Category: Time

Stories about the time we live in

Going Green [6]: greener living ideas
It’s a constant struggle for me. I think we need a whole lot of policy change to meet our climate goals and save our planet from climate change, deforestation, and pollution. But then again, while we – by ourselves – have very little impact on the global outcome, eventually we’ll all be making changes. These…
Going Green [5]: cheese is heaven, cheese is hell
In the Summer of 2019, after attending barbecue with way too much meat on the grill that can possibly be safe, moral and responsible, I decided to become a vegetarian. I had been eating less and less meat over the last few years, having been a pretty big fan of it throughout my teens and…
Going green [4]: Voting with your wallet
It’s a problem environment friendly folks run into frequently. Green companies taking money from companies that aren’t green. Recently,oat drink company Oatly made the news for taking private equity money from an investment firm called Blackstone. The slightly ominously named company is linked to all that’s”currently evil in this world. For example, the head of…
Going green [3]: train holidays
On #FridaysforFuture, Stefan Meeuws publishes a blog on going green. He has recently become a vegetarian, is switching to a greener bank and in general tries to reduce his impact on the environment. This blog is a personal account of the struggles and benefits he experiences on his quest to go green. He hopes to…
Going Green [2]: Protect, fund, restore
On #FridaysforFuture, Stefan Meeuws publishes a blog on going green. He has recently become a vegetarian, is switching to a greener bank and in general tries to reduce his impact on the environment. This blog is a personal account of the struggles and benefits he experiences on his quest to go green. He hopes to…
Going Green [1]: Switching banks
Every #FutureFriday Stefan Meeuws publishes a blog on going green. He has recently become a vegetarian, is switching to a greener bank and in general tries to reduce his impact on the environment. This blog is a personal account of the struggles and benefits he experiences on his quest to go green. He hopes to…
Choose better leaders
We can disassociate ourselves from the leaders making bad decisions right now, around the world. “They’re not my leaders, I did not vote for them…” But the fact is, as societies we did. So let’s not distance ourselves, let’s engage… Recently, I was listening to the good-bad-advice podcast “Dear Hank & John” by brothers John…
Alliances and Monuments
When Facebook has started to celebrate my friendships in weird slideshows causing retina seizures, I opened the bottom drawer to grab an old ugly postcard with singing kittens. Maximum noise out of a little loudspeaker, the melody of Happy Birthday, no words, only meows, in a never ending loop until I’d fold it up. When…
The Right to Stay Offline
After Mike Ushakov’s favourite writer Kazuo Ishiguro was awarded the Nobel Prize in literature, he read one of his interviews and discovers the freedom of remaining offline.