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I’m not a participant of this project because I like ‘sustainability’ that much, actually I find the term kind of annoying. I’m also not a participant because I love Texel, actually I have never been there before.  I’m also not a participant because I love nature, actually I prefer a vibrant city.  I’m a participant because I will become an engineer next year and will hopefully (re)create a lot…

I did this simple online test to calculate my ecological footprint. The outcome was a 2.2, which means that if everybody has my lifestyle we would need 2.2 worlds. Compared to the average citizen of the United States (they score 5) my score isn’t that bad, but still we wouldn’t all fit on this planet. I already avoid the two most polluting activities: eating meat and driving a car. To get my…

The electric car is gaining increased attention the last couple of years. For example: the Toyota Prius (hybrid car) can frequently be seen on the road and Tesla is fading away the bland and boring image of electric cars with its fancy designs. How new and innovative the idea of an electric car may seem, the truth differs. The first electric car was created in 1835. Fifty years later, when the…

On Texel the average person produces 700 kilograms of waste each year. That is ten times the weight of a person, or 70 times a wastebag of 60 liters. Only half of it will be recycled. But the average doesn’t say much about the individual; the picture above shows the waste produced by Bea Johnson and her family in the past year. The jar includes the cover of an expired passport (the pages were…

  Food is for everyone in the world important: it is our primary need. The safety of the food is key, as is the quantity of the harvest in order to feed all mouths. The world population is growing and in combination with increasing failures of harvests (due to floods and droughts) a future food crisis is not an unrealistic scenario. Grain that is resistant to drought, rice that can survive floods

Citizens of the Netherlands didn’t make much progress in their sustainability behaviour the past years. Besides, they think it is the responsibility of the government and companies to make our country greener. That is the conclusion of two researches that are presented on the Dag van de Duurzaamheid (the researches can be found here: www.ncdo.nl/formulier and here:  nieuws.asnbank.nl) The…

Last Christmas we played a game with the family: everyone had to bring small presents which where randomly divided to the new owner using a dice game. Due to the low budget and the lack of wish lists, people bought the silliest things (varying from cheap picture frames to gift packs of men deodorant). The level of (useless) ‘consumoring’ was high. The presents you receive were either useless…