Climate crisis? Try this!
It’s a problem that everyone runs into every now and then. It is a another day at the office, you are just getting into the flow of working wonders for humanity, medical progress, economic growth — and then your planet suddenly turns out to have a climate crisis. What to do? I discuss five home …
We can change
Our way of life is destroying the planet. We hear this message regularly. When I switch on the washing machine, the CO2 that is released in the process of generating electricity causes the atmosphere to warm up a little bit more. As a result, the chances of extreme weather have already become much greater, and …
Unsuspecting
Sunday, January 27, 2019: I’m still deciding whether it was the best or the worst day of my life. Maybe it was both. In any case, at the end of the day there was a new small human on the planet, and we were parents to a beautiful son. (On this website he remains anonymous …
The dearest freshness
Our personal Baby-exit could happen any day now. Hopefully, it will be easier and less frantic than the Brexit. It might help that there is little room to negotiate; the baby is now the only one with decision power. And he has a few more weeks to make his entrance into the world. Obviously, having …
No one is forgotten
On World Animal Day, I would like to share a quotation that I found in a book about animal rights from Andrew Linzey. It is a vision that was recorded by Julian of Norwich, a remarkable woman from the 14th century who lived as a hermit in England. The text is old English and has an appropriately …