CURRENT MISSION

To promote further awareness on climate change. To put pressure on local politicians to adapt more radical climate policies.

ABOUT ME

Friendly, little bit dreamy person. Usually cheerful/satisfied mood. Prefers a good conversation with one person above superficial chitchat in groups. As a couchsurfer, quite open and communicative. Friends are few but very good.

Basically I am a researcher. I like to dig deeply into a subject. My main interests are a large range of subjects regarding human society, human mind and human destiny. Especially the great world problems. I am also studying buddhism and somewhat trying to follow buddhist practices. I also play the piano quite nicely, make long bicycle trips and go to parties.

De CS cliche 'easygoing'certainly fits in with me. Often people are wondering why I never have a quarrel with someone or why I am not more involved in social drama or gossip. Things like making a career or getting rich never quite interested me. After I finished my study in history, I didn't know what to do. At a certain moment they told me I should do a course bookkeeping, which I did. Now I have one of the most boring jobs you can imagine, and lots of time to do other things.

In many ways I am ridiculously lucky. When I look at the situation in the world, I am heart-broken to know that things are going to be so much harder for future generations. A few years ago,I started to read about climate change. I was shocked to learn that things are so bad. Nobody seemed to care much about it. It started to feel more and more absurd an unaccepable to me that (at that time) the dutch press paid hardly any attention to it.

One night, I spontaneously wrote an angry letter to the most important news agency in Holland, and sent it to friends. One friend adviced me to write more articles. This culminated in the website www.klimaatinzicht.nl . I also came into contact with a brand new and uncorrupted climate movement, Fossil Free (dutch brach of 350.org). Since then I have been very busy with climate activism. I became a hard working man after all ;-).

Important values: respect, honesty, friendship. Freedom. Trying to think bigger. Trying to look deeper then thinking. Good heart and compassion for all beings including animals.

PHILOSOPHY

Though I do not have many answers, I often ask myself a few simple but fundamental questions. I would be willing to share these questions with you and have a good conversation about them when you visit me.

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

HOW I PARTICIPATE IN COUCHSURFING

I generally open my account during a few weeks a year. Then there is a fair chance that I am able to host you if I like your profile :-) I am also interested in surfing when I am on vacation.

COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE

May 2009 : Surfed Clotilde from Paris, France
February 2010: Surfed Cerise Bustarret from Paris
February 2010: Surfed Sajede Sharifi from Paris
July 2010: Surfed Valérie Auguste from Paris, France
July 2010: Surfed Eduardo in Barcelona, Spain

June 2010: Hosted Lu Yuan and her friend from China
June 2010: Hosted Daniel (Bworm) from Sao Paulo, Brazil
June 2010: Hosted Eric Cantona and Barbara Barbara from Poland
June 2010: Hosted Sara Monticelli from Italian-Switzerland and Jordi from Barcelona
June 2010: hosted Shuk Pik Yau (Crystal) from Hong Kong
July 2010: hosted Genevieve and Alexandre Mainville from Montreal, Quebec, Canada
July 2010: hosted Aamir Azhar and his two friends from Mau, India

Interests

To wonder to what extent happiness and suffering come from our own mind, and where humanity is going too...

I also like to play piano, travel, visit friends, view movies, listen to music, read about history and religion, and doing silly things behind my computer, and meditate

• animals
• meditation
• movies
• traveling
• music
• piano
• surfing
• history
• religion

Music, Movies, and Books

Movies: El Topo from Jodorowsky - The Godfather - The Elephant Man

Music: although there are many forms of music which I vaguely like or dislike, my mind is living in Mozart, Beethoven, Bach, Chopin ....

Books: I read books about history, politics, environment, buddhism. I am to lazy to read novels because if I want to relax I prefer movies.

PS: If anyone wants to know more about the failings of modernday hyper-capitalism, I can recommend the book '23 Things They Don't Tell You About Capitalism by Ha-Joon Chang'.

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

In july 1990, I visited amazing teachings from a Tibetan lama who spent more then 20 years in retreat. He was very kind, wise, compassionate, free from hangups, natural, unselfish.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=05x5jRn7ErA

Teach, Learn, Share

I am a climate activist. I have created a website in dutch about all aspects of climate change, what can be done about it, and why this is not happening.

http://www.klimaatinzicht.nl/

Soon I will publish the first 5 chapters in english.

Countries I’ve Visited

Andorra, Austria, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Canada, Croatia, Czech Republic, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Iceland, India, Ireland, Italy, Latvia, Liechtenstein, Lithuania, Malta, Mexico, Monaco, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Russian Federation, San Marino, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Turkey, United Kingdom, United States

Countries I’ve Lived In

Netherlands

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