Wouter de Heij
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By Chris Vermeulen – Re-Blogged From http://www.Silver-Phoenix500.com Nature functions in cycles: Each 24-hour period can be divided into smaller cycles of morning, afternoon, evening and night. The whole year can be divided into seasonal cycles. Similarly, one’s life can also be divided into cycles. Cycles are abundant in nature, we just have to spot them, […]…
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Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg spoke out today against the immigration policies of President Donald Trump. “We are a nation of immigrants, and we all benefit when the best and brightest from around the world can live, work and contribute here,” Zuckerberg said in a Facebook post. In his first days in office, President Trump signed…
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Unicorns are increasingly starting to look like regular horses, and their magic is fading. Back when there were only a handful of private companies that were valued at over $1 billion, the term certainly had meaning and value. Today, however, there are some 185 unicorns galloping around and their numbers may soon be dropping. Last…
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You may be wondering what high pressure processing means. Well, this is a pasteurization method which uses ultra-high water pressure to get rid of food borne pathogens including salmonella, E. coli, and listeria, which may be present in packaged or refrigerated foods. It does this by disrupting the cellular activity of such pathogens. The high-pressure […]…
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Food4Innovations (EN) – Wouter de Heij M.Sc. I was extremely tired when two students from Wageningen UR interview me a few years ago; but the questions and my answers are still relevant today. Of course the interview is too short and maybe sometimes a bit black and white. But now in the beginning of 2017…
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Dat een kat in het nauw vreemde sprongen maakt, las je hier gisteren ook weer. Nu moeten we het vooral niet té gek willen maken. En dus graai ik nog even in mijn archief, zoals ik beloofde. De multinationals, de aanjagers van de globalisering, zagen op vijf jaar tijd hun winsten met een kwart dalen. […]…
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Key in life is to be able to answer the question “How much is enough?” Modern society has a desire to accumulate stuff & do nothing with it [Gunter Pauli] Life is about flows not about stuff we have. Water in a tank turns bad. Water that flows gives life. Money in banks turn toxic,…
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Gunter Pauli talks about “technologies that use physics rather than chemistry”. He is right, lets give an example: fake-chicken. Last year Mark Bittman wrote in the NY “A Chicken Without Guilt”. after visiting in The Hague the Dutch company The Vegetarian Butcher. The “butcher” said to hem, “We slaughter soy”, Bittman laughed, but after tasting he concluded…
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Clean technology includes recycling, renewable energy (wind power, solar power, biomass, hydropower, biofuels), information technology, green transportation, electric motors, green chemistry, lighting, Greywater, and many other appliances that are now more energy efficient. It is a means to create electricity and fuels, with a smaller environmental footprint and minimise pollution. We think that in de…
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The Blue Economy: 10 years – 100 innovations – 100 million jobs is a book by Gunter Pauli. The book expresses the ultimate aim that a Blue Economy business model will shift society from scarcity to abundance “with what we have”, by tackling issues that cause environmental and related problems in new ways. The book…
