accurately measure their dependence and impact on natural capital. This will help create a more sustainable society.

Setting up coalitions of companies to speed up the deployment of natural capital accounting in certain economic sectors. Part of the approach is creating community platforms on natural capital, where challenges and experiences are shared and matched.

Further development of data and tools for businesses (especially small and medium-sized enterprises)

…Building on two local pilots and a pilot for the province South-Limburg, Statistics Netherlands (CBS) and Wageningen University started a project in 2016 to develop a system of National Natural Capital Accounts, following the guidelines of the UN System of Environmental Economic Accounts – Experimental Ecosystem Accounting…

The project is looking primarily at the ecosystems part of natural capital: woodland, heathland, but also ecosystems inthe Internet. Months ago I saw a story claiming that cats could cause schizophrenia. A parasite in their poop—was that it? Somehow this little bugger makes its way from sandbox to your brain, where it chews apart gray matter until you start hearing voices and imagining that the bus driver is tracking your movements. The idea that cats could literally drive me insane seemed too absurd, like a conspiracy to me, something cooked up by the Audubon Society, American Kennel Club, or some Internet meme-savvy pharmaceutical company.

"No, we do not accept research money from bird people, or dog people, or drug companies" says Fuller Torrey, a psychiatrist at Stanley Medical Research Institute, and one of the leading researchers behind the cat-poop-makes-you-crazy theory. His story checked out.

Torrey started investigating