Article
Ivo Hummelink, foto Tessa IOB.jpg Tessa Vaendel, Anne van loenen, 2014-06-01 23.22.23.jpg Noor Debets

Chapter 3.2 Description and analysis of current relevant trends and initiatives

In this section an internet-analysis of relevant sustainable trends and initiatives on Texel is made. In order to structure and categorise these trends and initiatives these are divided in five subsystems: Food, Waste, Transport, Energy and Tourism. These systems are chosen because they cover the largest and most generic subsystems on the island and these are the ones that also highly relate to the lifestyles within Texel.

wit blok.jpg

For example everyone in Texel needs food, transport and energy to live their life and everyone produces waste. Tourism is of course mostly relevant for the lifestyle group Tourist, however since the tourist industry is large on Texel this also relates to the lifestyle of the Profit/Planet-Local groups.  For each subsystem the presence of projects or platforms on Texel is analysed using websites as the main source. The findings of this analysis are given in the following table (click on the table on bottom of the page to enlarge it).

Table 3.2 - overview sustainable initiatives Texel.png

Analysing this table, it is noticed that the sub-systems with the most projects are food and energy. Presence on the internet about the sub-system tourism, transport and waste was much less. Hence it is concluded that the main trend with regard to sustainability on Texel is to focus on the (local) production and consumption of food and energy.

In the next table these initiatives are assigned to the (relations between) the different lifestyles on Texel. In this way one can see which lifestyles are more closely related regarding sustainable initiatives and which are less related. Because it is only focussed on sustainable projects and initiatives no numbers are shown in the columns of the Profit-Local and Tourist. (click on the table on bottom of the page to enlarge it)

Table 3.2 - sustainable initiatives by lifestyle on Texel.png

From the latter table one see that the main initiators of sustainable projects are the Planet-Local-Producer and the Municipality.  

Conclusion

Combining these two tables it is concluded that currently the most initiatives are conducted by the Planet-Local-Producers and the Municipality and that their focus is mainly on making the food-system and the energy-system more sustainable. This also implies that there are gaps in the sub-systems waste, transport and tourism. These gaps could become opportunities if it is aimed to pinpoint on the change levers on the subsystem lifestyle on Texel.

Media

wit blok.jpg Table 3.2 - overview sustainable initiatives Texel.png Table 3.2 - sustainable initiatives by lifestyle on Texel.png