Alexander VerbeekinThe EnvironmentCool Planets are Hard to FindIn three months, wildfires in the US already destroyed a larger area than last year in six months·7 min read·6 days ago--6--6
Alexander VerbeekinThe MasterpieceThe Odd Awareness of Time When Your Feet Step on HistoryTravel is often time travel if you set your mind to it·2 min read·Apr 24, 2024--3--3
Alexander VerbeekinThe EnvironmentTwelve Days That Didn’t Change the WorldAppreciating nature’s beauty while we have two years left to save the planet·9 min read·Apr 22, 2024--8--8
Alexander VerbeekinThe EnvironmentThe US Has the World’s Highest Economic Losses From Weather EventsA new Swiss Re study ranks the US second in terms of percent of GDP economic losses·5 min read·Apr 15, 2024--5--5
Alexander VerbeekinThe EnvironmentEurope Warms Twice as Fast as Other ContinentsHundreds of temperature records broken all over Europe·4 min read·Apr 7, 2024--8--8
Alexander VerbeekinThe EnvironmentWhy Vincent van Gogh Would Have Loved to Paint the Nature and Churches on My IslandWhile living in a small island village during springtime, I found inspiration in history, art, and returning birds.·9 min read·Apr 3, 2024--11--11
Alexander VerbeekinTravel MemoirsI Found Art on the Camino de SantiagoA personal journey through Richard Serra’s concept of space, from Bilbao to the Meseta·9 min read·Mar 30, 2024--25--25
Alexander VerbeekinThe Narrative ArcHalf-a-Century of Shoreline Memories on a Warming PlanetBriefly, the grief of all we are losing on this planet in an infectious wave of global environmental ignorance is forgotten.·7 min read·Mar 24, 2024--17--17
Alexander VerbeekinILLUMINATIONHow Social Media Exploded After Kate’s Cancer AnnouncementThere is support for Kate Middleton but also criticism, vile comments, and, for some, a sense of guilt.·5 min read·Mar 22, 2024--8--8
Alexander VerbeekinShort. Sweet. Valuable.Forest Day 2024It’s pretty intelligent for a brainless tree to work out something as complicated as the circular economy.·2 min read·Mar 21, 2024--14--14