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Dear members, You have recently been informed via email for the procedure of your membership fee.   We would like to inform you that for new members pro rata rates apply on the basis of the calendar year 2012. The contribution for an annual subscription is 30 EUR ( 15 EUR for student-members).  

On Friday 9 December 2011 YES-DC organized the last YES-DC Activity of the year, in which networking was the central theme. Apart from that, Koen Willems of kWh People joined us to present his recruitment agency to the audience and to meet potential candidates for his customers. About 40 members and guests participated in the

 In one of the more politically themed activities in recent (YES-DC) history, two great lecturers shared their ideas on the political/ideological distortion of climate science. In a world where the effects of our changing climate are becoming more apparent with every passing year, getting the climate science right is surely a topic worthy of discussion.

On the the 27th of june our YES-DC activity was on local renewable energy initiatives. Pauline Westendorp was truly a very interesting speaker. She told us about her work with NewNRG and the initiatives she is involved with like “Wij Krijgen Kippen”. Its aim is to unite all initiatives in Amsterdam-Zuid to work together in

By Katrin Heer Once per year the world’s policy makers meet under the auspices of the United Nations in order to negotiate on common strategies to tackle climate change. Between and as a preparation to these annual high-level conferences, there are several intermediary climate change conferences where advisory committees and working groups to the UN

On a beautiful day in the very beginning of June, two busloads of YES-DC people headed off on a brave expedition to the Jülich Research Center, near Aachen in Germany. This impressively large state-owned non-profit institution with roughly four and a half thousand employees, has a large department on climate and energy research. So, besides

Well, that was surely one of the more flashy and entertaining activities we’ve had in a while! We were visited by Gieljan de Vries of the Dutch institute for nuclear fusion Rijnhuizen, who gave us an excellent show, starting of with some basic thoughts on energy use and ending up talking about current developments in nuclear fusion. We

In January YES-DC organized a meeting on sustainable entrepreneurship in Utrecht. We heard two very interesting stories from an idea generator that ‘invests/develops’ from the one side (ENVIU), and from an entrepreneur who started everything from the ground up on the other side (Ampyx Windpower). Both showed various opportunities on how to make your sustainable

That 2011 will be a year with more interesting contact, many high quality YES-DC activities and some great excursions. We would like to thank you for your great contribution during all our activities in 2010! With as a highlight most probably the excursion to the Wind Park, the Debate on Energy (DEO) day and the