Category: English
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Brexit, a scene from the Anthropocene
Slightly over two months ago, the ‘Brexit’ vote took place, leaving a lot of us in horror, lethargy, or at least confusion. If our confusion has receded as time has gone by, it is because we have become used to this new reality, not because it started making sense. Does it bring clarification when we…
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Community currencies on the rise – A preview
“The developed world is unable to respond to the present challenges largely because the money system, designed to nurture the industrial revolution, necessitates economic growth and rewards short-term profit taking over long term asset management. We need to start valuing things which money doesn’t value – from Indonesian swamps to unemployed labourers to the dignity…
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Article out now in Global Change Biology: Bioenergy
After some (many) months of exercising patience, the results of my graduation research at Wageningen University (Department of Soil Quality) have been printed and published online in Global Change Biology’s ‘child’ journal Bioenergy. My co-workers and I also were lucky to have our paper’s title and photo printed on the issue’s cover. The article discusses…
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Resilience: the philosophy of socio-ecological leeway
Environmental sciences are great fun for those who like to connect everything with everything else, and then cast their doubts on all these relations. But it also involves very urgent and earnest matter. For a university course, I wrote a 13p essay on agricultural paradigms and practices, which addresses how agriculture has been approached by…