Joop Schaminée
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Relay baton
- The Dutch equivalent of 'All good things come to an end' is 'Everything comes to an end'. The English variant has a somewhat wistful tone while the... -
Delta Plan for nature
- In January 1916, the Zuiderzee coast was flooded by a heavy storm tide, leading to the decision to close this body of water by constructing the... -
Agriculture and nature
- In the classic film Who's afraid of Virginia Woolf, Richard Burton and Elizabeth Taylor play a middle-aged couple who never stop quarreling. They are... -
Ownership
- This month the eight polar countries are getting together in the Arctic Council to discuss the future of the North Pole. More and more countries are... -
Forgotten vegetables
- I keep reading recently about 'forgotten vegetables'. Is this sudden interest in them a protest against creeping standardization and globalization or... -
Selling nature
- 'Dijksma puts brakes on sale of nature,' ran a headline in Dutch newspaper Trouw last week. -
Food chain
- As a child I loved going 'to the land' with my father. He had a small trailer attached to his bike that I was allowed to sit in. On the way back I sat... -
Growth
- The Netherlands is in the throes of its third recession in succession, according to the figures published by Dutch Central Bureau for Statistics. 0 -
Tribute
- It will be four years this spring since the death of Dutch columnist Martin Bril. Four years already; it is hard to believe. He wrote regular columns... -
Plus ça change in polder politics
- 'With hindsight we wouldn't have approved the transaction,' I read in relation to the fall of SNS bank. 'With hindsight' is an expression that has...