Tag: Netherlands
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The Netherlands Joins Fossil Fuel Divestment Movement, Ends Public Financing for Coal
This week the Netherlands announced that would join the U.S., United Kingdom and others in ending support for public financing for new coal-fired power plants is a good sign for the growing fossil fuel divestment movement. “This is another sign that the coal industry is on its last legs,” said Tim Ratcliffe, of 350.org, which…
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De-Extinction: If We Could Revive a Species, Does It Mean We Should?
If we truly want our relation to nature to be “something other than tragic,” what that will require, most of all, is for us to finally, belatedly get good at behaving like something less than gods.
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The Global Progress of Composting Food Waste
As municipal food composting programs spread across North America and Europe, no city faces a more daunting task than …
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After The Expo, A Susatainable City Proposed For Almere
One Dutch city in the running to host the 2022 Floriade World Horticultural Expo proposes a sustainable expo site that would become a permanent development. Thank you for your interest in this story. To read the rest of it, please visit EarthTechling….
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The Netherlands’ Big Orange Expo Pavilion Is All Green
The Netherlands’ National Pavilion at the Floriade 2012 Expo makes use of sustainably harvested wood and passive solar design — and resembles a giant egg. Thank you for your interest in this story. To read the rest of it, please visit EarthTechling. …