365 Sustainable Decisions Challenge

Today, I was on the Spanish Talk Radio Europe! I spoke with Giles Brown about my latest book "A Guide to a Healthier Planet 2" and how we can contribute to positive change based on science, related to climate change, pollution, and biodiversity. You can listen to the conversation here (in English): https://d11n7da8rpqbjy.cloudfront.net/erlijn/30717163_172771248385820240930-Talk_Radio_Europe_in_Spain.mp3 You can find the books we are talking about here: https://www.sustainabledecisions.eu/guide-to-a-healthier-planet

 🍲 I'm sure we have many things in common, including that we both want to have enough to eat to survive. Sound simple right? 🌿Well, with the growing global population, this is getting a lot harder. Luckily, many clever people have come up with solutions to improve food production, for example by reducing waste, increasing yields, growing other products, just to name a few. ⚡ But this solution tops it all in my opinion: 🧬learn more about the #CRISPR/Cas9 that allows deactivating genes that reduce plant resistance or triggering genes that improve resistance: https://app.wedonthavetime.org/posts/3e866e52-d025-46a0-b318-96b548c60d8a?utm_source=url-copy&utm_medium=wdht-web-app-share&utm_campaign=erlijng

 🎉 Exciting News! I'm thrilled to announce my latest book: Volume 2 of "A Guide to a Healthier Planet: Scientific Insights and Actionable Steps to Resolve Climate, Pollution, and Biodiversity Issues"! 📗 And as I'm very grateful that Dmitry Mariyasin, Deputy Executive Secretary at the United Nations Economic Commission for Europe wrote the foreword, I'm super happy that I was able to give him the book in person last week (see picture)! 📚 https://www.erlijn.nl/link/prod.php?l=agtahp2 🌱 This book is all about bridging the gap between scientific insights on pressing environmental issues and empowering everyday people to take action. It delivers fascinating facts about #nature and #sustainability, inspiring to make a positive impact on our planet. 📖 All chapters cover new topics compared to Volume 1, bringing together further open-access research articles rarely discussed in popular discourse. It delves into crucial concepts, unveils far-reaching consequences, and...

 It was great yesterday to speak again at the United Nations during the Sustainable Energy Week! And fun! This time, I explained why Germany has been very slow compared to other European countries with implementing smart meter technology. #SmartMeters are critical for today's #energyGrid in allowing households to supply electricity as well. Apart from technical, organizational, economic, and regulatory barriers, behavioral barriers played an important role as well. These behavioral barriers include:  - lack of motivation: individuals may have had a lack of intrinsic motivation, may have experienced high costs of change, and may not have felt that this technology would benefit them - lack of perceived ability: individuals may have had a fear of failure when adopting the technology or have had limiting beliefs about their (in)ability to use this technology - limited #environmentalism: individuals may not have had clear positively formulated goals about how they want to contribut...

Do you think that Germany is one of the European countries that have adopted smart meters fastest or slowest? I'm looking forward to sharing with you the answer during my presentation at the Sustainable Energy Week, organized by the UNECE.  I will also explain what impacted the adoption of this critical technology in the energy transition and what lessons we can learn from it. Learn more about the event and register here: https://unece.org/sustainable-energy/events/unece-sustainable-energy-week-2024