ENTREPRENEURSHIP

Any entrepreneurs here who look somewhat further than just becoming rich the fastest you can? Any entrepreneurs up for the challenge of balancing money for your business with social and environmental goals? Any entrepreneurs up for thinking beyond cost and going for opportunities?

It’s not that hard to make it happen. It just needs a little out-of-the-box thinking. Literally.

“As soon as you open your mind to doing things differently, the doors of opportunity practically fly off their hinges.”
― Jay Abraham

What is the issue here? We are brought up to think in limiting boxes. We think something is…

REGENERATION

So many young people are getting desperate with all the drama films out there. Let me first tell you: the films are true. It is just as bad out there as they show you. Life is being destroyed rapidly in the oceans, in mining areas, in logging areas. And there’s little you can do about it because of our terrible, consumerist human systems.

BUT there’s no need to despair. This is what you CAN do.

At the start of my search into holistic, ecological sustainability, I cried a lot. I was sooooooo angry. And then I became depressed. Seriously depressed…

FUTURE

The Anthropocene is over. The Symbiocene is upon us. And in this story, I’ll try to explain that this doesn’t mean that we will go back to some romantic notion of nature. Romantic nature never existed. Nature is about paradox. Nature is a force to reckon with, an immense source of joy, and everything in between.

In my view of the future, we will not only live in ecovillages and try to mimic indigenous people’s lives in the times their countries were undiscovered. There will be cities adapted to natural laws too. And means of transport. Comfortable, healthy houses for…

LIFE

Are you a feral human? When you want to become happy, you might consider becoming one. It made me definitely much happier than I was before!

I never knew the word feral. I’m not a native speaker, so my English vocabulary is sometimes a little limited. I used the world wild. A wild woman. A wild soul. But people have issues with the word wild. They think you blow off the handle every time. They think you are violent or unsophisticated.

And rewilding your soul definitely is not doing that. …

HEALTH

Today, I read a short piece by Ruth Glendinning. She’s a wise woman. And her story is about breath.

“The first thing we do as we enter this world is inhale. The last thing we do is exhale. In between we have experiences that ‘take our breath away’ and, fingers crossed, give it back.” — Ruth Glendinning

and

When the breath is unsteady, all is unsteady; when the breath is still; all is still. Control the breath carefully. Inhalation gives strength and a controlled body; retention gives steadiness of mind and longevity; exhalation purifies body and spirit. …

HEALTH

Today, I want to share this article by Dr Joseph Allen: “Our buildings have the power to combat COVID-19”.

Think about it. Why are healthy buildings so important?

We spend 90% of our time indoors. And don’t think it’s an urban legend. It’s true. And as we all know, buildings can either keep us healthy or make us sick.

It’s time to spend more time outside.

And it’s time for healthy buildings!

Please don’t think healthy buildings are expensive. Sick building syndrome is expensive! Think of all the costs for pills and therapy to make you healthy again… We just…

ECOLOGICAL SUSTAINABILITY

The sun is shining in my Dutch backyard. I’m sitting outside, preparing a zoom meeting with my international audience. People from all over the world working on nature-based solutions and regeneration. The birds are filling my ears with their song.

“Birds don’t sing because they have an answer. Birds sing because they have a song” — Maya Angelou

And I whistle along with them. Am I depressed by the state of the world? Sometimes! Am I angry? Not often. I know we are in the middle of an evolutionary transition. …

POETRY

My friends here on Medium show me how intuition works. And how we are all connected. They comment when I tag them at the right time. Like my sister poet Gurpreet Dhariwal today. She apparently needed to read what I wrote. It’s like I knew. And the other way around, I read their words at exactly the right time when they tag me.

We have little lines.

We flow together. And that’s what’s happening right now all over the world. People being connected. People supporting each other when they need the strength to be daring. To go on. To confront…