Wim Harwig

Category: sustainable living

  • visited the farm again

    We went back to the farmhouse together. It’s like a museum of how the poor simple peasant  in Zeeland was working and living for the past 100 years ….     I was able to film the stable and got the impression as if the animals were just taken out. It would be the perfect decor for a movie about…

  • for sale

    Marjan told me that this farm-house was for sale and I was curious …    

  • food for thought

    I realize that it takes much time to think about future problems. There is a lot of life experience and historical knowledge needed to create a thorough picture of the opportunities. Just give it a try … http://www.visionsandpathways.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/05/Alexander_Disruptive-Innovation_290514.pdf http://www.visionsandpathways.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/05/Alexander_Disruptive-Innovation_290514.pdf

  • plum

    out of our own garden.

  • garden bench restoration

    We’ve  inherited an old garden bench from Marjan’s parents. A wrought iron frame with pine slats. The slats have perished long ago and the frame served as “decoration” in our garden. We decided to give it a third (fourth, fifth, sixth ; who knows ?) chance. The frame showed lots of earlier “restorations” 😉 I found out that hard wood has…

  • table

    The DIY-table found a new place in the garden of our youngest daughter.

  • biofuel

    Decades ago, my brother Henk produced biofuel in his backyard, in Cimahi Indonesia. I still have a sample of his biodiesel, that my other brother Jan gave me after one of his visits. Last week, I started my new job as senior-operator at the biofuel plant in Sluiskil. Life is full of surprises  😉 

  • upgrading

    upgrading old wood and old floor-tiles into a garden table.

  • a draw-well

    I’d like to have a draw-well in my garden, just for watering the flowers and to replenish the pond. Because I am interested in crafts, I started Googling and found almost nothing about digging a well. Only information about drilling them. So I started looking at our library and found all the info in WALD (ISBN 90-70845…

  • I did it my way …

    … but long after I made my experimental “reciprocal roof”, I found this informative video on the World Wide Web  😉  A lot more interesting videos “living in the Future” can be found here.

  • no dig !

  • any ideas or advice …

    I got the idea to make this as the roof of a shed in our garden. Does anyone have advice? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fhMgJoXohJY

  • Do you realize …

    that in proportion the atmosphere is as thin as the layer of dust on this globe ?

  • New report and Project MainStream Circular Economy

    “The circular economy is an opportunity industry can’t afford to miss,” said Sir Ian Cheshire, Group Chief Executive of Kingfisher. “It can drive our next generation of innovation and business growth, cushion our business from price volatility, provide us with competitive advantage, and help us build better relationships with customers and suppliers.” Spread the word…

  • simple living + resilience

    just for inspiration …. but where does my dog sleep ? …. a house without a dog is not a home 😉