Created by Klara Bergman

After watching the documentary “Mission blue” just minutes after I had sushi for dinner one day, I really had to start questioning my choices. The documentary follows Sylvia Earle through her life as a marine biologist, exploring our vast oceans. The change she has seen in the quality of the oceans just under her lifetime is scary. Coral reefs are dying, waste is collecting, oil spills are more…

Listening to the lecture by Roel van Raak about waste management this week, I started to think about my own experiences of waste management. Growing up in a small town in northern Sweden, I was taught to sort my waste. In our house we hade a compost and our plastic, paper, cardboard, metal and glass waste were put in different containers at the local recycle plant every weekend. The most fun…

A couple of days ago a friend shared an article on facebook that caught my eye. The article is written by a girl in NYC who lives a so-called “zero-waste life”. She produces no trash. This is a picture of her trash bin . Pretty unbelievable. The girl, Lauren Singer, started living this way a couple of years ago when she was an Environmental Studies major in college. She felt that she was a…

“[…] every saint and sinner in the history of our species lived there – on a mote of dust suspended in a sunbeam.” Someone I knew once showed me Carl Sagan speaking about the Pale Blue Dot . I can’t remember the context or why he showed it to me, but I remember that the movie made me feel so calm. So accepting. Whatever nonsensical problems I was going over in my head, or whatever I thought was…

My phone is getting old. I’ve had it for exactly two and a half years and it is already considered old . Maybe even stone age to some people. Sometimes the alarm function won’t work (getting to school on time every day is a blessing) and the touch-function just crashes sometimes. Now, why is this? Is it made to break down after a certain amount of time? Obviously I’m not a technology-crazed…

The title above is something Rush Limbaugh said during his radio show “The Rush Limbaugh Show”  in the US. Paraphrasing, he said that since we humans exhale CO 2  it can't possibly be poisonous or bad for us. Now, I don’t know anything about Rush Limbaugh. He’s probably clever and friendly. However, claiming that CO 2 can’t be bad or poisonous since we exhale is kind of a silly statement.

We're finally here! On Texel! I remember when I applied for this course in early September, and read that the course included a field trip of one week. I was so happy to take a course where we were doing something else than listening to lectures in collegezaal F in the civil engineering faculty for eight weeks to then write an exam. I love the idea of working with a project and actually going to…