Dirk Holemans
Urban storyteller - Honorary President Green European Foundation - coordinator Think Tank Oikos - advisor - public speaker
Co-author ‘Freedom & Security’ ‘Dare to Care’ ‘Enough’
#commons #wellbeingeconomy #imagination HOPE IS ACTION
- Reposted by Dirk HolemansLondon now. Country next. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
- Reposted by Dirk Holemans"Two compelling recent books provide different but complementary answers to what should organise our economies when growth is no longer possible or desirable: care" - read my review of @timjackson.org.uk 'The Care Economy' & @ecodenker.bsky.social 'Dare to Care' www.linkedin.com/pulse/from-g...
- Reposted by Dirk HolemansThinking of European Commission staff behind the Farm to Fork Strategy when they'll read the new #EATLancet report.... They had it all right, and it's a real shame the EU's blueprint for healthy, fair and environmentally friendly #FoodSystems was derailed. www.theguardian.com/environment/...
- Reposted by Dirk HolemansOverwinning! www.omroepwest.nl/misdaad/5018...
- Reposted by Dirk HolemansClimate scientist Michael E. Mann @michaelemann.bsky.social has a message for younger scientists: Don't give up. "Be part of this fight for what's right, for science, for reason, for fact-based discourse and policy making."
- Reposted by Dirk HolemansCrucial reporting on the UK's new, Blackstone-backed data centre that, in "limited circumstances", will run on a fleet of 580 diesel generators.
- Reposted by Dirk HolemansCentral Bank of Denmark: "extreme weather conditions linked to climate change, such as droughts and floods, have reduced global food production", resulting in "large increases in food prices (that) are driving up inflation" www.nationalbanken.dk/en/news-and-...
- Wat doet Vooruit in deze regering? Internationale solidariteit afschaffen… Vlaanderen stopt ontwikkelingssamenwerking, oppositie: "Zoveelste aanval op factuur gezinnen" vrtnws.be/p.6KebQDyNW
- Reposted by Dirk Holemans‼️ABSOLUTELY UNBELIEVABLE TROPICAL NIGHT AT 1800M IN AUSTRIA Min 20.4 Hahnenkamm Never happened 250+ years of Austria history ANYTIME ANYWHERE No summer heat wave ever made what happened today. On Sept 20th! One of the most extreme event Europe has ever seen. Absolutely historic
- Reposted by Dirk Holemans“A very warm start to September, once again. The average temperature in Finland from 1 to 13 September was 15.0 degrees, which is only 0.1 degrees lower than the record set in 2024. The start of September 2023 will be the third.“
- Reposted by Dirk HolemansThink about all those people in the West, in liberal political and media circles, on this hellsite, who insisted repeatedly for months that Hamas was the obstacle to a ceasefire deal. Have nothing but contempt for them and never listen to them ever again.
- Reposted by Dirk HolemansIk heb nu in elk journaal (NOS en RTL) gezien hoe Amerika rouwt over Kirk, maar hierover⤵️ nooit iets gehoord.. Terwijl Kirk voor mij net zo’n onbekende was als Hortman. Hadden onze media niet beter aandacht kunnen besteden aan hoe Trump deze moord misbruikt om Amerika nóg verder te spljten.
- Football is about respect and fairness. Not sports-washing genocide. Italy is set to host Israel for the World Cup qualifiers while people in Gaza starve and die. Sign now to demand FIFA and UEFA ban Israel from international football! #banisrael action.wemove.eu/sign/2025-09...
- Reposted by Dirk HolemansFantastic-looking new book by @ferracimo.bsky.social on @scientistrebellion.bsky.social! I look very much forward to reading it.
- Welp, it's here! Advanced copies of Science in Resistance have just arrived. Thanks a lot to the team at @ucpress.bsky.social for sending them. www.ucpress.edu/books/scienc... And related news: I'll soon be going on a train tour to give talks and readings of this book - more info below 1/
- Reposted by Dirk HolemansOnze sociale zekerheid heeft vandaag een voedselpijler nodig. @ecodenker.bsky.social van @denktankoikos.bsky.social komt met een uitdagend idee: een gezondheidscheque van 150 euro per maand per persoon. www.sampol.be/2025/09/verg...
- Reposted by Dirk HolemansPleidooi voor een voedselbasisinkomen @ecodenker.bsky.social
- Reposted by Dirk HolemansStef Craps is hoogleraar Engelse letterkunde en directeur van het Cultural Memory Studies Initiative (UGent). Hij keek naar de rouwende buurtbewoners na de bomenkap in Deurne-Zuid en stelt dat we iets kunnen leren van de ‘bomenknuffelaars’. www.demorgen.be/meningen/wie...
- Reposted by Dirk Holemans‘Fear haunts us’: Pakistan’s floods leave mental scars long after waters recede
- Reposted by Dirk Holemans🌱 Een boekenclub voor iedereen die op een positieve manier wil meedenken over (klimaat)rechtvaardigheid. De boeken en data voor dit najaar zijn bekend. Zowel fictie als non-fictie. Schrijf het dus alvast in je agenda en begin alvast met lezen ✨ Telkens van 18.30 tot 20 uur in Muntpunt.
- Reposted by Dirk Holemans💭 Elke week verschijnt een opinie van Oikos in de zomerreeks 'De Doordenkers van Knack' over veiligheid en veerkracht. Afgelopen woensdag verscheen een artikel van Myriam Dumortier: ‘Oogst nooit meer dan je nodig hebt' Lees het artikel op onze website: oikos.be/oogst-nooit-...
- Reposted by Dirk HolemansRECORD HEAT WAVE IN CHINA Another exceptional heat wave in China which will last WEEKS and break HUNDREDS of records. Today Xian and Qindu with 40.3C rose >40C for the first time in August. But this is just an appetizer to what's coming. Record heat will extend into September !
- Reposted by Dirk HolemansABSOLUTE INSANITY ON THE RED SEA Aqaba JORDAN min 35.0 max. 49.6 Eilat ISRAEL min 35.7 max. 48.8 Hottest day & night ever recorded on the Red Sea Over 45C also in CYPRUS There had never been anything like this or even close in the area
- Reposted by Dirk Holemans"Journalism in the service of violence:" "Germany’s “never again” pledge should carry weight given its deeply genocidal history. Yet it rings hollow when the country’s dominant outlets launder or supply propaganda to legitimise mass killing in Gaza." www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
- Reposted by Dirk HolemansThe agri-food sector is both victim and driver of the climate, nature, and pollution crisis 🎭 So why does the sector remain dangerously unchecked in EU policy? 🤔 Read our breakdown 👇 meta.eeb.org/2025/06/11/e...
- Reposted by Dirk HolemansIf you'd like to offer comments on the misleading & error-ridden US federal report, "Critical Review of Impacts of Greenhouse Gas Emissions on the U.S. Climate," the link to do so is below. Comments are due by Sept 2. Pls see next post for links to resources that debunk the claims in this report.
- Reposted by Dirk HolemansNEW ANALYSIS: Wildfires have already scorched a UK-record land area in 2025, double the previous high – and 4x above average By Orla Dwyer, Ho Woo Nam + Tom Prater www.carbonbrief.org/...
- Reposted by Dirk HolemansEAST ASIA RECORD HEAT Endless record heat continues in the area. Today 10 stations in China broke their August highest temperature records including the latest 40C in Shaanxi Province (40.2C Daning) 39C also in THAILAND and MYANMAR where Minbu with 39.4C broke its August record.
- Reposted by Dirk HolemansIran has more oil reserves than all but three countries in the world. But not enough water. A lot like texas.
- Reposted by Dirk Holemans"Where we once asked, 'How do stories work?' today's scholars ask, 'How can stories help us survive our planetary crisis?' - read my new LinkedIn post on 5 decades of literary theory and its planetary relevance. @amitav.bsky.social @ecodenker.bsky.social www.linkedin.com/pulse/when-e...
- Reposted by Dirk HolemansEUROPEAN HEAT WAVE Historic heat yesterday in the AZORES 31.1C at Horta Observatory ,Failal Island,Portugal Hottest day in history In Continential Portugal up to 44.3C at Pinhao Next days heat increase in Western Europe with some records in Spain and France and later possibly in the Balkans.
- Soms is het goed een stevige boodschap te brengen. De onderzoeken stapelen zich op, fabriekseten is gewoon super ongezond. www.standaard.be/opinies/fast...
- Reposted by Dirk Holemans🌿 "Agroecology promotes Culture and Food Traditions that Preserves indigenous culinary practices and agricultural heritage. Supports local food sovereignty and cultural identity preservation." 📷 Credit: agroecologymap.org/locations/as... #agroecology #agroecologia #agroécologie #agrarökologie
- Reposted by Dirk HolemansAgroecology promotes co-creation and sharing of knowledge 🧠👩🏽🌾📚 — connecting farmers, researchers, and communities. #Agroecology #KnowledgeSharing #FarmerLed #MST #Bahia #Brasil Learn about agroecology initiatives in: agroecologymap.org/en/locations...
- Reposted by Dirk Holemans🚨BREAKING🚨 ICJ ruling that a healthy environment is a human right could be a real turning point in setting out governments’ legal responsibility to tackle #climate crisis 👇
- Reposted by Dirk HolemansHet is zover: de ICJ buigt zich over klimaatverplichtingen van staten – historisch, dankzij jarenlange inzet van jongeren, middenveld en landen als Vanuatu. 1️⃣ Verplichtingen staten inz. klimaat onder internationaal recht? 2️⃣ Juridische gevolgen als ze die schenden? 📺 webtv.un.org/en/asset/k1c...
- Reposted by Dirk HolemansHuge algal bloom on the #Baltic Sea! The #Copernicus #Sentinel2 image, colliected on July 21st shows an enormous swirling algal bloom on the eastern part of swedisch islands, during the longest #heatwave ever for #Scandinavia.
- Reposted by Dirk HolemansJAPAN RECORD HEAT Record heat never ends in Japan with temperatures approaching the 40C mark. More important records of July highest temperatures: 36.0 Aomori 38.1 Maebaru 36.5 Koshimizu 35.3 Takatsu 2025 Summer is so far the hottest in history.
- Reposted by Dirk HolemansDoe geen moeite, we weten aan wiens kant jullie staan.
- Reposted by Dirk Holemans💡Discover a global network of agroecology projects and groups on Agroecology Map! 🌱 Connect, learn, and grow with initiatives promoting sustainable farming and food systems worldwide. 🌍✨ #Agroecology #SustainableFarming #FoodJustice 🔗 Find out more agroecologymap.org/projects_and...
- Reposted by Dirk Holemans1. Yesterday, 86 people were arrested in the UK under the Terrorism Act 2000 for holding signs saying "I oppose genocide. I support Palestine Action." They are the opposite of terrorists. They were protesting *against* terrorism. 🧵
- Reposted by Dirk HolemansThe investor described a “counterattack” against universities in his messages and called for the National Science Foundation, a federal research funding agency, to receive “the bureaucratic death penalty.”
- Reposted by Dirk HolemansNew book by my friend @ecodenker.bsky.social is coming in October on the necessary food revolution for farmers and citizens. Great Dutch title, which I would translate as "Fellowship of the Soil" 🍄🥔 #omgroei Of interest to @timjackson.org.uk @romankrznaric.bsky.social @amitav.bsky.social
- De cover van nieuw boek - lancering 25 oktober Nooit gedacht toen ik er mijn tanden in zette dat er zoveel lagen te ontdekken zijn - en dus te veranderen - in het landbouw-voedsel-systeem.
- Reposted by Dirk HolemansToday the order banning #PalestineAction as "terrorists" came into effect. But they are not terrorists. They are protesters trying to stop a genocide. This is a "first they came for ..." situation. Unless we stand in solidarity against this assault on our freedom, they will pick us off one by one.
- Reposted by Dirk Holemans“Israel has used this genocide as an opportunity to test new weapons, customized surveillance tools, lethal drones, radar systems, and other unmanned technologies — all deployed to exterminate a population without restraint.” —Francesca Albanese, UN Special Rapporteur
- Reposted by Dirk Holemans🌱 Agroecology Centre in Alerek trains 5,000+ people in regenerative farming, aiding 32,500 lives, with focus on vulnerable groups 🌾💧🌳👩🏿🌾💪🏿 agroecologymap.org/l/karamoja-n... #agroecology #uganda #africa
- Reposted by Dirk HolemansSolar’s price drop is astonishing: panels are now 98% cheaper than when I first analysed the cost of solar in 2004. Today, building a fence with solar panels can be cheaper than using wood.
- Reposted by Dirk HolemansCities Beyond Growth is a six-week online course that invites you to reimagine urban life through the lens of post-growth thinking, an approach that recognises that more GDP doesn’t always mean better lives, especially when it comes at the cost of social equity and ecological survival.
- Reposted by Dirk HolemansEU citizens overwhelmingly behind climate action, poll suggests
- Reposted by Dirk HolemansCurious about the processes that contribute to mid-latitude summer heatwaves? Black arrows = driving mechanisms Red arrows = feedbacks (+, positive and −, negative) Boldface = processes in current climate Italics = projected changes under anthropogenic warming www.nature.com/articles/s43...
- Reposted by Dirk Holemans🚨 UK aviation emissions rose 9% in 2024, now exceeding those from the entire electricity sector. Committee on Climate Change warns this could derail climate targets. Yet UK government supports airport expansion. ✈️🌍 #FlightFree #NoAirportExpansion www.ft.com/content/7e17...
- Reposted by Dirk HolemansCan you imagine what life must be like in Gaza at this point, where you're forced to choose between watching your children being *deliberately* starved, or being *deliberately* shot to death by an occupying army? Israel's depravity has reached levels that go far beyond any comprehension.
- IDF soldiers have now themselves admitted they have been ordered to murder aid-seekers in Gaza. Truly an atrocity built on atrocity. www.haaretz.com/israel-news/...
- Reposted by Dirk HolemansHorrifying. Israel just dropped bombs on tents full of displaced civilians in Gaza. 15 tents were buried under the sand. Entire families were swallowed by the massive blast crater. They were buried alive. A massacre in plain sight.
