De recente kritiek op de Triodos Bank is onterecht. Bij duurzaam bankieren hoort een andere houding dan die van consument, vindt Frank Jan de Graaf, lector corporate governance & leadership op de Hogeschool van Amsterdam. Het conflict tussen de Triodos Bank en een groep van haar certificaathouders is …

Velen in de milieubeweging zetten hun kaarten op regelgeving. De schaduwkanten van deze benadering blijken bij Triodos Bank, een duurzame onderneming met een maatschappelijke doelstelling. Voor écht duurzame ontwikkeling is een goede verbinding nodig tussen geld en duurzame doelen. Daarin heeft regelgeving …

Human beings are, above all, narrative creatures, extremely sensitive to good stories. The (implicit) stories of futurologists have their own characteristic structure, when they outline what our future full of technology will look like. One element of their narrative structure is often that the speaker, …

In order to be able to do paid work, it is a condition that people also do reproductive work. Raising children, taking care of the house, running errands, taking care of the community (family, neighbours), etc. all this is also necessary work. No paid work without this so-called reproductive work. There …

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It is argued that both continuous improvement and growth in one direction, are (sometimes partly) based on the illusion of control. It is precisely through our actions, by exerting as much control as possible over both natural and artificial processes, that we make things worse, often despite our good …

When considering which is faster, a pedestrian or a car, we often overlook many aspects in our reasoning. For a car to be successful, thousands of kilometers of asphalt, sewers, filling and charging stations must be built and maintained, right across the (ecological) landscape and so on. We tend to focus …

The introduction of new technologies does not follow a democratic process. Yes, afterwards, when the technology is no longer new, rules and regulations will come but mainly to protect the now large lucrative companies that develop and propagate it (actually colonise us with it). It is argued that change …

In this article, it is argued that In polarization, we fixate on two poles, like true and false, news versus fake news, real versusfalse, or in a social context, rich versus poor, and good versus bad. This is an instance of singular thinking, because a third factor is overlooked, being the area between …

In this article it is argued that the knowledge and wisdom are there to reclaim our place in nature as a peaceful species. The technology is also there, although we walked dangerously close to the abyss to get hold of it. No one intended to become an enemy of ecology and our own survival. We gained powers …