BLUE STORIES

Are you ready to communicate about sustainable development?

I have witnessed a lot of damage inflicted by both men and nature.
Now man is pushing nature to react forcefully to our longstanding abuse and exploitation of the planet.

Climate change may ve here to stay, but it is not too late to
communicate

what is at stake
how to change our habits
make a case for cleantech

This is a new venture for me. I have been back to school to get two postgraduate degrees in Climate and Energy and Energy Efficiency Services.

I produce video stories about Sustainable Development.
Blue Stories.

 

Fashion is one of the world’s most resource intensive industries and forty percent of clothing is discarded within a year. The industry also produces ten percent of CO2 emissions. At the Katowice climate talks, dozens of fashion industry firms pledged to explore circular business models.
Two Antwerp fashion designers already show how to turn waste into fashion.

 

75000 People in the streets of Brussels demand the world tackles climate change. It is the biggest climate march ever in the Belgian capital. The march comes at the start of the yearly UN climate conference in Katowice, Poland. There, countries are expected to agree on rules to implement the Paris Agreement. In Paris in 2015 the whole world committed to reduce rising global temperature to 1,5 degrees, but without any clear rules. This year experts have been warning much more needs to be done, and much more urgently than previously thought.

 

 

Vlaanderen is de dichtst bevolkte regio in Europa, op enkele stadsstaten na. Al van in de 19de eeuw moedigde de politiek het wonen op het platteland aan. Vlamingen wonen daardoor verspreid over het hele land. Stedenbouwkundigen en mobiliteitdeskundigen klagen dit gebrek aan ruimtelijke ordening al lang aan. Het is de oorzaak van het verkeersinfarct op de wegen en van veel energieverspilling. Het maakt het ook bijzonder moeilijk een efficient openbaar vervoer te organiseren. De Vlaamse regering kondigt nu schoorvoetend een ‘betonstop’ aan. Tegen 2040 moet het wonen vooral in woonkernen worden geconcentreerd. Maar tegen dan zal nog heel watg roene en open ruimte bijkomend worden gebetonneerd.