Archive for category Climate
Fietsers zijn durfals in Tirana
Dewi van de Weerd, Albania
29 Jan 2017
Als ik op de fiets aan kom rijden, hartje winter in meditteraan Tirana, kijken de bewakers van de ambassade verbaasd op. “Respect”, roept éen van hen. Of het niet veel […]
Alaska is hot
Hugo Von Meijenfeldt, United States
21 Sep 2015
After two years in office, I finally had the opportunity to visit the northernmost state in my jurisdiction: Alaska. Although everyone advised me to see the countryside, I only had […]
Approaches to drought offered by a wet country
Hugo Von Meijenfeldt, United States
4 Sep 2015
Normally my blog is about something that happened last week. This time it is about something that happened in the last 5 years and is still going on in California: […]
Urban parks: protect, use and integrate
Hugo Von Meijenfeldt, United States
24 Apr 2015
Some cities do not have parks, and believe it or not people still choose to live there anyway. Last week, City Parks Alliance organized an international conference, “Greater & Greener […]
Connecting the rivers of Los Angeles and Rotterdam
Hugo Von Meijenfeldt, United States
4 Mar 2015
Mayor Garcetti of LA and Mayor Aboutaleb of Rotterdam sign the River Agreement On the borders of “El Rio de Nuestra Señora La Reina de Los Ángeles de Porciúncula”, Spanish […]
Short and tempestuous rain showers
Hugo Von Meijenfeldt, United States
24 Dec 2014
Casualties, damage and long power outages; the rain and storm that hit Northern California last week was all over the news. I work in one of the few offices prepared […]
Climate Change skeptics now fight windmills
Hugo Von Meijenfeldt, United States
19 Dec 2014
I visited Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory and its famous climate scientist Dr. Ben Santer last week. He has been honored many times for his 30 years of statistical analysis that […]
