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...
Ecolutie Be the change
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...
I can hear the Green grow
Double tongue speaking nations that debate coal use and pollution, export the former black gold to feed China’s need. by Frank van Empel In 1965 the Netherlands still had 40.000 workers in the...
De kosten van immigratie
De kosten van immigratie worden opbrengsten als we vluchtelingen toestaan om te werken en zich te ontwikkelen in plaats van hen in gedwongen ledigheid weg te stoppen in ver afgelegen AZC’s of erger nog, in gevangenissen. Bovendien hebben we arbeidskrachten nodig.
‘Ideas finish the Age of Oil’
We are systematically decarbonising our energy system for 25 years or more now. The Age of Oil comes to a natural end during the next decades. Coal already peaked in the 1920s. Low Carbon...
Leve de chaos !!!
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...
The making of a kitchen garden
Piles of wood are stored in a sunny part of the wild garden, close to the apple tree. ‘We can use the timber to build a doghouse’, muses one of the boys. ‘We can grow vegetables and herbs,’ says the fifteen-year old girl. They are five. The holidays just started. Sun is shining and they feel confident.
Haves & have nots
Wereldbeeld 2030: Haves & have nots In dit toekomstscenario is sprake van hoogwaardige technologische ontwikkelingen en geopolitieke stabiliteit. Het is in 2003 geschreven in Beleef 2030, opdracht van Essent. Twee werelden Hun lippen zweven...