It is argued that in our world there are many "pessimists", who do not believe that climate, environmental and natural disasters can still be averted, and therefore want to live today as if there was no tomorrow. And if you have nothing more to expect, why should you also let the pleasures of today be …

Green energy is just one of the two types of energy humanity needs, the energy for our man-made world, including cities, road networks, industries and technological systems (energy for the systems that drive out the ecology). However, a second type of energy is needed to meet our biological needs, energy …

Even journalists and academics sometimes employ dichotomies that fall short almost immediately. An example is the prophets and wizards dichotomy. Populism with a scientific twist, which apparently makes sense and appeals to our gut feeling. A golden formula, with an implicit logical appeal to dialectics, …

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Als je het maatschappelijke debat over bedrijventerreinen volgt, vraag je je soms af of deze gebieden überhaupt een bredere waarde hebben. Bedrijventerreinen worden verbonden met typeringen als verdozing en hebben het uiterlijk van blokkendozen. Ze komen over als anonieme en verweesde landschappen. Het …

A tenet of behavioural change that almost every academic adheres to, is to do not name the bad behaviour but indicate how to perform the good behaviour. Three quartersto the left is one quarter to the right. However, being allowed to give instructions only in left (or, conversely, only in right) often …

It is argued that a world can exist in which man is not a plague, in which we do not take away all diversity with cheap copy-paste mass production to worship a system world that makes everything uniform everywhere and in which we wrongly believe that we are working to establish heaven on earth. Optimists …

Lector Lizette Oudhuis vertelt in haar column over hoe in het Westen een obesogene samenleving ontstaat: een omgeving waar we omringd worden door voedselproducten, maar weinig voeding. Hoe lossen we het gebrek aan gezonde voedingsstoffen op?