Ecolutie - Be the change
@nonfixe and @ecolutie we have been busy writing: JES! Towards a Joint Effort Society, a General Theory on Development (& Ecolution Method) The follow-up of Only Winners (Erasmus University) looks for patterns in current...
Frank van Empel What goes up, must come down, and what goes down has to come up some day (or fades away). These are the laws of the market. In the long run most...
Why fundamental changes almost always take a lot of time or in the end don’t happen at all? Even a revolution usually starts quietly, with simple observations and controversial ideas. The technologies and institutions...
Waarom duurt het altijd lang voordat problemen daadwerkelijk opgelost worden, ook al zijn de technieken, technologieën en instituties om de betreffende vraagstukken en problemen op te lossen beschikbaar. De mate van urgentie is hier...
Economists, especially the champions in mathematics among them, tend to linear thinking, for the simple reason that nonlinear thinking is too complex to handle in a model and leads highbrow theoreticians in the direction...
Sustainable development is not about evolution, competition and the survival of the fittest; it’s about ecolution, working together and the fitness of us, the survivors. By Frank van Empel Over a hundred years ago...
Eenheid laat zich niet forceren, maar komt spontaan tot stand door het delen van verhalen, beelden en contacten. Iemands’ profiel omvat veel meer dan alleen het item geloof. Iemand kan moslim of katholiek zijn....
Profound societal changes that will stimulate new ways of thinking, decision-making and doing are taking place. These will have severe consequences for the solution of complex problems like climate change and to find the...
Like animals and plants, people are made to grow. Running backwards is hard to do. Growing backwards is impossible. So we keep on going (growing) on and try to live the good life, until...
De huidige malaise op financieel-economisch, ecologisch en sociaal terrein vraagt om een andere manier van inrichten van de samenleving. Promovendi Martin Bakker en Frank van Empel hebben zo’n soort manier beschreven in de thesis...