On Friday November 6th, 2015 Kenneth Cukier, data editor at The Economist, gave a lecture for the John Adams institute about the impact of Big Data at Pakhuis de Zwijger, Amsterdam. I was the moderator of this event and started with the introduction, which is added below.
Click here to see the video of the evening with Kenneth Cukier in Pakhuis de Zwijger.
‘So what can we do to protect our city from climate change?’ Every city in the world is asking itself that question, including Montclair, New Jersey, just across the river from New York. New Jersey and New York were hard hit by Hurricane Sandy. And that was the question that Gray Russell, sustainability officer of Montclair, put to me in our interview for a special edition of the local cable tv show ‘Greater Montclair’. I was in town to give two lectures in the month-long program Rising Tide at Montclair University. Read the article…
During TEDx Zwolle I gave a lecture about water in the city around the world. The sea and the rivers have shaped the identity and the country itself. Climate change increases the risk of flooding and drought. The effects of a disaster in a densely populated country like The Netherlands are incalculable. Climate change is now forcing itself upon us: a new reality that cannot be ignored. Read the article…
Voor een stad is woningnood in zekere zin een teken van succes. Groot of klein, in de steden waar iedereen wil zijn ontstaat vanzelf een tekort aan woonruimte. New York, Londen, Amsterdam – ongeveer de helft van de huishoudens bestaat tegenwoordig uit één persoon, oftewel de city solo. Read the article…
In 2012, the foundation of Castle Groeneveld awarded me the Groeneveld Prize for my contribution to the debate about nature and landscape in the Netherlands. In my essay ‘The value of nature’ I describe how our thinking about nature has changed from nature as wild and undisturbed to a kind a nature that mostly should be of service to us. Read the essay (in Dutch) below:
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Stichting Kasteel Groeneveld heeft mij de Groeneveldprijs 2012 toegekend voor mijn bijdrage aan het debat over natuur en landschap in Nederland. In mijn essay ‘Het nut van natuur’ beschrijf ik hoe in ons denken over de natuur, de pendule de afgelopen twee decennia woest heen en weer is gezwaaid tussen wildernis en nuttige natuur die er vooral voor ons is. Read the article…