Blind Eye For The Long Run
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...
Auteur: Frank van Empel en Caro Sicking
Battlefields of today: Take 2 Renewable energy production as trick & trade
The second take of the battlefields of today. A deleted scene from JES! Towards a joint effort society. Was pre-published on this website.
Power in Masdar City, Abu Dhabi
Abu Dhabi is in the news as change-agent for renewable energy and environmental industry. The largest fossil fuel producer of the Unity of Arab Emirates is climbing fast towards the top of sustainable development...
The Rise of the Networking Wilful Individual
(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...
Escape From The Make-UP World
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...
Power to the City
Not nations but cities are the powerhouses of economic life. So we have to invest in the City. Here cross the connections to the qualifications urban, politician, regionalist, progressive and innovation. By Frank van...
BEYOND OIL
The economy is decarbonising for about 25 years now, after more than 200 years of carbonising. Other tables are turning too. Call it ecolution, a development of the economy in a direction where profits...
Battlefields of Today: Take 4 The treacherous treasure of Brazil
The fourth take of the battlefields of today. A deleted scene from JES! Towards a joint effort society. Was pre-published on this website.
Denken in levenscycli, deel 1
In een economie waar de vraag naar woningen, auto’s en koelkasten het aanbod ver overtreft, nemen producenten het door de bank genomen niet zo nauw met de materiaalkeuze. Toch zou dat wel moeten. De...