Newspapers, packaging and receipts: we still use a lot of paper in the Netherlands. Still, more and more people are seeing the benefits of consuming less and less paper. Start-up Bonnie is also doing its bit with a universally usable,…
By 2030, seventy percent of the energy supply in the Netherlands must come from renewable energy sources such as solar and wind. The integration of these large numbers of variable, renewable energy requires technological innovations to prevent fluctuations in the…
Renewable energy is becoming more and more important, especially now that it is so important for the green transition of Europe. Yet managing data and decision-making can often be tough for producers and suppliers of energy. Several young people believe…
In Germany this summer, you can travel on regional public transport for 9 euros per month. Innovation Origins is seizing this opportunity to visit a number of future-proof projects. In this edition, we travel to Mülheim an der Ruhr. Mülheim…
If we drive slowly – and never faster than 100 kilometers per hour – we, as motorists, compensate for the high fuel prices, the energy shortages, and the CO2 and nitrogen surpluses, according to Het Parool. How wonderful it would…
In our weekly recap on Sunday, we as editors look back at the past seven days. We do this at the suggestion of our cartoonist Albert Jan Rasker. He chooses a subject, makes a drawing, and we take it from…
Sales of electric vehicles are booming. Both in Europe and Germany. After initial difficulties, the German market for electric mobility has now become the most important market in Europe in terms of unit sales. A not insignificant part of this…
Every year, The RepTrak Company publishes a reputation ranking of companies in over sixty countries. In the top six of the Dutch ranking four companies hail from the Brainport region: Philips (1), ASML (2), Jumbo Supermarkets (5) and VDL (6).…
Regenerative agriculture is as old as time itself. After the Second World War, today’s intensive agriculture came into being, subsidised by the Dutch government. Growing a single crop became more lucrative -the harvest was easier, yields were higher and no…
Dr. Google has achieved enormous popularity. More than half of the queries are health queries. But according to Platform24, the search engine finds the right disease only 36 percent of the time. For example, a search for “pain in the…