Category: Energy & sustainability

Continue research; engage in long term thinking, reward behaviour towards a C neutral society.

I work on the impact of light on the brain. I am therefore sensitized to light pollution as a environmental disturbance and a huge waste of energy.

Concerns: Challenges regarding climate change, the right to food and food sovereignty are huge in Belgium. Since 1980 we have lost 68 % of our farms and the remaining farms are (...)

Biological invasions have major ecological and economic consequences, especially by disrupting ecosystem functioning and by homogenizing biodiversity. My research seeks to understand (...)

No serious fight for global non-heating without a fight against Pentagon-NATO and their wars for oil.

Individual awareness and efforts are a good thing, but they cannot resolve the ecological problem, and neither can science. The issue is a societal one.

Participation of the public at large to sustainability planning with scientists can enable major transformations in the field of mobility, housing and food.

Let’s try humility, foresight, responsibility and respect, like someone “who knows that the world is not given by his fathers, but borrowed from his children.” (W. Berry)

Main concerns: As a biologist, I am first concerned by the consequences on biodiversity of our human way of life. Our induction of climate changes (...)

Main concerns: We see a rise in gynaecological cancer in (very) young patient that we cannot fully explain actually - we aslo see, in Belgium especially, a important rise in (...)