Dear Colleagues,

It’s the 1^st of May today, a holiday in my country – and an important one. Nevertheless, as I get older and perhaps a bit more rigid, I prefer to send out this newsletter on Friday morning : ) 

I still want to celebrate May 1^st properly, though, and so I suggest you read the following interview  between Dirk Holemans and Céline Marty in the Green European Journal,   “To save the planet, we must liberate time”: “…The capitalist emphasis on working hard as the key to success comfortably ignores an ugly reality: that the workforce faces worsening conditions and increasing precarity, while extractivism has brought the planet to the verge of ecological collapse. From the teachings of André Gorz to Gen Z’s quest for work-life balance, liberating time is at the centre of endeavours to achieve a better life – not just to consume freely as individuals, but to come together as a community.”   

A quote from the article: “….If we can put forward serious environmental...