Do my actions actually make a difference or are we just doomed to go extinct anyway and should we not bother anymore?
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What If Women had the Power?
This fall at SG, we’re going to find out what the world would look like if women had the power. We’re going to erase the dominant patriarchal perspective for a moment and substitute it with an alternate reality. What would it look like if the tables were turned?
If you build it, will they come?
Introducing The Nook: our new interactive event space in the TUD Library.
Reparations for slavery: one of the most divisive topics of our time?
For this year’s Keti Koti, commemorating the abolition of slavery, join the societal debate: are apologies enough, or should we pay financial compensation?
Getting uncomfortable: a brainstorm on altruism, privilege and biases
‘Honestly, I just thought it was a cool project when I read the article. Not for a moment did I recognize the frame of white saviours,’ says Silke, a master’s student Industrial Ecology. Her comment opens our brainstorm.
Jellyfish Conversations In The Library: An Equal Exchange?
Researchers and staff from the TU Delft are dragging a virtual jellyfish out of an ocean of data. But why? Can humans understand what it says? Will it speak at all?
Activism & Academia: Interview with TU Delft Sustainability Coordinator Andy van den Dobbelsteen
Find out how TU Delft Sustainability Coordinator Andy van den Dobbelsteen navigates the challenges of being a scientist and an activist in the middle of a climate crisis.
Why we should take care of trees
I’ll get straight to the point: as a city dweller, I don’t have much of a connection with trees. And especially not when there are a lot of them together.
How fear can help us make choices
Why are we afraid? A simple question, but the answer is – as is often the case with philosophers – not so simple.
An Attempt at Convergence: A Review of the “Diverging Perspectives” Sustainability Symposium
Did you miss the Sustainability Symposium? Not a problem! Read the review by guest columnist Mark Musa Mitrani (BSc).