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Dutch government: deaf, dumb, blind and impotent

Geschreven op 20 Nov, 2011 om 15:02 in Anders denken, new | bekeken 510 keer | 1 Reactie

video Niet zonder ons More on this: nonfiXe ‘The biggest threat to humanity, is not the evil of the bad persons. It is the passivity of the good ones!’ Martin Luther King by Frank van Empel Nationalism is always just one step... (Lees verder)

Steering in a world of uncertainty, complexity and chaos, part III

Geschreven op 5 Aug, 2011 om 9:07 in Anders denken, new | bekeken 560 keer | 1 Reactie

by Frank van Empel What also works is the way Europe decides. A revolution in disguise. The EU is more than a federation of nation states or a steering system of regions, it is a grass root movement where development from... (Lees verder)

Letter to Sir Richard Branson

Geschreven op 1 Jul, 2011 om 15:06 in Anders denken, new | bekeken 591 keer | 2 Reacties

Sir Richard, A farmer from Kentucky, Wendell Berry, wrote in Standing by Words (1983) about a system of nested systems – the individual human within the family within the community, et cetera. Berry: ‘If at any point the hierarchy is... (Lees verder)

The essence of banking

Geschreven op 8 Apr, 2011 om 14:12 in Anders denken, new | bekeken 618 keer | 0 Reacties

Conventional banks are outdated. They don’t deliver what they were created for: trust and cheap money to make the world a better place to live in. They failed. So let’s skip the banks and replace them by ‘common units’ that... (Lees verder)

No more refugees

Geschreven op 25 Feb, 2011 om 10:37 in Anders denken, new | bekeken 808 keer | 2 Reacties

Killing two birds with one stone: environmental solutions can bring peace, health and prosperity to all. By Caro Sicking Newspapers from all over the globe report on the prediction of 50 million environmental refugees flooding the world by 2020, which... (Lees verder)

The challenge is now

Geschreven op 5 Feb, 2011 om 3:01 in Anders denken, new | bekeken 898 keer | 6 Reacties

Why build a new energy infrastructure by investing in coal-fired power plants instead of in renewables? By Caro Sicking Return on investment of fossil fuel power is a blockade for renewable energy generation. Once states (i.e. taxpayers) and energy companies... (Lees verder)

Blind Eye For The Long Run

Geschreven op 4 Feb, 2011 om 14:00 in Anders denken, new | bekeken 857 keer | 2 Reacties

Politicians and businessmen have one handicap in common. They both are focused on the short term. They may have reason for that, but by short track thinking nothing is going to change. By Frank van Empel First the politician’s handicap;... (Lees verder)

Renewable energy production as trick & trade

Geschreven op 3 Feb, 2011 om 2:49 in Anders denken, new | bekeken 1,193 keer | 1 Reactie

Emission trade frustrates energy transition by giving the wrong incentives. It is better to build new infrastructures for solar and wind power that will last and from which the globe benefits. And, keep it on scale. Big is not Beautiful... (Lees verder)

The Rise of the Networking Wilful Individual

Geschreven op 19 Jan, 2011 om 9:44 in Anders denken, new | bekeken 1,182 keer | 3 Reacties

(Escape From The Make-UP World II) The first part of this story was focused on experts, governors, managers and politicians as powers that want to control the lives of wilful individuals, but have to fight against a rather new phenomenon:... (Lees verder)

Escape From The Make-UP World

Geschreven op 14 Jan, 2011 om 13:59 in Anders denken, new | bekeken 906 keer | 2 Reacties

Why expectations almost never come true, why things work out in chaotic ways, and who’s to blame. By Frank van Empel Bluntly stated, more recapitulating than arguing, because it seems so clear in it self: management, marketing and manipulating have... (Lees verder)