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Patrick ten Brink
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Environmentalist, writer, art reviewer, very occasional artist - appreciating what is there to be appreciated, criticising what merits criticism, and trying to do my penny's worth for environmental justice, art and culture and hopefully spark some hope. .. more

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Patrick ten Brink @patricktenbrink.bsky.social · Oct 27
A big thank you to Paul Stephenson (poet of the collection Hard Drive, Carcanet, 2023) for his review of my Urban Enigmas chapbook that explores the oddities in Brussels' streets: thebrusselsreview.com/paul-stephen...
"Urban Enigmas Of Patrick Ten Brink" By Paul Stephenson
A surreal, poetic stroll through Brussels’ overlooked streets, where orphaned objects and street life are celebrated with wit and wonder. "These well-crafted poems do justice to the everyday, to the p...
thebrusselsreview.com

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European Environmental Bureau🍃 @eeb.org · 7d
👋 German speaking environmental defenders.

Join our workshop in Berlin from 9th-10th December, 2025 to strengthen your skills and build up your toolbox! 🧰

📝 Register now: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/workshop-t...

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European Environmental Bureau🍃 @eeb.org · 8d
📢 Alarm Bells: Unlimited Pesticides 📢

An internal EU Commission draft proposes unlimited pesticide approvals, scrapping science-based risk checks, and 3 extra years of use after bans.

A 30-year rollback that puts people's health and nature on the line 😷

Commissioners must reject it! More below ⬇️

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Patrick ten Brink @patricktenbrink.bsky.social · 12d
Troubling tectonic shift in the European Parliament voting alliances.

For details see New Leaf News on LinkedIn 〰️ DEMOCRATIC JENGA
www.linkedin.com/pulse/democr...

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Patrick ten Brink @patricktenbrink.bsky.social · 12d
What everyone knows is insane but still somehow happening (ignoring the alarm bells and science on climate crisis impacts - Jamaica's hurricane nightmare was only a week ago) Sometimes words dont stick, how about an illustration to motivate climate talks in Brazil www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Is climate change really something we need to stress about? | Fiona Katauskas
We could just wait until it all boils over
www.theguardian.com

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Patrick ten Brink @patricktenbrink.bsky.social · 12d
It is disheartening how EU leadership and action is being assaulted with disinformation and narratives of fear, and giving in to far right and foreign pressure, when the needs for action, benefits of action and costs on inaction are so so clear. EU should resist. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Once a global leader on climate action, the EU has given in to the right’s green-bashing | Nathalie Tocci
From deforestation to emissions trading, vital policies are being watered down in the name of ‘competitiveness’, says Guardian Europe columnist Nathalie Tocci
www.theguardian.com

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European Environmental Bureau🍃 @eeb.org · 13d
🔴 Climate COPs get the spotlight – but the #AarhusConvention MOP (17–25 Nov) is key to the future of environmental democracy

🚨 With EU democracy under immense pressure, stakes are high for next week's meeting

Find out what to expect @clienteartheur.bsky.social 👇
www.clientearth.org/projects/acc...
2025 Aarhus Meeting of the Parties: what to expect? | ClientEarth
Aarhus Convention Meeting of the Parties (MOP) will take place later this year What will be the hot topics?
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Patrick ten Brink @patricktenbrink.bsky.social · 16d
Renewable energy proven to save households billions so what is driving some governments to oppose renewables and push fossil fuels? See UCL study that found that wind power reduced consumer energy bills by $137 billion between 2010 and 2023. oilprice.com/Alternative-...
How Britain’s Wind Boom Has Slashed Energy Bills | OilPrice.com
Britain’s rapid wind energy expansion has not only overtaken fossil fuels in power generation but has also saved consumers an estimated $137 billion in energy costs since 2010.
oilprice.com

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Patrick ten Brink @patricktenbrink.bsky.social · 28d
What is the #1 risk in the world (if you ask professional risk managers? The question then becomes: are leaders taking the #1 seriously or looking elsewhere, in denial? Visualizing the Top 10 Global Risks (2020-2025) share.google/z8m8jVqehffa...
Visualizing the Top 10 Global Risks (2020-2025)
From climate change to rising polarization, we show the top 10 global risks in an increasingly uncertain climate.
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Patrick ten Brink @patricktenbrink.bsky.social · 29d
A clear warning on what certain forces are trying to make happen in Europe (and that many of us are fighting back against every day). euobserver.com/eu-political...
How NGOs die — Europe's playbook for dismantling democracy
The playbook is brutally efficient: fabricate a scandal, delegitimise and defund organisations into dependency on philanthropic support, then criminalise their new funding as foreign influence — all w...
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Patrick ten Brink @patricktenbrink.bsky.social · Oct 19
Democracy is not dead.
muellershewrote.com Mueller, She Wrote @muellershewrote.com · Oct 19
I’m absolutely exhausted in the best possible way. I love us. We did it! #NoKings

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Patrick ten Brink @patricktenbrink.bsky.social · Oct 19
The person behind the book. www.theguardian.com/books/2025/o...
‘A glimpse of genius’: what do unpublished stories found in Harper Lee’s apartment tell us about the To Kill a Mockingbird author?
When she died, the writer left behind a cache of notebooks and manuscripts. Her biographer reveals what they tell us about her unlikely rise to literary stardom
www.theguardian.com

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Mueller, She Wrote @muellershewrote.com · Oct 19
I’m absolutely exhausted in the best possible way. I love us. We did it! #NoKings

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Patrick ten Brink @patricktenbrink.bsky.social · Oct 16
A useful reminder: A Human on a Bicycle Is among the Most Efficient Forms of Travel in the Animal Kingdom | Scientific American share.google/PItKvNJhK84F...

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Patrick ten Brink @patricktenbrink.bsky.social · Oct 8
A lire avant de faire les prochaines courses....Pommes, oranges, tomates… Quels sont les aliments les plus contaminés aux pesticides et ceux qui en contiennent le moins ? share.google/BltJrn2l1i2B...
Pommes, oranges, tomates… Quels sont les aliments les plus contaminés aux pesticides et ceux qui en contiennent le moins ?
Roulement de topinambour. Notre nourriture est contaminée par au moins 183 types de résidus de pesticides. Une pollution stable, mais dont l’effet cocktail – le mélange de ces produits – est peu docum...
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Patrick ten Brink @patricktenbrink.bsky.social · Oct 4
This report is a wake up call & call to action. Anyone looking at the facts can see that deregulation, the unravelling of env. & social protections, is the opposite of what leaders should be doing. We need laws to be implemented & enforced, not undermined. What world will our children inherit?
eea.europa.eu European Environment Agency @eea.europa.eu · Oct 3
🚨🌍 New Report Alert
#EuropesEnvironment2025: Thematic Briefings are out!

Dive into 35 in-depth topics + assessments on how Europe is doing – where we are, where we’re headed, and whether we’ll meet the EU’s 2030 & 2050 environmental goals

Explore them here: eea.europa.eu/en/europe-en... [...]

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Patrick ten Brink @patricktenbrink.bsky.social · Oct 4
It sounds banal, but it isn't. The importance of fixing the potholes in our roads. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

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European Environment Agency @eea.europa.eu · Oct 3
🚨🌍 New Report Alert
#EuropesEnvironment2025: Thematic Briefings are out!

Dive into 35 in-depth topics + assessments on how Europe is doing – where we are, where we’re headed, and whether we’ll meet the EU’s 2030 & 2050 environmental goals

Explore them here: eea.europa.eu/en/europe-en... [...]

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Patrick ten Brink @patricktenbrink.bsky.social · Sep 28
"The evidence grows. So does the threat. Planned or not, Trump and Putin... are working together, or at least in parallel, to undercut European democracy, security, prosperity and progressive values." We in Europe need a concerted collective resistance movement. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Trump and Putin are threatening to carve up Europe between them. Suddenly, it all feels a bit 1939 | Simon Tisdall
Forget the US president’s seeming volte-face on Ukraine this week: he and Putin fundamentally agree that European liberal democracy is the problem, says Guardian foreign affairs commentator Simon Tisd...
www.theguardian.com

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Patrick ten Brink @patricktenbrink.bsky.social · Sep 23
The facts underline that Trump and his team are trying to undermine the EU (and Russia likewise). Europe needs to chart it's own clear, fully independent, path. It is more than a cultural war. www.theguardian.com
Trump is waging culture war on Europe by promoting rightwing allies, report finds
Study finds US president seeks to interfere in elections and ‘move the ideological centre of gravity’ in European politics
www.theguardian.com

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Patrick ten Brink @patricktenbrink.bsky.social · Sep 15
A good article of agri-photovoltaics (in French) / Une article intéressant sur le agri-photovoltaic. Suspendre des panneaux solaires au-dessus des champs : le pari gagnant de TSE | Les Echos share.google/1UOW7UC78aBf...
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Patrick ten Brink @patricktenbrink.bsky.social · Sep 14
Good article on freedom of expression/freedom of protest in art, and censorship www.bbc.com/culture/arti...
Michelangelo to Banksy: The controversial artworks that fell foul of the law - and were erased
Prefiguring Banksy's latest Royal Courts of Justice mural depicting a judge attacking a protester, are centuries of art history where works have been censored or edited.
www.bbc.com

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Patrick ten Brink @patricktenbrink.bsky.social · Sep 2
I am pleased that my speculative fiction novel, The Death and Life of Amelia Borgiotti, was selected to be part of the Cheshire Novel Prize's Top 100 (CNPK Top 100) today, out of over 1500 entries. I wish all the best to the 15 who have been selected to advance to the next stage!

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Patrick ten Brink @patricktenbrink.bsky.social · Aug 29
Delighted that my poetry collection - Urban Enigmas - with 23 poems looking at Brussels through a new lens is out, published by Dipity Press. There are even poems about waste management, lost things, odd codes, and of course people: www.dipitylitmag.com/chappies
Chappies | Dipity Lit Mag
Check out chapbooks released by Dipity Press.
www.dipitylitmag.com

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Patrick ten Brink @patricktenbrink.bsky.social · Aug 25
As deregulation, anti-environmental, forces are growing, it is useful to remember that laws were never put in place for the fun of it. There are human, societal or env needs, supported by facts. & laws set responsibilities. Civilisation surely is about embracing responsibilities not abandoning them?

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Patrick ten Brink @patricktenbrink.bsky.social · Aug 19
"the rate at which humans are now injecting CO2 into the oceans and atmosphere today far surpasses the planet’s ability to keep pace. We are now at the initial stages of a system failure." An article worth reading to the end.

www.theguardian.com/environment/...
‘A climate of unparalleled malevolence’: are we on our way to the sixth major mass extinction?
The long read: Churning quantities of carbon dioxide into the atmosphere at the rate we are going could lead the planet to another Great Dying
www.theguardian.com

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Patrick ten Brink @patricktenbrink.bsky.social · Aug 19
there are now well-established links between common additives to plastics and falling sperm counts. ... since 1973 a 1% per year decline. studies published after 2000, show an over 2% decline. We need responsible regulation and that global plastics treaty... www.theguardian.com/world/2025/a...
Action needed on plastic additives linked to sperm decline, experts warn
Amid collapse of global pollution treaty, scientists highlight environmental factors causing fertility crisis
www.theguardian.com

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Patrick ten Brink @patricktenbrink.bsky.social · Aug 17
The 23 Urban Enigma poems were fun to write, looking through a new lens at Brussels. Even waste management gets some poems... www.dipitylitmag.com/chappies. And a big thank you to the great Dipity LitMag team and their illustrators.

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Patrick ten Brink @patricktenbrink.bsky.social · Aug 13
If only country "leaders" (starting with the warmongers) put more money into the arts and less into war...
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'The 3 Graces' on the River Adur' stained glass and driftwood sculptures by UK artist Louise V Durham #WomensArt
Three oart sculture created with vertically sited pieces of driftwood inlaid with circles of coloured stained glass, placed on a riverbank against a gooden sky

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womensartbluesky.bsky.social @womensartbluesky.bsky.social · Aug 12
'The 3 Graces' on the River Adur' stained glass and driftwood sculptures by UK artist Louise V Durham #WomensArt
Three oart sculture created with vertically sited pieces of driftwood inlaid with circles of coloured stained glass, placed on a riverbank against a gooden sky