Ecolutie - Be the change
Allemaal Winnen Duurzame ontwikkeling is alles behalve een eenduidig begrip. Dat leidt tot verwarring en inertie. Theoretische verdieping en onderzoek naar de praktijk van duurzame ontwikkeling, brengen Martin Bakker en Frank van Empel tot...
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...
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...
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...
Conventional banks are outdated.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...
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...
(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...
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...
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...
Het idealisme van de Verlichting, tot uiting komend in de grote verhalen (metarécrits) is ten einde. Althans, volgens Jean-François Lyotard. Dat geldt volgens de Fransman met name voor het Marxisme, dat de vooruitgang, de...