Ecolutie - Be the change
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....
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...
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...
The building by Thomas Pijnenborgh & friends of two sustainable earth lodges from scratch, autumn 2008. The slideshow on Ecolutie
Conventional banks are outdated.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...
In de dialectiek van Hegel hebben links en rechts een eigen rol. Links laat zich echter willoos meezuigen in de maalstroom naar rechts. Met als gevolg dat de geschiedenis op hol slaat en de...
Everybody is talking about renewables. It is a sexy topic. Driving on solar, living on wind. If you like illusionism, stop reading immediately. By Frank van Empel This is not about illusions but about...
Meltdown. The word revives memories of Jane Fonda, back in 1979, the year of the Second Oil-crisis. Nuclear power seems to be one of the most promising energy alternatives to oil. An alternative with...
Anders Kijken is in december 2005 verschenen als inspiratie document voor een werkatelier dat de Provincie Noord Brabant en InnovatieNetwerk Groene Ruimte en Agrocluster organiseerden. Het essay, geschreven door Frank van Empel, is bedoeld...
Some people just don’t get it: sus-tai-na-ble de-ve-lop-ment. ‘Nonsense! No development can go on forever,’ they say. ‘There is a limit to the carrying capacity of the Earth. World population and the economy have...