What if we could have clean drinking water and grow crops anywhere in the world? Wouldn’t that be great?! The good news is: now we can. With the brand-new invention by the Dutch artist Ap Verheggen and engineer Peter van ...
A snippet of news. Recently, I have launched my own newsletter, because I have set up camp at the cross roads of transition and art. As a communication activist I work and experiment freely and eagerly with a great diversity ...
The newspaper photo made my (German) mother laugh. The Dutch prime minister visiting king Willem-Alexander on his bike. ‘This great kingdom…’, she laughed. ‘So modest in its representation.’ We agreed a cycling prime minister looks good. Unfortunately, the reason for ...
How to turn a few litres of water into tens of gallons in a bone-dry desert? How to build a house that turns to or from the sun? For Rotterdams WeerWoord, in november we organised a ‘Festival of Farfetched Stories’. ...
For IKEA, I interviewed Eef Loozen. When Eef was a young girl, she lost both her parents. Ten years later she lost her brother too. But she lived on, learned to grieve and now counsels people in grief and loss. ...
Do you recognize this? You’re at a conference or in a workshop and you are feeling really inspired by what the speaker is saying. You would love to capture your learnings and insights in your notes. Not just by writing them ...
We haven’t cancelled anything. My colleagues and I. We did have some of our contractors wonder whether to cancel events that we were planning. But we told them: ‘No. We will do them virtually.’ Even if the events are about connecting, ...
About three weeks ago I was feeling really scared. Friends were sharing video’s and articles about the COVID-19 situation in Italy. They described the mayhem in the hospitals and the complete unknown they had landed in.
I love late bloomers. I find very little more optimistic than the thought that you’re never to old to be creative, productie and entrepreneurial. That your whole life can be a great adventure packed with discovery and learning. And that ...
Okay, so even though the movements and communities I work in, are working towards a better future, they aren’t very diverse. Even in our climate movement in the super diverse city of Rotterdam, with at least 175 nationalities. So, I ...