Battlefields of Today: Take 5 No more refugees
The fifth take of the Battlefields of Today: Environmental Refugees. A deleted scene from JES! Towards a Joint Effort Society.
Ecolutie Be the change
Anders kijken – essay over nieuwe dorpen
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...
Enter the future, cowboy!
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...
Battlefields of today: take 3 The challenge is now
The fourth take of the battlefields of today. A deleted scene from JES! Towards a joint effort society. Was pre-published on this website.
Blind Eye For The Long Run
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...
Battlefields of today: Take 2 Renewable energy production as trick & trade
The second take of the battlefields of today. A deleted scene from JES! Towards a joint effort society. Was pre-published on this website.
Power in Masdar City, Abu Dhabi
Abu Dhabi is in the news as change-agent for renewable energy and environmental industry. The largest fossil fuel producer of the Unity of Arab Emirates is climbing fast towards the top of sustainable development...
The Rise of the Networking Wilful Individual
(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...
Escape From The Make-UP World
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...
