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Headline	Author	Published	Section
No (Dutch) nukes	David Roberts	24 Mar 2008	Gristmill
The Netherlands is opting for carbon sequestration and renewables over nuclear power. What does this mean? Why, clearly it reinforces what you have always said!
Topics: carbon sequestration, climate, energy, Netherlands, nuclear power, renewable energy (all these topics)

Salt for the Earth Energy could be harvested from mixing of fresh and salt water		19 Mar 2008	News
Posted at 1:28 PM on 19 Mar 2008 Through an osmotic process we don't pretend to understand, the mixing of fresh and salt water at the world's river mouths produces enough energy to feed 20 percent of the world's electricity demand, say Dutch scientists. Could we start running our gadgetry on salt power? Small projects in Norway and the Netherlands are testing out ways to harvest estuary energy, but membranes needed ...
Topics: energy, Netherlands, news, Norway, renewable energy (all these topics)

Send this to your local government and public works department Finally, something to do with all the damn asphalt	JMG	03 Jan 2008	Gristmill
This sounds like a great idea! Seems like every school has a ginormous parking lot, as does every city and county building -- and think of the asphalt in residential streets.
Topics: business, energy, innovation, Netherlands, solar thermal power (all these topics)

Climate change appraisal A new website assesses property risk	Maywa Montenegro	27 May 2007	Gristmill
Earlier this week I learned that I'm eligible, via my mother, for Dutch citizenship, which means I could potentially work, vote, and live in Holland without having to go through the hassle of visa applications. Before moving to a country that lies largely below sea level, though, I might want to check out Climate Appraisal, which, as its name suggests, is a website where you can size up the environmental hazards of your desired address. A joint project of a form ...
Topics: climate, climate change impacts, green living, Netherlands, websites (all these topics)

WSJ on bike living in Europe Excellent writing	David Roberts	07 May 2007	Gristmill
About eleventy-hundred people have written to draw my attention to an article in the Wall Street Journal about bike living in the Netherlands and Denmark. It's worthy of the attention -- it's rare to see biking taken so seriously and written about with such an eye for detail and color, at least in a U.S. paper. Hats off to Nancy Keates. I think WSJ free access ends after a week, so I'll post a big chunk of good excerpts below the fold. People bike while pregnant ...
Topics: bikes, Denmark, green living, Netherlands, placemaking (all these topics)

Third Time's the Charm Will the latest corporate sustainability reporting guidelines herald a brave new world?	John Elkington, Mark Lee	24 Oct 2006	Full Disclosure
By John Elkington and Mark Lee 24 Oct 2006
Topics: business, Full Disclosure, Netherlands (all these topics)

Who's on the Right Side of the Road Now? Brits change habits to save gasoline; Americans don't		01 May 2006	Daily Grist
Who's on the Right Side of the Road Now? Brits change habits to save gasoline; Americans don't Starting in 2008, new drivers in Britain will be tested not only on the anxiety-producing three-point turn, but also on their ability to drive in a manner that conserves gasoline. The country hopes to produce a new generation of eco-aware motorists who accelerate and brake smoothly and change gears ...
Topics: Netherlands, news, placemaking, United Kingdom, United States (all these topics)

Fiddler on the Hot Tin Roof Climate scientists grow more concerned as Rome burns, Nero fiddles		10 May 2005	Daily Grist
Fiddler on the Hot Tin Roof Climate scientists grow more concerned as Rome burns, Nero fiddles In most fields of science, lay opinion tends to be more alarmist than scientific opinion, says Carbon Mitigation Initiative codirector Robert Socolow. "But, in the climate case, the experts -- the people who work with the climate models every day, the people who do ice cores -- they are more concerned. They're goin ...
Topics: climate, Netherlands, news, United States (all these topics)

Dear Father, Who Art in Heaven, Polluted Be Thy Air Church air may be bad for believers' lungs		23 Nov 2004	Daily Grist
Dear Father, Who Art in Heaven, Polluted Be Thy Air Church air may be bad for believers' lungs Whatever its effects on your soul, spending lots of time in church may be bad for your lungs, according to a new study out of Maastricht University in the Netherlands. Researchers measured air quality in a small chapel and a large basilica and found levels of particulate matter up to 20 times higher than minimal European safety standar ...
Topics: air pollution, Netherlands (all these topics)

Nether Netherland		04 Oct 2002	Daily Grist
Nether Netherland For those in the know, the Netherlands are all but synonymous with responsible urban planning. From mass transit to mass cycling, from sustainable building to species protections, the country has raised the bar for the rest of the world. Now, though, politics in the Netherlands is shifting precipitously to the right -- and many fear that progressive urban planning could fall by the wayside. Low-income, state-subsi ...
Topics: Netherlands, placemaking (all these topics)

Dutch Treat The Netherlands tackles nitrogen pollution with a game	Erik Ness	10 May 2002	Main Dish
Confess: You've played more than one hand of solitaire on company time. Tetris anyone? Maybe you've even been a MYSTic or a QUAKEr. If you happen to work for the Dutch Ministry of the Environment, playing computer games is now part of your job description. Or at least playing a computer game -- the world's only computer game designed to solve the problem of nitrogen pollution. The Netherlands is home to i ...
Topics: air pollution, Netherlands, video games, water pollution (all these topics)

Dutch Treat		10 May 2002	Daily Grist

Topics: business, Netherlands, politics, pollution and waste (all these topics)

Un-Fortuyn-ate		09 May 2002	Daily Grist
Read more about: Netherlands Un-Fortuyn-ate Dutch prosecutors are accusing an animal rights activist with the murder on Monday of Pim Fortuyn, a right-wing candidate for prime minister. The suspect, Volkert van der Graaf, opposed factory farming and fur farms and worked for the little-known group Environment-Offensive, which uses legal tactics to advances its cause (rather than the in-your-face, direct-action methods of groups like the Animal Liberation Front). Roger Vleugels, a lawyer for the g ...
Topics: Netherlands (all these topics)

Sharri Baby		22 Apr 2002	Daily Grist
Sharri Baby After years of mistrust and fear, Albanians and Serbs are coming together over a common interest: protecting the environment. In a project funded by the Norwegian and Dutch governments, environmental groups in Kosovo are setting up an electronic network to enable the former enemies to share resources and information on ...
Topics: air pollution, deforestation, European Union, green living, Kosovo, Netherlands, Norway, pollution and waste, wilderness (all these topics)

Sony-side Down		06 Dec 2001	Daily Grist
Sony-side Down Sony said yesterday that it would replace the peripheral cables for 1.3 million PlayStation 1 consoles destined for sale in Europe, in response to environmental concerns raised by the Dutch government earlier this week. A European Union rule forbids the sale of products that contain more than 0.01 percent cadmium; the Dutch say the cables pose a health threat because they contain between three to 20 times ...
Topics: European Union, health, Netherlands (all these topics)

Monkey Business		13 Nov 2001	Daily Grist
Monkey Business Illegal trafficking in wildlife has become Brazil's third-most profitable illegal activity after arms and drugs smuggling, generating up to $1 billion annually. An estimated 38 million wild animals are stolen from the country's forests every year, according to a new report by the National Network Against the Trafficking of Wild Animals (RENCTAS). Eighty-two percent ...
Topics: Belgium, Brazil, France, Germany, Netherlands, United States, wildlife (all these topics)

Holland Daze		16 Oct 2001	Daily Grist
Holland Daze An effort to make Dutch farms friendly to native plants and animals has failed, according to a study published this week in the journal Nature. Fields managed according to an environmental protection agreement were no richer in plant and bird species than those farmed conventionally. David Gibbons, of the U.K.'s Royal Society for the Protection of Birds, said he wasn't surprised by ...
Topics: European Union, food and agriculture, Netherlands, wildlife (all these topics)

That Sinking Feeling Climate talks collapse over carbon sinks, and Americans just don't see the problem	Bill McKibben	27 Nov 2000	Main Dish
Depending on how you spin it, the collapse of the climate negotiations in The Hague, Netherlands, could leave you confident that much progress has been made, despairing that a Bush presidency dooms the future of new talks, or convinced that this is simply a problem too big for human beings to get their heads around. I think, though, that it really leaves us in p ...
Topics: climate, energy, Netherlands, United States (all these topics)

Planet of the Aches The U.S. balks at a global solution to global warming	Bill McKibben	22 Nov 2000	Main Dish
THE HAGUE, Netherlands If you walk straight out the front door of this convention hall and skirt the sandbagged dike that activists built during a weekend demonstration, you find yourself at the front door of a squat building with a U.N. flag flying from a pole. Enter it (past a pair of metal detectors) and you find yourself in the chambers of the International Criminal Tribunal for Yugoslavia, ...
Topics: Bill McKibben, Dispatches, international politics, Kyoto Protocol, Netherlands (all these topics)

Hostel Takeover Greenpeace student activists stir things up at The Hague	Bill McKibben	21 Nov 2000	Main Dish
THE HAGUE, Netherlands The Hague, with its constant drizzle, qualifies as one of the gloomiest cities I've ever visited, and the tense, uncertain busyness of the convention center doesn't add much to the atmosphere. But a 20-minute train ride from the hall brings you to the one truly hopping spot in town, a youth hostel that has been taken over by Greenpeace for the duration of the conference. S ...
Topics: Bill McKibben, climate change adaptation, Dispatches, grassroots activism, Netherlands, politics (all these topics)

A Hague Sense of Unease Will the rest of the world bend to U.S. pressure to weaken Kyoto?	Bill McKibben	20 Nov 2000	Main Dish
THE HAGUE, Netherlands An hour's drive from the crowded convention hall where international negotiators are toiling to reach some agreement on fighting climate change, you can visit one of the enormous storm surge barriers the Dutch have built to keep the North Sea at bay. Comprising hundreds of thousands of tons of concrete and steel, they stand guard at the river mouths to pre ...
Topics: Bill McKibben, climate change adaptation, Dispatches, Kyoto Protocol, Netherlands (all these topics)

Everything But the Carbon Sink Climate negotiators in The Hague have their work cut out for them	Bill McKibben	17 Nov 2000	Main Dish
THE HAGUE, Netherlands This month's international climate negotiations in The Hague, though full of sound and fury, are about one thing and one thing only: using policy in an attempt to bridge the wide gap between science and politics. If you keep that in mind, you'll have some sense of whether the session is a success or not -- a better sense, probably, than you'll get f ...
Topics: Bill McKibben, climate change adaptation, Dispatches, international politics, Kyoto Protocol, Netherlands (all these topics)

Paper Chase	Josh Sevin	02 Feb 2000	Counter Culture
a 50 percent increase in worldwide paper consumption is expected by 2010 115 billion sheets of paper are used annually for personal computers 700 pounds of paper are consumed by the average American each year 10,000 trees are cut down annually in China to make holiday cards 3 cubic yards of landfill space can be saved by one ton of recycled paper 77 percent of paper is recycled in the Netherlands 67 percent of paper is recycled in Germany 52 percent of paper ...
Topics: China, Germany, green living, Japan, Netherlands, recycling, United States (all these topics)

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