Get your Green on April 18th, 2015 with Earth Day The Netherlands, Bezuidenhout Style


Are you interested in making some changes in your life to lessen your impact on the environment, but aren’t sure where to start? Do you live in The Hague area and wonder what sort of environmental non-profit organizations (stichtingen) are out there and what it is that they do? Do you want to learn aboutContinue reading “Get your Green on April 18th, 2015 with Earth Day The Netherlands, Bezuidenhout Style”

Do the Dutch Celebrate Earth Day?


The Dutch are busy with many aspects of environmentalism by default. Due to rising sea levels linked with climate change, they have become experts in water and flood plain management. (There are more reasons they have expertise in water, but that’s for another post). The Netherlands, with 17 million people in a country that’s about 1/10thContinue reading “Do the Dutch Celebrate Earth Day?”

Thank you all!


I would like to send my thanks into the world to all of the environmental groups that participated in Earth Day The Hague last night (see the list below), to the people who chose to spend their Tuesday evening with us learning about the history of Earth Day and the many eco-activities in The Hague.Continue reading “Thank you all!”

Earth Day in The Hague, Tuesday April 22nd, 2014 at the ABC Treehut


Every April 22nd, over a billion people in 190 countries take action for Earth Day, according to earthday.org. The Hague will also house a special Earth Day celebration this Tuesday, April 22nd, 2014, from 17:00-20:00 in a Treehut–in this case, The American Book Store’s ABC Treehut, located at Lange Poten 23 just off Het Plein.  Continue reading “Earth Day in The Hague, Tuesday April 22nd, 2014 at the ABC Treehut”