Our entire society is built on wasting everything, including the most basic necessities : energy, water and food. The very first step towards actual sustainability is to drastically slash the amount of waste in these three.
We are drowning in wasted resources and it’s killing us. Read More »
With French cities being overrun with trash, I ponder our untenable situation. Something will have to give in, our economic systems or our planet.
France is overrun with trash. So is our planet Read More »
A quick overview of the waste we generate in the European Union and how we could reduce these amounts. What if regarded all these as nutrients for a circular economy ?
In A Circular Economy, There Will Be No More Waste Read More »
My review of Regeneration by Paul Hawken. A must-read for every family and community.
Book review : Regeneration by Paul Hawken Read More »
A reflection on climate change and the daunting but exciting task at hand in energy, transportation, industry, food production and so on.
1,900th Post: Climate Change As A Wicked Problem Read More »
For our Economics classes at Pinchot last year, I – with a few friends and classmates – worked on water in California. My part was focusing on the inefficiency and the leaks occuring in the State. The findings are quite unsettling.
Fighting the drought, water efficiency in California Read More »
For our System Thinking class this quarter at Pinchot, we had to read this book and I daresay it is an excellent primer indeed.
Book review : Thinking in systems, a primer Read More »
I wrote as early as 2008 about plastic being a curse for our oceans. It seems the situation may completely out of control as according to the World Economic Forum plastic could outweigh fishes in our oceans by mid century.
The plastic curse lives on in our oceans Read More »
After reducing our trash at the source and composting and recycling what can be, waste to energy is a good way to avoid landfilling while producing both heat and electricity. China is thus turning to this solution to answer its most pressing challenges.
Largest Waste-to-Energy plant to open in China Read More »
I have the pleasure to announce you all that the biogas project I have been working with classmates this summer is now being funded on Kickstarter. After working in Colombia on large scale biogas projects, I have been lucky to work for the past three months with classmates from Pinchot University, Srirup Kumar and Joe McNulty,
Announcing our Kickstarter campaign Read More »
