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Doing the dishes Yesterday, our dishwasher refused to fulfil his main task: cleaning the dishes. It forced me (and my roommates), to do the dishes by hand. Although it can be an entertaining activity to wash the dishes while singing along with Pitbull (babababababababy I'm on fire), we rather have a functioning dishwasher.   Several possibilities arise to handle this issue. The easiest option is…

Black Pete? Green Pete!   It is only a couple days until it is the 5th of December, which is in the Netherlands traditionally called "pakjesavond". Sinterklaas arrived a few weeks ago in his steam ship together with his servants, also known as Black Petes. As you have probably noticed, there is an ongoing discussion about the skin colour of "Black" Pete. The documentary "Zwart als roet" (meaning:…

MEETING ONE - NOV 12. 2014 Texel sustainable island Tatiana Armijos Moya, Pinal Desai, Truke Zeinstra   The first meeting of Engineering for a Sustainable Development was held on Wednesday, November 12 th from 13:45 to 17:30 on TPM building, room C. During the introduction we met our course coordinators Bertien Broekhans (course manager), Eefje Cuppen, Caroline Nevejan, Lucas Florez Atehortua and…

Column 3 - Gaining consciousness about global climate change There are several methods to address the issue of global climate changes. There are many parties that are concerned about the environment, and which draw measures to transfer knowledge to individuals about the climate changes. However, each party has its own way of working and a corresponding way of creating awareness. In the following…