Luxe jungles, moveable homes, and building for resilience — With the climate emergency crescendoing in real and tangible ways for larger and larger parts of the population, we need to look deeper into how our cities and the communities within them can adapt. The following decade will be nothing short of an upheaval. Those in power hung onto business…

An environmental scientist calls BS — I wrote my first thesis on the eradication of PET waste with the help of circular economy principles. The near-complete eradication of single-use plastic is feasible and affordable. …

Hyperlocal, green, happy — Cities should be smart, efficient spaces where we have everything at our doorstep. At least, in theory, or if you are lucky enough to live in the nicer areas of your town. Some cities feel more accommodating than others, and they all have different characters. But one thing is for…

Here is what you can do instead — I’m sure I’m not the first person to tell you that the world's plastic problem is at a critical level today. From the Stone Age to the Iron Age to the Steel Age, we delineate society’s epochs by their primary material for fabrication. …

There is no way around it; if we do not address our fossil fuel dependence and end the fossil fuel industry, our Spaceship Earth will collapse. Oil corporations knew for half a century that they were irreversibly destroying our life support systems. They are so obscenely wealthy and influential that…

What lies behind the scenes of power? — The world is so complex today that no one can understand enough to function entirely independently. But when we look at the core of human behaviour, the way we have built the society we live in today, it's clear that incentives make the world go around. …

Here is why generative AI may lead to more polarisation, extremism, and bias — The fascination with large language models is understandable. They appear to demonstrate signs of Artificial General Intelligence, which feeds into our fantasies of the AI we were spoonfed by (pop) culture. But who can blame us? We, as humans, imbue the world around us with meaning. We look for patterns…

Girl, we might be — There is so much profoundly dysfunctional sh*t going on in our everyday lives; it got me feeling like I am in an abusive relationship with our culture. I am sure many share the feeling of being continually gaslit by late capitalism, the patriarchy, and society in general, especially if you…

Here is a more sustainable approach to new beginnings — We are nearing the end of January, and the marketing messaging designed to make you feel insecure and inferior is in full swing. Isn’t it weird that every year, in the middle of dead winter, we are expected to turn our lives around and become a better, fitter, more productive…