Environmental Supply Chain Risk Radar, parrots, mother and Mugabe

Nobody: “Arjen, you need to add more visuals.” Me: “Okay” how it started I deployed v0.1 of my Environmental Supply Chain Risk Radar, a quarterly decision radar for navigating environmental risk in global supply chains. product page best on a laptop but works on mobile as well Imagine you’re an understaffed sustainability manager with a limited budget at a large corporation. You need to keep an overview of everything “sustainable” for multiple global commodity supply chains, multiple environmental risks, upcoming rules and regulations, latest industry best practices and responses and a plethora of intelligence providers. That was impossible. Until now. ...

September 27, 2026 · 4 min · 745 words · Arjen Vrielink

Launch Day: thishollow.earth Is Live

Launch time. Technology, Human Systems, Environment. I soft launched the new version of thishollow.earth today. New theme, new content, new streams, same me. new landing page familiar blog stream (this newsletter) new products & concepts stream new solutions page, outlining the 3 pillars (technology, human systems, environment), each with their own product show case CYNTHIA, BERT, WALTER new about page with profile, expertise,experience and how to get in touch new tech notes stream long form essay stream (TBA, in parallel from medium) scalpel stream (TBA) It’s far from finished. It’s full of errors and mistakes and omissions. But it’s something, it’s good enough and it’s live. This is part of the bootstrapping ThisHollowEarth. After bootstrapping, I will start building the products, setup a Go To Market (GTM) plan, focus on branding, visuals and design, do optimisation / tweaking / security / legal / finance and then rinse and repeat. ...

September 9, 2026 · 3 min · 441 words · Arjen Vrielink

WALTER - Environmental Supply Chain Risk Radar

Walter a quarterly decision radar for navigating environmental risk in global supply chains. Walter Environmental risk in commodity supply chains is hard to understand. Regulations are emerging and changing. Climate and ecological conditions are shifting. New satellite, geospatial and AI capabilities are producing more data. Commodity supply chains increasingly intersect with questions of water, forests, biodiversity, land degradation and ecosystem resilience. At the same time, companies, investors and consultants are being asked to turn all of this complexity into practical decisions. ...