Early warning and the restructuring directive: could directors learn from insolvency practitioners?

Could the contribution of insolvency practitioners in creating early warning tools help company directors identify the moment in time when they should take measures to avoid insolvency?

Jessie Pool • July 04, 2019

The courage to choose the right direction

The fight-or-flight response is particularly strong in the populist movements, but it takes us in the wrong direction. Choosing the right direction is a matter of being open, vulnerable and courageous.

Wim Bonis • May 29, 2019 • 2 comments

From petition to regulation: a deposit return system for small plastic bottles

Last week the Dutch Parliament discussed the proposal for a mandatory deposit return system for small plastic bottles. After more than 25 years of dialogue with the industry, it seems that this might be the only solution to tackle plastic pollution.

Esther Kentin, Emily den Boer and Louise Floris • April 25, 2019

The call for more external order and control

In the prevailing Western view, order is something that must be imposed externally to reduce or end conflict. But there is another order, a natural one that shapes us and the world around us into self-organized wholes that can heal and transform us.

Wim Bonis • April 17, 2019 • 1 comment

Why should non-human animals be included in our moral circle?

Our moral circle should include every being that can suffer, every being that is sentient. As far as our current knowledge reaches, most animal species have the ability to suffer.

Bart Collard • April 04, 2019 • 1 comment

Khomeini’s invention of theoterrorism

On February 14, 1989, Ayatollah Khomeini issued a death sentence on Salman Rushdie because, in Khomeini’s opinion, Rushdie had criticised Islam’s sacred icons. Khomeini introduced a new terrorist tactic, “theoterrorism".

Paul Cliteur • February 19, 2019

Extending Rights and Growing Responsibilities

The environmental lawyer David Boyd has written a very interesting book about the gradual process of extending the legal concept of ‘rights’ to the non-human world: not only to animals, but also – for instance – to trees, rivers and whole eco-systems.

Wim Bonis • February 06, 2019

Indigenous injustice and the power of the land

David Peat argues that Native American and Western cultures have clashed from the beginning. The differences form the basis of disputes about land ownership, the outcome of which we all know, and even touches on the current environmental crisis.

Wim Bonis • December 19, 2018

Healing the planet by changing the underlying story

The recent UN climate report and the Urgenda appeal case reflect hopeful developments with regard to dealing with climate change. But there are alternative views, reaching beyond the emphasis on numbers and statistics, that deserve attention as well.

Wim Bonis • November 02, 2018

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