Fanning the flames of action: Nexus Climate Dinner
The roaring fire we gathered around at the beginning set the mood for the rest of the night: a warm search for honest answers to our climate problem. With non-stop conversation and debate, ideas were exchanged and plans were set in motion for anti-plastic campaigns, as well as tackling the big and small climate issues in our daily lives.
Feel your way through the forts
An old dark cloud looms over our heads. It has a big impact on how we live today, but few bother to look up at it. What is it?
A is for Animal-Free
We love a good challenge. This time, it emerged while watching the ground-breaking environmental documentary Cowspiracy, with insights that dropped on us like a bomb. The film takes on one of the most destructive industries today: animal agriculture. And how it impacts our land, oceans, climate. The livestock industry as a whole accounts for 51% of worldwide greenhouse gas emissions: more than cars, planes and all other forms of transport combined. And that is when five of us decided to stop eating animal products all together, for three months. Here is how it went down.
She who sees the seas
Whatever screen you’re currently staring at, whatever chair you’re sitting on, whatever clothes you’re wearing, it almost certainly came to you from far, far away. And all that stuff doesn’t magically drop on our doorsteps. 90% of what we eat, touch, drive… almost all our traded goods arrive to us by ship. 100.000 ships ply our seas and oceans every day to supply us with everything we think we need.
Documentary 'Sunny Side of Spirit' on television and online
What can we learn from how people in different parts of the world deal with mental health? Documentary maker Sunny Bergman explores this question in the beautiful and brand new set of VPRO documentaries titled 'Sunny Side of Spirit'. Dr. Monk is involved and was asked to produced the documentary in Ghana. It aired on national television and is found online here! See the trailer below, find out more about the documentary and our involvement on our projects page, and let us know what you think of the documentary on Facebook!
Ama on BNR Newsradio
If you are up this Saturday morning ánd speak Dutch (what are the odds?!), tune into BNR News Radio at 11. Ama - the creative card up Dr. Monk's sleeve - will be interviewed on what it's like to work in such different contexts as we do.
Wet wonder: Makoko floating school in Nigeria
Can't be too cool for this school! This floating beauty was built by architecture firm NLÉ for the water community of Makoko, near Lagos, Nigeria. It addresses the community's educational needs and serves as an innovative example for other coastal communities that face climate change and rapid urbanization.
A conversation in Dutch about flat bike tires
When life gives you randomness, make videos like these.