A week in Paris has opened my eyes on how inevitable the autonomous driving future really is. I live in the South of Holland and try to live a Practice What You Preach live because I am very concerned by the prospect of what our continued Western lifestyle will mean for the future of planet …
Category Archives: Sustainability
The Climate Lawsuit : Who should make decisions regarding our climate?
The Netherlands has seen a unique lawsuit recently: “Urgenda, a non-profit organisation with an Urgent Climate Change Agenda as it’s core business, sued the Dutch state. It asked the judge to force the Government to deliver on the promises it made to the voters: reduce CO2 emissions by 30% by 2025 compared to the baseline …
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An inconvenient truth about solar panels?
Yesterday I came across this article, pointing to the ugly downside of solar energy: to create the panels you apparently need * to burn coal to create electricity to make silicon. * use chemicals to clean the panels that are 24.000 times more heat capturing than CO2 * toxic metals like Cadmium to change the …
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An energy source for the industry ? : Lifter Plants – Thorium
Households will have no issue whatsoever to decarbonize. Their rooftops will catch all the energy they need from Fusion reactor number 1, and community windmills will fill in the gaps when the sun is down. Our Tesla batteries store energy for half a neighborhood and in case we want to go all the way in …
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The 5 R’s of sustainability
People, Planet, Profit, you know the drill on sustainability. Along with the 3 R’s : Reduce, Reuse and Recycly they form the most important acronyms to get started in the field of sustainability. But it’s a tough world out there, and it’s really difficult to run a sustainable enterprise in a “warehouse on wheels portion …
On Stakeholder Engagement: do it or they will do it to you
MOOC’ing my way to a new job in “Sustainability”, and learning lots of interesting stuff. This week had “Stakeholder Engagement” on the menu. We learned about standards for doing this (AA1000ses), reasons to do it and ways on reporting on the interactions with stakeholders and the showing the results. All rather dry and theoretical but …
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MOOC @ Bath : Sustainability for Professionals : Week 3 reflection
This week : Reporting standards Good to go through some of these standards. Until recently I was mainly on the “environmental” side of sustainability, but I have learned to appreciate the social aspect of sustainability. One thing that keeps coming to my mind, and that is something I hope will come back later in the …
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Sustainability framework : Notes #1
I’m reinventing myself. Want to become a “sustainability expert” so I’m MOOC’ing, reading Malthus, Club of Rome, UN millennium Goals and engaging in discussions with friends on what “Sustainability” actually means. So many people and organizations are busy with the term that it seems to be trodden flat. What I want to do on my …
MOOC Refelctions : Climate Change, Exeter, week 1
How cool is that! My First ever MOOC, and the first thing they tell me is that I have to write blogs and tweet about them! I love to write blogs! ha! So here we go, my first reflections on “climate-change-challenges-and-solutions” What is the difference between weather change and climate change? Weather, in my part …
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World Energy Outlook 2013 – What it doesn’t say
Today the International Energy Agency delivered its World Energy Outlook, edition 2013 . One picture says more than a thousand words, they must have been thinking, because we get loads of Powerpoint sheets and pictures. All this work just to report that it’s business as usual, although there are some issues requiring our attention. The …
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