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Biomass plants

Climate

Government

Biomass power plants: redundant or inevitable?
With biomass plants, the government wanted to ensure that the climate targets would be met. The government set aside 10 billion euros for the construction of 628 biomass plants. Objections to the biomass plants soon arose: they would not be as CO2-neutral as was assumed and there would be more useful ways to use the biomass.

Food

Icecream

The first popsicle
In 1905, the popsicle was invented by eleven-year-old Frank Epperson. He made a drink with water and some soda powder that he stirred through with a stick. Because his mother told him to go to sleep, he left the drink. When he woke up the next morning, it had frozen and the drink with the stick in it was frozen too. This was the first popsicle.

Columbus

History

Discovery journey

Columbus discovers America
Columbus was looking for a faster sailing route to the Dutch East Indies. He planned to sail there via the West. With the financial support of the Spanish Queen Isabella, his ships left for the West, but instead of finding a new route to the Dutch East Indies there, he found the undiscovered continent of America.
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Buildings

Bijlmermeer

Bijlmermeer
In the 1960s, the municipality of Amsterdam came up with an ambitious plan to create a new residential area in the Bijlmermeer with a strict division between living and working. Attracting residents was difficult because of the bad reputation that the Bijlmer acquired, the lack of facilities in the area and the competition from single-family dwellings elsewhere in the region, which kept Amsterdam families away.
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Animal products

Farmers

Animal protection

Better-Life certificate
It is more expensive for farmers and slaughterhouses to adapt to the certificate's rules than to produce animal products through their existing methods.

Dutch government

ICT

Huge cost and time overruns on ICT projects in the Dutch government
An analysis by the FD shows that large ICT projects by the Dutch government are still seriously overrunning: cost overruns amount to an average of 36% and the average overrun is 37%. The FD looked at 125 large projects for which the original budget was 2.5 billion euros and the expected costs have now risen to 3.5 billion.