Posts

Showing posts with the label circular economy

A plan for a circular campus (TU Delft) in 2030

A plan for a circular campus (TU Delft) in 2030 In our master program, we have a course called Interdisciplinary Project Group ( IPG ) where the aim is to prepare us as industrial ecologists to the "real world". It is a common feeling in our master and in the student population of IE that we live in a bubble. We take for granted that every other human being in our society thinks like us and we are always surprised at how can we not for once just solve climate change and etc! I was listening to a podcast this morning called the Hidden Brain in NPR and for the 100th episode they invited the Nobel laureate and author of "Thinking, fast and slow" Daniel Kahneman. He said that our minds are not ready for tackling climate change and that the only to solve would be to send preachers everywhere that people would listen to. A bit like religion. Maybe that's the only way to solve the problem! Coming back to the aim of this post, we were asked to provide a plan on h...