Entries for augustus, 2007

2×60 = 120 : double happyness in Voeten Residence

vrijdag, augustus 31st, 2007

Tomorrow my parents will celebrate both their 60th anniversery. The venue is the luxorious Rekkendonken in Liempde. No presents please, a donation to The Banyan Trust will do (ABN Amro 527017353, Diemen)

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Rainbow Trading: first release of an ecologically balanced economic system

zaterdag, augustus 25th, 2007

For countless years I’ve been working on that single sustainability project, now resulting in the first developer release of Rgbtrade. I will tell you how I got there.

RGBoog LogoBack in, say, 1994, I was already in the sustainability field (Duurzame Ontwikkeling in Dutch). I was an active member of a local youth group. As part of national NGO, we were invited for the yearly talk with the dutch minister of Environment, Margreeth de Boer. She was explainig to us what she would not preceed with the plans for an eco-tax system: too complicated for the lawyers. Now she would look at the possibility of eco-subsidy system. Well, I said - 22 yrs old, long hair, technical guy - , that will probably too difficult as well. Why not look at making the whole money system ecological?

Nobody knew what that meant: there were no words to follow those. Bad move Barry, how can you say something so weird? But here it finally is: the money system that is ecologically balanced by itself.

Yesterday, I posted the first developer release at sourceforge

So No, it is not finished yet. You can’t even place ads. But i fully trust this system will come to live.

To Lowlands

maandag, augustus 20th, 2007

Lowlands logoTo Lowlands and back.. don’t ask me, just see me!

Cornwall and Devon biketour Pics & Story

woensdag, augustus 15th, 2007

On this page page, the first part of the whole story!

The sea around Bude