Tag: Amsterdam
Grocery store opens world’s first plastic-free aisle
This comes at a time when unnecessary plastic pollution is a growing global concern that is affecting our oceans, habitats and food chains.
This company is turning plastic waste into public furniture
The New Raw's project, "Print Your City!" calls on citizens to support turning their discarded plastic into furniture by combining 3D printing with recycling.
The Dutch city that offered refugees a permanent home
When 500 refugees arrived in their community, residents of Zaandam were wary. But by the time the newcomers could apply for residency status in Europe, neighbors didn’t want them to leave.
A Century of Women Working for Peace
Deeply committed peace activists from around the globe gathered in The Hague, Amsterdam this week marking the 100th anniversary of the founding of WILPF, the Women’s International League for Peace and Freedom, where women have been working for peace for more than a century.
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Elected Democrats are conformist enablers of Biden for 2024
Alarm bells among pro-Biden pundits have finally begun to break the political sound barrier. So why is it quiet on Capitol Hill on the Democratic front?
Missouri set to execute Marcellus Williams despite DNA evidence proving innocence—again
Unless we reform this corrupt system, racist politicians will be rewarded with higher political offices–for–”frying a black man.”
Global leaders plead for peace in Ukraine at UN
Altogether, leaders from at least 50 countries spoke up for peace in Ukraine at the 2023 UN General Assembly.
Research expedition discovers extensive emissions of methane from bottom of Baltic Sea
The research project aimed "to expand knowledge about methane and its sources and sinks in the oxygen-free environments in the deeper parts of the Baltic Sea."
Supreme Court could trigger hundreds of billions in corporate tax cuts ‘with the stroke...
"The Roberts Court could decide with the stroke of a pen to simultaneously forgive big business decades of tax dues."