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Fietsers zijn durfals in Tirana

Dewi van de Weerd,
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 […]

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Alaska is hot

Hugo Von Meijenfeldt,
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 […]

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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: […]

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Urban parks: protect, use and integrate

Hugo Von Meijenfeldt,
24 Apr 2015

Golden Gate Park (SF)

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 […]

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Mayors Signing

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 […]

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Short and tempestuous rain showers

Hugo Von Meijenfeldt,
24 Dec 2014

Classic Dutch clouds painted by Van Ruysdael

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 […]

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Don Quichote fighting a windmill

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 […]

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