Gezond bouwen
Ik zoek gezonde bouwmaterialen, maar het lijkt of ik een pistool zoek, of iets anders illegaals. Voor gezond bouwen moet je in het ‘circuit’ zijn. Daarbuiten is er niets te vinden. Caro Sicking voor...
Auteur: Frank van Empel en Caro Sicking
Wat de hel!
Wat de hel! speelt zich af in de nabije toekomst in een samenleving die veel weg heeft van het Nederland van 2011. Het systeem is allesbepalend voor de levensloop van individuen. Drie vrouwen verzetten...
Power for wood – TIMBER
Boxtel from the Netherlands, Stockholm, Buckinghamshire (UK), Krakow (PL), Cádiz in Spain developed a strategy, a tool model and cooperated in the EU project TIMBER: Tools for Integrated Management of BioMass Energy Resources. The...
Simple & Cheap CO2 Solution
The global climate stalemate R.D.Schuiling Kyoto, Rio de Janeiro, Bali, Copenhagen and Cancun have produced many words, but little action. The Western industrialized world and the emerging economies have opposite views and interests, and...
Steering in a world of uncertainty, complexity and chaos, part III
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...
Steering in a world of uncertainty, complexity and chaos, part II
by Frank van Empel We distinguish two different ways of steering in the direction of a goal or moving target. Transition management is a steering approach focusing on a huge system change. ‘On paper...
Steering in a world of uncertainty, complexity and chaos, part 1
By Frank van Empel Change is a process that goes on and on. It never stops. The drivers for change are countless and so are the people engaged and the interactions among these people....
Battlefields of today: Take 1 Foodfight
The first take of the battlefields of today. A deleted scene from JES! Towards a joint effort society. Was pre-published on this website
Letter to Sir Richard Branson
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...
Migrants bring joy and prosperity
May 29, 2011. Read this morning in the Economist as a wake up call for a new day: ‘If rich countries were to admit enough migrants from poor countries to expand their own labour...