Category: Fun

29 Nov

Strawberries & Cream

Strawberries & Cream from Strawberry Earth on Vimeo. Good initiative! Check Strawberry Earth, an online magazine with lots of good stuff about the environment. Beautiful. Thank you Joachim! Strawberries & Cream from Strawberry Earth on Vimeo. Related items Turn Good Into Gold A Greener and Healthier Holi The problem with debates, and the art of [...]
13 Sep

Happiness

Are you in a happy mood?  Take a look at this World Database of Happiness, a great scientific & inspirational directory for everything from a selection on valid measurement to a state happiness ranking. Heard about Bhutan’s policy to measure ‘Gross National Happiness‘ instead of the traditional economic measure of GDP? Or watch Goldfrapp’s ‘Happiness’, [...]
07 Aug

Belgian Blog ‘Award’

I was happily surprised today to find an e-mail in my Inbox that I was awarded a Belgian Blog ‘Bokaal’ (literally a jar, but in this case an award) by the Dutch weblog Sargasso, a big name in the Dutch blogosphere. Thanks for the honour! In tradition with following up this award, I have listed [...]
15 Nov

Turn Good Into Gold

As part of their Lustrum Week, the Rotterdam STAR Study Association, organized a splashy conference at the Erasmus University, with prominent speakers giving their view on socially responsible entrepreneurship, and how to make profit out of ‘good things’. Among the speakers, were: Wouter Bos (Dutch Vice-Prime Minister and Minister of Finance); Dr. Ibrahim Abouleish (Founder [...]
26 Oct

we are multicolored

There’s nobody quite like you. You’re one in seven billion. So make your own flag. We are multicolored thanks to anotherblog. Related items Number games: 2 degrees Celsius, 2050 and the G8. But does it all add up? HOME: It’s Too Late To Be A Pessimist 60 Years Happiness The final countdown