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When we talk about sustainability, we are basically talking about protecting the natural environment, because of the harm that our industrial society has been doing for the last 200 years. After the industrial revolution, people started thinking that they could take resources from Nature without any limit. We also started thinking that all the highly toxic wastes produced by machines and systems…

A big part of the food that we eat every day has travelled hundreds or thousands of kilometers, before getting in the supermarket from which we bought it. This can be defined quite unsustainable, if we consider the possibilities of growing food locally. For example, the transport of food in U.S. accounts for 25% of the total energy use related to the food industry.[1] Even though transport has an…

Many people are already recycling materials like plastic, glass, paper etc., but not many are recycling food. Food scraps account for a big part of the landfilled waste and therefore it accounts also for a big part of co2 emissions. In U.S. for example, scrap food accounts for 20 % of greenhouse gasses emissions. By starting composting you would save a big part of waste food to be landfilled or…

In the midterm presentation for our sub-systems, some weeks ago, it was clear that the Texel way of dealing with water can actually be improved. What emerged is that a good way is to shift the trend from “using clean water coming from the mainland and wasting the output grey water” to “using the clean water and reusing most of the output water”. As a matter of fact, this is a problem that is…

Being in Texel has been a very nice experience, during which we had the opportunity not only to learn from our fellow students and professors, but also from the Texel people. Personally, I was impressed by the meetings we had with the local people from the island. People of different ages came to see the presentations of our ideas for the sustainable transition of Texel. In the first meeting