Loves a comment: "Verena, had to repost your idea, cause I think Maarten could throw..."September 8 2012
"we can gather information on the best things to do and buy to make your own world a bit better. Tips: nothing is what it seems: is some green energy supplier not providing real green energy: put the information in the wiki. Anybody looking to select an energy supplier can first look here. Actions: who is organizing actions and how can you help? And 1000's of other things might find a place (you don't have to think of everything, because everybody helps you)."September 8 2012 on Open a better world wiki. Everybody can contribute.
Open a better world wiki. Everybody can contribute. September 8 2012
"I can think of many things that negative effects of digital data: use of energy, carbon offset, global heating, privacy issues and probably more. But what do you think then of the alternatives? What do you think costs the most: sending a postcard, email or sms? So what is the purpose of your idea? At the same time: 2% of worldwide carbon offset comes from data centers. Those are the places where our google and facebook accounts and this website are residing. I happen to know that this website runs in a green energy center which has very efficient cooling. The amount of data storage and traffic will probably keep on growing. I think improvements can be made here (and they are being made): - More green energy (can go faster by introducing a carbon offset tax to non-green energy) - More efficient use of resources (move from normal servers to virtual servers, saves on total capacity and hardware) - Better software (a nice example: if i put a song on Dropbox, this actually won't take any diskspace, if somebody else has the same songfile on Dropbox. It just recognizes that and they will not save the same file twice on their disks) - Clouds can save space (you might think it costs, but it can save): think of how many diskspace you use to save your music collection. Multiply that by the amount of people having a digital music collection. Now think of something like Spotify. No more millions of times the same files in collections, but one data source for us all."September 7 2012 on Don't produce any digital Data for one month
Don't produce any digital Data for one month September 7 2012
"@Annette, thank you for responding. My opinion is not about judging this Keep it clean day. I like the idea and hope that the day will be a big success. And at the same time, i still feel the same, about Maarten becoming an instrument for another project. However Maarten would definitely add his own approach to this idea if it wins this month, i still hope that this site enables people to come up with new ideas that are still not covered by existing projects. I expect that most of the voters are not from this site's own community (as they are almost all anonymous - you can see this by clicking on Votes on this page) but all from the Keep it clean day community. And i feel strongly that Annette should have been transparant here in her involvement in this project."August 30 2012 on On the 21th of September the Netherlands celebrate 'KeepItCleanDay!'....
"While the cause is noble, I doubt if I find this the best thing to do for Maarten. This way it is not his own project anymore, but he (this site) is merely a campaign instrument for somebody else's ideas. Annette is probably the same Annette that writes almost all content on keepitcleanday.nl"August 29 2012 on On the 21th of September the Netherlands celebrate 'KeepItCleanDay!'....
Stop doing stupid things. August 19 2012
Loves a comment: "Hey Bart and Saskia :) I don't want Maarten to force people to..."August 19 2012
"For example: i read about green energy from Nederlandse Energie Maatschappij which is completely fake. I would like to have a website where i can easily lookup a topic like Energy and then I can find this info there."August 14 2012 on open up a website where you collect information and stories about how...
"Patrice, i think you can do somethink to end the crisis in Syria and the poverty in Africa, or whatever big. And ofcourse you cannot do that by yourself, you need to join forces. Every existing big movement has one time just started by one or a few individuals who had a believe in a solution, just like Amnesty has been founded by one single laywer in London. I would think of this platform as a nice start to change something that we as individuals find very difficult to change. This is a group of intelligent, progressive people who are all willing to spend time to improve the world, let's use that power to make a real difference. And for the animals in shelters: let's not increase the number of pet owners, let just people who really want a pet choose to get it from a shelter. And improve the life of animals in shelter, by for example bring children from schools to the shelters, to play with the animals. Good for children and good for the animals."August 13 2012 on Adopt a pet. And convince at least 10 people to adopt a pet too....
Loves a comment: "You could start a "pay it forward"-chain, that's a snowball for sure..."August 3 2012