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When We Measure The Wrong Things

GDP is a poor met­ric for eval­u­at­ing invest­ments to increase effi­ciency. Every­thing else equal, more effi­ciency means that GDP is reduced. This is totally con­trary to any lean man­age­ment approach.

Germany Plans To Switch To 100% Alternative Energy By 2050

A new study issued by the Ger­man “Umwelt­bun­de­samt” comes to the con­clu­sion that Ger­many should be able to switch energy pro­duc­tion to 100% renew­able sources within 40 years. Inter­est­ingly the head of the agency, Jochen Flas­barth, states that this is doable with tech­nol­ogy that is avail­able today. Build­ing the nec­es­sary infra­struc­ture would need deci­sive action […]

E-Bikes Take Off In Europe

It is no secret that many cities in Europe are bike-friendly, with ded­i­cated bike lanes, paths solely for use by bicy­clists, and gen­er­ally a higher accep­tance of bicy­cle in gen­eral traf­fic. Still, if you are a per­son of the more lazy kind, the idea to work out just to get to work or do your […]

You Can’t Control What You Can’t Measure

I am still con­cerned about what’s going on with the oil spill in the Gulf of Mex­ico. Pre­vi­ous esti­mates were that 800,000l oil spill into the sea every day. Some sci­en­tists come to the con­clu­sion that it is more likely to be 10 times more! It seems to be con­sen­sus that right now nobody knows […]

The Cost Quagmire

Wher­ever you stand on the global warm­ing debate, one thing is indis­putable: Car­bon diox­ide con­tent in the earth’s atmos­phere increased over the last 100 years by more than 25%. And again, wher­ever you stand on the global warm­ing debate, it should be clear that such a change in CO2 does trig­ger changes. Whether you think […]