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Recently I’ve become quite interested in the works of Paul Hawken. As an environmentalist he states that we need business and entrepreneurship, that this type of human behavior can work in our benefit. There are two main things which need to change though: A corporation can also grow inwards. Creating a better service is sometimes […]
Alhier een post speciaal voor mezelf (zoals alle andere posts ook zijn, natuurlijk ;). Ik ben zo’n gast met van die lijstjes van dingen die hij niet wil vergeten en zowaar dacht ik, waarom zet ik ze niet op m’n blog? Zo bewaar ik ook vaak dingen via draft smsjes… Maar goed, zie hier: A […]
I bought the book Mining the Sky by John S. Lewis and I like it very much. Its about space and all the resources we can extract when we decide to leave our cradle: Earth. There was also a chapter about the history of space exploration and I learned a lot by reading that. Its […]
I’m filling my life with Science Fiction again! After reading Kim Stanley Robinson‘s Mars Trilogy and after having finished working fulltime on my Earth Mars Travel.com project it has been a while… Recently I’ve started to read the Time Odyssey trilogy by the late Arthur C. Clarke. And that has inspired me to start writing […]
In a previous post I already wrote about the Science in the Capitol trilogy by Kim Stanley Robinson. I was reading the second book then and now I just finished the 3rd book, Sixty Days and Counting. Well, I have to say: WOW! He has done it again, I really love his style. His books […]
Kim Stanley Robinson’s latest trilogy is called the Science of the Capitol trilogy, as you may have read in my previous post. I’m now reading the second book, Fifty Degrees Below. I know KSR from his Mars Trilogy which got me into doing Geology, and in particular Planetary Geology, and even more particular Areology, e.g. […]
I have read the book ‘State of Fear‘ by Michael Crichton. It was nice to read and funny that it apparently is so sceptical about human induced global warming. However, one thing is true, ‘global warming’ is really becoming a public issue (see f.e. An Inconvenient Truth). As a scientists I will allways be sceptical, but […]
From a colleague I heard about this book: The World Without Us by Alan Weisman. It’s a description what would happen if the whole of humanity would disappear from the planet. It’s not about the reason why this would happen, it merely gives a picture of the state of a world without us. A world […]
I’m reading a book from Michael Crichton called Next. It’s a thriller about genetic engineering. It’s a really nice book, just what I would expect from a Michael Crichton book. Today I rented the movie Next. And no people, it’s hasn’t got anything to do with the book Next. It’s based on a novel by Philip K. […]
Really strange, these Mars Trilogy books by Kim Stanley Robinson have been reviewed in a scientific journal (Ecological Economics 33 (2000) 167–169). These books are REALLY packed with information and ideas. The review led me after some googling to the International Society for Ecological Economics. So there really is a lot of research going on. But […]