“People should be more careful. Why are plastic bags such a problem? Because you just throw them out. If you are careful, then no plastic bags will end up in the environment,” Prof. Dr. Jean-Marie Lehn states firmly. The French…
How can we as a society benefit even more from the knowledge that is being developed at our Dutch universities? How do you transfer this knowledge into innovations that boost our economy and offer solutions to our major societal challenges?…
New sustainable, social housing estates in areas with aging populations under the smoke of the big cities. According to Dutch Blue Millies co-founder Jan van Veelen, this is what a lot of Dutch people want. Van Veelen explains the vision of…
During a symposium held yesterday, three researchers from the Eindhoven University of Technology (TU/e) gave an evaluation of the UN climate conference. According to the researchers, it is possible that the Netherlands will lead the way in the transition by…
Eating enough vegetables and exercising: no one will deny that a proactive attitude improves health. Yet it is not always easy to make the right choices. For what diseases are you susceptible and how do you adapt your life accordingly?…
What is an interesting substance that can serve as an alternative to diesel? Michael Boot started his PhD research with that question. That was in 2005. He was a mechanical engineering graduate and had a question for chemistry. Boot turned…
If it were up to billionaire Andrew Forrest, an environmentally friendly ship that uses ammonia rather than fuel oil to sail will be on the water by 2022, an environmentally-friendly solution for a polluting sector. And it is not the…
The technology behind self-driving cars was behind the idea of creating a kind of harness for the blind and visually impaired. Co-founder Mael Fabien of the Swiss company biped explains how it works. How did the idea come about? “Seeing…
Along with the climate summit in Glasgow, there was the Day of the Climate Agreement in the Netherlands. The lecture by behavioral scientist Reint Jan Renes about our own behavior got me thinking. His lecture was called: ‘The climate gap:…
Our food has a massive environmental footprint: one-third of global greenhouse gas emissions come from the food chain. An equally large share of all global food is wasted. Part of the key to a more sustainable food chain rests with…