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Water, Energy & Life

Our planet consists for more than 70% out of Water. We consist for more than 70% out of Water. That Water is so much more than just “H2O” is made clear by the unique scientific research work done by Professor Gerald H. Pollack at the University of Washington in Seattle. Look at the YouTube video –…

30Dec

Read more about Toyota Kata

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Mike Rother, Author of Toyota Kata and co-author of Learning to See, USA present his speech “Toyota Kata: Mobilizing Our Ingenuity Through Good Management” at the Lean Summit 2012 ran by the Lean Enterprise Academy Visit www.leanuk.org for further videos.

30Dec

Learn more about Backcasting

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Backcasting start with defining the future and then works backwards to identify policies and programs that will connect that imagined vision of success to the present. It literally starts with the end in mind, moving backwards from the vision to the present, and then moving back step by step towards that vision. The fundamental question…

30Dec

More about Biomimicry

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Biomimicry or biomimetics is the imitation of the models, systems, and elements of nature for the purpose of solving complex human problems. Biomimicry (from bios, meaning life, and mimesis, meaning to imitate) is a new discipline that studies nature’s best ideas and then imitates these designs and processes to solve human problems. Studying a leaf to invent a better…

De Toekomst van Energiezuinig bouwen 15Dec

De Toekomst van Energiezuinig bouwen

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Een presentatie van Frans Versteeg over de energieneutrale gebouwde omgeving…

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Backcasting: the natural step 19Dec

Backcasting: the natural step

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A short presentation on backcasting and other basic concepts of ‘The Natural Step’.

20Dec

eating animals

“If nothing matters, there’s nothing to save” 
Jonathan Safran Foer…A great read! Let yourself be informed about factory farming..

The quote is from a conversation with the author’s Grandmother, how she survived the war..

“The worst it got near the end. A lot of people died right at the end, and I didn’t know if I could make it another day. A farmer, a Russian, God bless him, he saw my condition, and he went into his house and came out with a piece a meat of for me.”
“He saved your life.”
“I didn’t eat it.”
“You didn’t eat it?”
“It was pork. I wouldn’t eat pork.”
“Why?”
“What do you mean why?”
“What, because it wasn’t kosher?”
“Of course.”
“But not even to save your life?”
“If nothing matters, there’s nothing to save.”