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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…
