Roelie
Saturday, July 10th, 2010 Posted in Uncategorized | 2 Comments »I received a call this morning. A man whom I have never seen nor spoken to, told me his wife had passed away. She was only 48. He called me because she had one last wish. She wanted everybody attending the ...
Breathe with Me
Tuesday, June 29th, 2010 Posted in Uncategorized | 2 Comments »** Vincent Janssen Steenberg suggests the following soundtrack for this article: “Breathe” – The Prodigy ** I had dinner this week with three engineers. It turned out that two of them were closely involved in a subject that is currently being ...
Fried Fish
Thursday, June 24th, 2010 Posted in Uncategorized | 2 Comments »** Dave Cooper suggests the following soundtrack for this article: “Give me back my man” – B52's (… who'll give you fish all right! )** The World Wildlife Fund held a closed meeting about the plastic soup. There were about twenty-five ...
Hospital of Horrors
Thursday, June 24th, 2010 Posted in Uncategorized | 4 Comments »* Dave Cooper suggests the following soundtracks for this article: Barbie Girl - Aqua (He adds: "This song will not do for people with no sense of humor or no sense of the irreverent. They don't need to click the ...
A cuppa Joe
Sunday, June 20th, 2010 Posted in Uncategorized | 7 Comments »* Dave Cooper suggests the following soundtracks for this article: The Coffee Song – Frank Sinatra (A great montage to a great song) and Black Coffee - Ella Fitzgerald ** I gave a lecture today at DSM Resins in Zwolle. As usual ...
Hup Holland Hup
Sunday, June 20th, 2010 Posted in Uncategorized | 2 Comments »** Dave Cooper suggests the following soundtrack for this article: Hup Holland Hup ** 'Oranje boven!' (‘Orange forever!’) sings the toddler when we walk her home from school. She gets so excited seeing all the orange decorations adorning the houses, shops ...
Plastic Soup — now even hotter!
Sunday, June 20th, 2010 Posted in Uncategorized | 1 Comment »** Dave Cooper suggests the following soundtrack for this article: Plastic Fantastic Lover – Jefferson Airplane ** Where should I begin? By saying sorry for being off the air for so long? By announcing I gave birth to a beautiful daughter? Or how about ...
We have REACH, don’t we?
Monday, June 14th, 2010 Posted in Uncategorized | 4 Comments »My greatest concern about plastic is the amount of chemicals it contains. As many as 87,000 ... and out of all these, we only know the effects on human health of a very small number. And that's scary ... What surprises me ...
Intellectual property
Sunday, November 8th, 2009 Posted in Uncategorized | No Comments »All of a sudden the plastic soup has become fashionable. No self-respecting newspaper, magazine, or broadcaster has ignored the plastic waste problem. I think that's great, and it gives me more and more confidence that Victor Hugo was right when ...
Some math …
Sunday, November 8th, 2009 Posted in Uncategorized | 1 Comment »You might get the impression that we in the Netherlands are dealing well with our waste. Relatively little waste ends up on the street (and thus eventually in the environment), and the waste we neatly discard in trash receptacles largely ...