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 ...

Loser

Monday, January 19th, 2009 Posted in Uncategorized | 1 Comment »

One of the issues I grapple with most is how to approach the plastics industry in my book on the plastic soup. When I started this project, after having spoken to Rinus van den Berg of DSM for the first interview, ...

Pimp it up

Saturday, January 10th, 2009 Posted in Uncategorized | 1 Comment »

I had my suspicions that in doing my Plastic Soup interviews I would run into some real interesting people. However, I absolutely did not think that this network would expand so quickly. In the Netherlands, I got so many astonished looks ...

A green point

Thursday, January 8th, 2009 Posted in Uncategorized | 1 Comment »

The first interview I had for Plastic Soup was with Rinus van den Berg, Architectural & Industrial Designer at DSM. I knew that DSM was a large chemical group. But I only realized its size when I noticed all the smoke-stacks ...