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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.

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 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.

In 2018, the idea arose to launch an English-language extension of the magazine De Correspondent, a digital platform for journalism: The Correspondent. Editor-in-chief Rob Wijnbergen and publisher Ernst-Jan Pfauth started campaigning and this became a success. Unfortunately, the magazine lost many subscribers during the coronapandemic and the expansion stopped on 1 January 2021 due to financial reasons.

Through citizen participation, the municipality of Amsterdam wanted to make policy-making more democratic. The municipality made plans for all sorts of subjects on which citizens could express their opinions, but citizens responded very little. They do not feel that they are really allowed to decide, but are only there to suggest ideas.

The municipality of Boxtel wanted to use a survey to find out what its residents thought about the tasks and finances of the municipality in the future. The survey that was sent out was too long and complicated, which meant that there were far too few responses to give a representative picture. The municipality is now thinking of other solutions, such as entering into discussions with residents and companies and collecting ideas via, for example, a suggestion box.