Livetweeting the inaugural lecture of my pal @ReintJanRenes of the @HvA about "the climate split".
He's an expert in behavior and climate and important researcher in 'my' NEONresearch.nl.
He starts with a round table with the rector of the HvA, and @helgavanleur and...
Amsterdam councilor or sustainability @mvdoorninck explains her run in with NIMBY and windmills. Love that she says this is the biggest transition since the industrial revolution. Agree 100%. And of course the point that everybody must have a say in this enormous transition.
More information in the booklet that I will link to later
What he WILL tell:
Why climate is important?
Why behavior is important?
Why changing behavior is so hard?
What can we (and @ReintJanRenes and his group) and do about it.
Papers are increasingly talking about the climate emergency. ReintJan sums up why.
Personal choices are (directly and indirectly) responsible for 84% of emissions.
So we should not say Shell has to solve it. We have to solve it together.
1) Some behavioral changes are hard and require automatic behaviors.
2) We have to do it together. Which is often hard when you think: what does it matter.
3) It can be hard if you feel it's not about you
4) The time horizon (the long and winding road) is long
5) It's abstract. You can't see CO2 and it's all so far away.
What can we do? For action we need
- capacity (that we have time to think about it etc.)
- motivation (why is it useful? who am I? etc.)
- occasion (social influence, rules/regulation, etc.)
Often this is not yet part of policy.
They work with the spark circle (not to be confused with my sparkcity model ;-)
This is going to fast for me but it's similar to the Deming quality circle but more specified for research into behavior. And this leads to specific interventions that work.
The entire team of the electorate. Milan and Helena are working for NEONresearch.nl with the other PhD students.
He is mentioning me as the person that got him to join NEON! I did not expect that. Back at ya @ReintJanRenes ! Really look forward to our collaboration and combining technology and behavior to create really useful pathways to sustainability.
Thanking all the people and organisations that brought him to this historical moment. I'm (Auke) am often thinking we are all standing on the shoulders of giants and our institutions that we build over the year. The End.
It's official (if you look real closely).
A link to the booklet (in Dutch) with a lot of theory but a simple conclusion: preaching won't work and we can only create this transition if we acknowledge the worldview of others and honestly try to understand what drives *them*. hva.nl/content/evenem…
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A new 'policy brief' for the Victorian Government in Australia has convinced them to create a road tax for EVs.
It wrongfully claims EVs emit more CO2.
If you follow me you know that's not true so I guess I have to do another debunk.
It's written by a group of architects and urban designers dreaming of a city with less cars who are apparently afraid that electric vehicles (EVs) will delay phasing out gas guzzlers.
Yesterday there was another (Dutch) documentary about the abysmal situation of most miners in Congo (some of them children). I think drawing attention to this is good but the format and answers where misguided and counterproductive. npostart.nl/waarde-van-de-…
The formula of the program is the usual: 1) Appeal to emotion and stoke revulsion at child labour to get people outraged 2) Interview experts who have 'dirt' 3) Appoint some super indirect random scapegoats that you can get on camera and have a 'brave' interviewer confront them
I know: it's the outrage that counts. Truth and solutions are of secondary interest. But let's look at those too.
The solution the programs seems to suggest is: never buy from people implicated in child labour or corruption.
The @guardian made headlines Sunday by erroneously announding (while misquoting a confused John Kerry) that half of the technology we need to reduce emissions still needs to be invented.
In truth all the tech is there but some of it needs to mature.
Question twitter. Does it also bother you that the formula for many superhero movies seems to be: moral characters kan kill anything that comes at them with a gun but never the psychopaths that keep sending them to their deaths.
Makes the 'moral' characters very immoral to me.
Case in point: most of the X-men movies (what the hell is wrong with all the people letting Stryker live?) but thank god for deadpool I guess.
Something else that never ceases to amaze me: showing a nippel or using a swear word being a bigger problem that thoughtlessly going into a scene where you kill many (expendable?) people with guns.
Call me uncivilized but I think killing is worse than making love.
The @Hyundai Ioniq 5: first car to do V2G (vehicle to grid) with the onboard charger!
(No special DC chargepoint needed.)
And it's immediately tested here in the Netherlands by @WeDriveSolar and @hyundainl.
Great step because V2G can add a LOT of value.
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EVs can add a powerful demand to the grid at the moment when the grid is already at peak capacity. (Namely when people come home.)
Shifting charging to a later time on most days (called smart charging) makes that peak go away and electricity cleaner.
But we can go a step further by making the car actually deliver energy BACK to the grid with V2G or vehicle to grid. Now the car can actively LOWER the peak and we can TURN OFF GAS OR COAL while the electric vehicle charges on solar and wind on moments when these are abundant.
Very well written opinion piece on the imagined war on meat. There's no such thing (yet). Just some scientists pointing out it has a really high carbon footprint and requires a lot of (fertile) land.
Of course there is also all the myths about meat eating being healthier (although most actual health experts say the opposite).
And what about animal suffering you ask? I predict that in 30 years we'll be just as ashamed about the bio industry as we are now about genocides.
Which brings out the techno-optimist in me. (Apparently that is a bad thing, but I don't think so.)
I think plant-based alternatives will continue to get tastier to the point where you like them more.
Together with cultured meat they will replace traditional meat I think.