The 8 billionth citizen of the world will probably be born within a few months. Never before have we been on the planet with so many people at once. Of the 110 billion people who have lived since the dawn of humanity, 8/110 = 7.3% are present at the same time. Yet we are short of hands to do all the …

Plastic is one of the biggest contributors to pollution of the planet. Due to the low recyclability of oil-based plastics, most plastic is being disposed into the environment. According to plastic oceans, 10 million tons of plastic are dumped into oceans annually. Currently, researchers are developing …

The belief in progress, and with it the short sustainability of contentment has colonized the world and forms a powerful revenue model behind (technological) innovation. Under the heading of Life-Long-Learning, it got another boost in education. In this article it is argued that letting people become …

In the alchemy of the 21st century, the dream of yore - to turn lead into gold – is now to create mental faculties (mind), for example in CPUs. Every university and tech company focuses on living technology, on artificial intelligence, with real brainpower, to make autonomous decisions based on a built-in …

Our world is made up of so much technology, all around us, that we are barely aware of it. Technology accommodates our existence, as nature did for our prehistoric ancestors and still does for (most) other organisms. In this series of 3, I examine the tension between technology and nature as the host …

Inclusive labour contributes to the individual human need to realize a meaningful socially integrated existence. However, we are quite lost on what that could/should look like, if it is to be sustainable for both us and our planet! As impossible as it may be, the formulation of needs on a global level, …

“One Planet. One Health”: het is de purpose van Danone, één van de grootste voedingsmiddelbedrijven ter wereld, om te zorgen voor meer gezonde en duurzame eet- en drinkgewoonten. Naast Danone zijn er vele merken die een maatschappelijke ambitie nastreven èn daarover communiceren naar hun stakeholders. …

In Nederland zijn 16.000 melkveebedrijven met gemiddeld 105 melkkoeien per bedrijf. In het melkveehouderij systeem in Nederland is weidegang een grote drijfveer, 83% van de Nederlandse bedrijven weidt haar koeien. Een belangrijke motivatie voor melkveehouders om te weiden is het extra melkgeld wat ze …

De laatste jaren zijn er een heel aantal nieuwe marktconcepten geïntroduceerd in de Nederlandse melkveehouderij die de diversiteit tussen melkveebedrijven vergroot. Waar in het verleden hoofdzakelijk verschil werd gemaakt in de gehalten in de melk, is tegenwoordig dat niet meer voldoende. Duurzaamheid …

This open access book states that the endemic societal faultlines of our times are deeply intertwined and that they confront us with challenges affecting the security and sustainability of our societies. It states that new ways of inhabiting and cultivating our planet are needed to keep it healthy for …