Down to Earth
Do all websites really have to be online at all times? Without missing a lot of traffic, we can save more than 25% energy for our solar-powered server by using opening hours.
The hellish fire I experienced devastated everything in its path and showed terrifyingly how fragile the technology is on which we have made ourselves so dependent.
The internet already accounts for more than 5% of global electricity consumption and threatens to become one of the major energy wasters. Something can be done about this. Read how we did that.
To what extent can you separate your body from everything that keeps it alive? How autonomous can we humans be when in nothing we do we are really independent?
The greatest shortcoming of the human race is our inability to understand the exponential function. As a result, we appear to never be able to intervene in time. I will explain it to you.
Man reacts sluggish when life-threatening situations develop slowly. How hot should it become before we will see and accept the global crises, to then be able to take action?
It is not a sign of health if you are perfectly adapted to a deeply sick society. Only when you can fully step out of our well accepted civilisation and look at it, you can see this.
With the rise of the greening of our society, a lot of money is now invested, by those who have it, in 'green' enterprises. How can this create actual sustainability?
Sustainability is fashion, but hardly anyone seams to realise what it means.
What is the most efficient way to pick cherries? Efficiency is Thé main aspect of technology.
We are with too many people. What is the influence of one child less on our carbon emissions.
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