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Participating at the ‘engineering for sustainability development’ course, we had to start a conversation about what we think as more sustainable and unsustainable. During this ‘round of truth’, with the little duck giving the right to speak, everybody expressed different points of view about the topic. Something that was considered extremely unsustainable for one may have never been thought as an…

It's no secret that people live longer and that is one of the main reasons why sustainable development is so important. According to the United Nations projects there will be more that 10 billion people living on Earth by the year 2100. The rise of the population means that there will be more demand of supplies and energy. If the energy continues to be developed by finite fossil fuels, instead of…

The first aspects that come to our mind when it is about sustainability are the renewable sources of energy. The biomass, the wind, the sun and the waves   are some excellent examples of sustainable strategies. Their sustainability is defined by their reliance upon infinitely available resources that are naturally occurring, and thus we have constant and free access to them. These factors mean…

During Christmas holidays people tend to become a lot more careless about the environment and the way they use the products.  A lot of electricity is being wasted, much more food is being cooked and eventually thrown away and a lot of gifts are exchanged without paying any attention on their usefulness or whether they satisfy any sustainability parameter (materials, batteries, end-of-life, etc.).

Christmas holidays is considered as the best period of the year for giving gifts to our close friends and family. Many times, however, we have difficulties in finding the right present, ending up buying useless things that will probably be wasted and reach the landfill. Thus, instead of wondering and wandering around the shopping centers, there are a lot of alternative solutions to make presents…

Coming back home for holidays I spent time with my family, friends and a lot of people that are not familiar with the meaning of sustainability and what we, as students of TU Delft, know. Being in the Netherlands, a country where sustainability is widely promoted, and getting together with other students who study about the sustainable development, makes us believe that everybody would think in…

I know that we left Christmas far behind us and that the topic may seem out of the bloom at the beginning, but it is a topic that I wanted so much to write about and is closely related to my experience on Texel. Just before Christmas I watched the movie “The Grinch” and I was extremely inspired from the main character (Grinch) and the lessons for sustainability that he gives. A bit about the plot