And then we ran out...
30-08-2010
August 21st marked an unfortunate milestone: it was the day in which we exhausted our ecological budget for the year. On that day, humanity demanded all the ecological services – from filtering CO2 to producing the raw ma..

15-08-2010

Five questions on sustainability
10-08-2010
Marc recently gave a short interview to Alyssa Farrell, Marketing Manager for Sustainability Solutions at SAS. The interview zooms in on Marc's experiences as sustainability pioneer and on his personal dilemmas. The interview ..

Global Conference on Sustainability and Transparency
02-06-2010
From May 26th to 28th the biannual GRI (Global Reporting Initiative) conference was held in Amsterdam. 1200 participants from 71 nations listened to a top selection of international speakers from the scientific, political and bu..

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What do emmissions targets mean for the world?
18-12-2009
To a lot of people climate change, and the current negotiations on this, is abstract. Without wanting to give a elaborate explanation about the scientific basis and underlying mechanismes (if do you wish to know more, do contact u..

icentials at several events Beat the Heat Now
17-12-2009
As part of the global day of action on climate change the Dutch 'Beat the Heat Now' event on December 12th was focussed on a strong climate agreement in Copenhagen. Activities were organized in a number of cities and at the end ..

GreenFinger campaign at Copenhagen
17-12-2009
One year after the launch the GreenFinger campaign is reaching its summum in Copenhagen. The goal of the campaign, to give a strong visual signal which shows negotiators and politicians that many world citizens support a strong cl..

Lecture at National Sustainability Convention
14-11-2009
The 10th edition of the Dutch 'National Sustainability Convention' was held on November 11th. This yearly event is the largest in its kind and showcases many aspects of sustainability. Numerous business cases and new development..

GreenFinger gets support from UN executive
12-11-2009
icentials actively supports the GreenFinger campaign which will reach its ultimate goal at the UNFCCC summit in Copenhagen coming december. We will display all the thousands of pictures that have been send in and give a clear visu..

Partnership MVO Nederland
19-08-2009
icentials has become a partner of MVO Nederland. A logical step because our missions are very simular and we both work on the opportunities that arise from sustainable entrepeneurship. We each in our own way help businesses a..

New wake-up call in the making?
30-07-2009
In 2006 the public awareness on climate change was boosted by Al Gore's 'The unconvenient truth'. Since then governments and businessess have started to some (cautious) steps to head for a more sustainable society. Yet real imp..

Doing more in less time?
13-07-2009
While the melting rate of the North Pole sea ice is above average yet again this summer the most important world leaders, who gathered for the G8 summit in L'Aquila, have missed another opportunity to make a step in the right dir..

Investments in renewables for the first time larger then fossil energy
23-06-2009
In 2008 the total global investments in renewable energy were greater then those in fossil energy. A total of 140 billion dollars was invested in sustainable energy production against 110 billion dollars in traditional, fossil ene..

Interesting meeting in Breda
06-06-2009
Thursday June 4th we were invited at the entrepeneurslunch "Sustainable Entrepeneurship" in Breda. This lunch was organized by MVO Nederland, MKB Nederland, Energiecentrum and E.on. It united a select group of ..

Winner of CoolSchools Rotterdam announced
03-06-2009
Last Tuesday we visited the winner of CoolSchools Rotterdam 2008/9 together with Wiert-Jan de Raaf, Program Director of Rotterdam Climate Initiative. Group 7 of the Montessorischool Kralingen has been the most succesfull in selli..

The 2 degrees threshold
22-04-2009
For a number of years now, it has been clear that the world must not warm by more than 2 degrees, on average, in order to prevent serious disruption of our climate. If this threshold is exceeded, this will not only lead to worldwi..

Icentials and Wij zijn Koel formalise their cooperation
02-04-2009
Synergy is often the best key to success. Partly for this reason, we have decided to implement further the informal cooperation with Wij zijn Koel, and set it down in writing. Wij zijn Koel was established last year by Aart van..

CoolSchools leads to a great deal of enthusiasm
24-03-2009
In recent weeks, we have been hard at work on the realisation of the CoolSchools programme in Rotterdam. We have been teaching lessons in Rotterdam primary schools about the warming of the Earth, why this is important and what you..

Interview in Volkskrant Banen
18-03-2009
In a recent interview in Volkskrant Banen, Marc makes it clear that polar travel teaches a person more than simply enduring harsh conditions. It is apparent from this interview that such a project has many learning moments, which ..

icentials in the news
09-02-2009
The telephone rings on the morning of Thursday 5 February. The editorial board of the NOS; whether they can have our reaction for the NOS News at 3 to the visit of Crown Prince Willem Alexander and Maxima to Antarctica. They ar..

We are on the right path
26-01-2009
We are currently consuming 84 million barrels of oil, 8 billion cubic meters of natural gas and 8.5 million tonnes of coal in order to meet our energy needs. And this is per day. Our demand for fossil fuels is bringing us closer a..