Interviews 'sustain lifestyles'

Who       Wim Ploeg jr., president of keeping company Snelstart Why      Mr. Ploeg has a, for Texels concepts, big company with 100 men in service. Despite of many clients situated everywhere in The Netherlands, the company is still located at Texel. As a born and raised Texelaar mr. Ploeg still lives on Texel [1] and has a strong connection with the island. What     The aim of the interview is…

Who        Nienke Bloksma lives on Texel since 1987, she was not born on Texel. From 2000 till 2010 she was in charge of Stichting Duurzaam Texel (SDT). In 2000 she was the first only employee at SDT, later she became director and was responsible for a broad range of tasks. Currently she is following a program on the energy-neutral renovation of houses. Her motivation for sustainability already…

Who      Ir. Wouter de Waal, director of the VVV Texel Why        Mr. de Waal can be seen as a representative of the Texels leisure industry and has much knowledge about local tourism and therefore proberly about the lifestyles of tourists What       The aim of the interview is to verify the assumptions made in the YUPTA model, to explore possibilities to reach the goal of a self-sufficient Texel…

Who Koen van Swam works for the Stichting Noordzeeboerderij (Organization Northsea farm), which was founded in 2012. In 2014 he got involved, when they redefined their project goal to focus on sustainable seaweed farming. Their goal became to show other organizations that seaweed farming was definitely possible in the open sea. They started with the first tests (the kiloproef ) in a location ten…