In recent weeks, sustainability and economics editors have examined the idea of green growth. In this episode they talk about what they discovered.
A robot: this is how editor Jelle Brandsma sees green growth. This is Paul and Sandra Andela’s robot machine: an invention that can remove weeds from plants with greater precision and speed than human fingers. And without agricultural poisons.
Are these innovations primarily a way to make money? Or can ecology and growth go hand in hand? Editor Hans Nauta met Minister Sophie Hermans on a boat and immediately asked her.
The climate crisis, the energy crisis, the nitrogen crisis: they may get you down, but we don’t. Each week we address one question, as part of the big picture: a planet that will last a few more millennia, with people on it: how will we get there? Nienke Zoetbrood, Cecilia Adorée and Sanne Toebes accompany you on the climate issue.
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Can a robotic machine ensure green growth? This is how it seems in Paul Andela’s workshop.
“It’s just a green sauce,” Winne van Woerden tells economist Barbara Baarsma about green growth.
