 2017admin
r-p-2

When I was born, there were only 2.75 billion people around… Nowadays there are 7,2 billion. Imagine, it tripled over the course of my life, no wonder it seems a bit crowded now and then. And if I will become… Continue Reading →

Embodied Land, population, resources

A Smart City has a emergency plan…

2 april 2017admin
img_1851-barcelona

I love to be in cities. The bustling life, the choice in restaurants, the observing of people from a terrace with a special beer in front of me… I mean, I discovered that the cities most lovely attractions are mobile… Continue Reading →

blog, future, population, resources, smartcities, society, urban

Labor, a lost renewable energy source

7 februari 2017admin
rietdak

Labor , as used to make physical changes, seems to disappear completely as a production factor. While about 150 years ago the labor power, ‘LP’ , was the major force in society, besides the Horsepower, the HP. Maybe even you… Continue Reading →

0-energy, climate, energy, labor, population

Not people, but resources: Brundtland 2.0

27 november 2016admin
ourcommomfuture

Maybe its understandable, but in fact a kind of ‘national narcism’: Solving the climate change problem, while maintaining all modern comfort and luxury, gained over the past 150 years by depleting an plundering resources globally.: to heat a whole house… Continue Reading →

blog, circular, population, resources, sustainable

from factor 20 reduction to factor 20 more impact…

7 oktober 2016admin
738102-population-growth

I just read a book, that made me aware again, of one of the drivers of increased consumption, and therefore of resource depletion: ‘Count down’, by Alan Weisman. And the Topic? Population growth, or: Overpopulation. The topic was first put… Continue Reading →

future, population, resources, sustainable

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