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  1. Lees tip -> Elektrisch rijden 5 tot 7 keer goedkoper dan benzine | Brandstofkosten 5 tot 7 keer hoger dan laden. Allianz Trade ziet BEV-marktaandeel stijgen naar 19% door oliecrisis. | #AllianzTrade #mobiliteit #Benelux #BEV #laadinfrastructuur #elektrischrijden #brandstofprijzen |

    hbpmedia.nl/elektrisch-rijden-

  2. Lees tip -> Elektrisch rijden 5 tot 7 keer goedkoper dan benzine | Brandstofkosten 5 tot 7 keer hoger dan laden. Allianz Trade ziet BEV-marktaandeel stijgen naar 19% door oliecrisis. | #AllianzTrade #mobiliteit #Benelux #BEV #laadinfrastructuur #elektrischrijden #brandstofprijzen |

    hbpmedia.nl/elektrisch-rijden-

  3. Blogue présentant des gestes écocitoyens et des technologies vertes, dans le domaine du logement, du jardinage, du transport et de l'énergie, du textile et de la mode, l'agriculture et l'alimentation, la santé et du bien-être, la finance responsable, ainsi que des références de livres

    Plus : revolutionverte.fr

    #Avignon #France #Vaucluse #Vauclusien #Gard #Nimes #Gers #Calais #Dunkerque #Boulogne #Benelux #Luxembourg #Andorre #Liechtenstein #Vatican #Monaco #Macao #Pondichery #Libye #Caire

  4. Blogue présentant des gestes écocitoyens et des technologies vertes, dans le domaine du logement, du jardinage, du transport et de l'énergie, du textile et de la mode, l'agriculture et l'alimentation, la santé et du bien-être, la finance responsable, ainsi que des références de livres

    Plus : revolutionverte.fr

    #Avignon #France #Vaucluse #Vauclusien #Gard #Nimes #Gers #Calais #Dunkerque #Boulogne #Benelux #Luxembourg #Andorre #Liechtenstein #Vatican #Monaco #Macao #Pondichery #Libye #Caire

  5. Blogue présentant des gestes écocitoyens et des technologies vertes, dans le domaine du logement, du jardinage, du transport et de l'énergie, du textile et de la mode, l'agriculture et l'alimentation, la santé et du bien-être, la finance responsable, ainsi que des références de livres

    Plus : revolutionverte.fr

    #Avignon #France #Vaucluse #Vauclusien #Gard #Nimes #Gers #Calais #Dunkerque #Boulogne #Benelux #Luxembourg #Andorre #Liechtenstein #Vatican #Monaco #Macao #Pondichery #Libye #Caire

  6. Blogue présentant des gestes écocitoyens et des technologies vertes, dans le domaine du logement, du jardinage, du transport et de l'énergie, du textile et de la mode, l'agriculture et l'alimentation, la santé et du bien-être, la finance responsable, ainsi que des références de livres

    Plus : revolutionverte.fr

    #Avignon #France #Vaucluse #Vauclusien #Gard #Nimes #Gers #Calais #Dunkerque #Boulogne #Benelux #Luxembourg #Andorre #Liechtenstein #Vatican #Monaco #Macao #Pondichery #Libye #Caire

  7. Have you heard of #Geokrety? Or have you heard of #travelbugs? They're great fun, and whereas TravelBugs are commercial and will cost you money, Geokrety are open-source and completely free!

    With a little DIY, you can turn whatever you like into a trackable object. People can then move these from cache to cache and register each move with this service. You can then see the trip of your Geokret on a map, and people can leave stories of what they've been through in the log! Cute, right?

    While geocaching tends to slow down during the winter months—with fewer boots on the trails and some caches even tucked away under the snow—this "off-season" is actually the perfect time to start a project. You can spend the cold evenings crafting your Geokrety so they are ready to hit the wild as soon as the spring thaw begins!

    Read all about them here: https://geokrety.org/en/help#about

    Of course, they are fully compatible with opencaching.nl! https://wiki.opencaching.nl/index.php/Loggen_van_Geokrets

    Are you considering making some of your own to leave in the geocaches you find?

    #geocaching #opencaching #geocache #benelux #treasurehunt #outdoors #adventure #nederland #Netherlands #belgie #belgium #luxemburg #luxembourg #website #opensource #community @geocaching @geocaching

  8. Have you heard of #Geokrety? Or have you heard of #travelbugs? They're great fun, and whereas TravelBugs are commercial and will cost you money, Geokrety are open-source and completely free!

    With a little DIY, you can turn whatever you like into a trackable object. People can then move these from cache to cache and register each move with this service. You can then see the trip of your Geokret on a map, and people can leave stories of what they've been through in the log! Cute, right?

    While geocaching tends to slow down during the winter months—with fewer boots on the trails and some caches even tucked away under the snow—this "off-season" is actually the perfect time to start a project. You can spend the cold evenings crafting your Geokrety so they are ready to hit the wild as soon as the spring thaw begins!

    Read all about them here: https://geokrety.org/en/help#about

    Of course, they are fully compatible with opencaching.nl! https://wiki.opencaching.nl/index.php/Loggen_van_Geokrets

    Are you considering making some of your own to leave in the geocaches you find?

    #geocaching #opencaching #geocache #benelux #treasurehunt #outdoors #adventure #nederland #Netherlands #belgie #belgium #luxemburg #luxembourg #website #opensource #community @geocaching @geocaching

  9. Have you heard of #Geokrety? Or have you heard of #travelbugs? They're great fun, and whereas TravelBugs are commercial and will cost you money, Geokrety are open-source and completely free!

    With a little DIY, you can turn whatever you like into a trackable object. People can then move these from cache to cache and register each move with this service. You can then see the trip of your Geokret on a map, and people can leave stories of what they've been through in the log! Cute, right?

    While geocaching tends to slow down during the winter months—with fewer boots on the trails and some caches even tucked away under the snow—this "off-season" is actually the perfect time to start a project. You can spend the cold evenings crafting your Geokrety so they are ready to hit the wild as soon as the spring thaw begins!

    Read all about them here: https://geokrety.org/en/help#about

    Of course, they are fully compatible with opencaching.nl! https://wiki.opencaching.nl/index.php/Loggen_van_Geokrets

    Are you considering making some of your own to leave in the geocaches you find?

    #geocaching #opencaching #geocache #benelux #treasurehunt #outdoors #adventure #nederland #Netherlands #belgie #belgium #luxemburg #luxembourg #website #opensource #community @geocaching @geocaching

  10. Have you heard of #Geokrety? Or have you heard of #travelbugs? They're great fun, and whereas TravelBugs are commercial and will cost you money, Geokrety are open-source and completely free!

    With a little DIY, you can turn whatever you like into a trackable object. People can then move these from cache to cache and register each move with this service. You can then see the trip of your Geokret on a map, and people can leave stories of what they've been through in the log! Cute, right?

    While geocaching tends to slow down during the winter months—with fewer boots on the trails and some caches even tucked away under the snow—this "off-season" is actually the perfect time to start a project. You can spend the cold evenings crafting your Geokrety so they are ready to hit the wild as soon as the spring thaw begins!

    Read all about them here: https://geokrety.org/en/help#about

    Of course, they are fully compatible with opencaching.nl! https://wiki.opencaching.nl/index.php/Loggen_van_Geokrets

    Are you considering making some of your own to leave in the geocaches you find?

    #geocaching #opencaching #geocache #benelux #treasurehunt #outdoors #adventure #nederland #Netherlands #belgie #belgium #luxemburg #luxembourg #website #opensource #community @geocaching @geocaching

  11. Have you heard of #Geokrety? Or have you heard of #travelbugs? They're great fun, and whereas TravelBugs are commercial and will cost you money, Geokrety are open-source and completely free!

    With a little DIY, you can turn whatever you like into a trackable object. People can then move these from cache to cache and register each move with this service. You can then see the trip of your Geokret on a map, and people can leave stories of what they've been through in the log! Cute, right?

    While geocaching tends to slow down during the winter months—with fewer boots on the trails and some caches even tucked away under the snow—this "off-season" is actually the perfect time to start a project. You can spend the cold evenings crafting your Geokrety so they are ready to hit the wild as soon as the spring thaw begins!

    Read all about them here: https://geokrety.org/en/help#about

    Of course, they are fully compatible with opencaching.nl! https://wiki.opencaching.nl/index.php/Loggen_van_Geokrets

    Are you considering making some of your own to leave in the geocaches you find?

    #geocaching #opencaching #geocache #benelux #treasurehunt #outdoors #adventure #nederland #Netherlands #belgie #belgium #luxemburg #luxembourg #website #opensource #community @geocaching @geocaching

  12. “You get what you measure”*…

    Matt Stoller takes the occasion of Trump’s selection of Kevin Warsh to head the Fed (“an orthodox Wall Street GOP pick, though he is married to the billionaire heiress of the Estee Lauder fortune and was named in the Epstein files. He’s perceived not as a Trump loyalist but as an avatar of capital”) to ponder why public satisfaction with the economy is so low (“if you judge solely by consumer sentiment, Trump’s first term was the third best economy Americans experienced since 1960. Trump’s second term is not only worse than his first, it is the worst economic management ever recorded by this indicator”).

    Stoller argues that we’re mesuring the wrong things (or, in some cases, the right things in the wrong ways)…

    … the models underpinning how policymakers think about the economy just don’t reflect the realities of modern commerce. The fundamental dynamic is that those models were constructed in an era where America was one discrete economy, with Wall Street and the public tied together by the housing finance system. But today, Americans increasingly live in tiered bubbles that have less and less to do with one another. Warsh will essentially be looking at the wrong indicators, pushing buttons that are mislabeled.

    While corporate America is experiencing good times, much of the country is experiencing recessionary conditions. Let’s contrast consumer sentiment indicators with statistics showing an economic boom. Last week, the government came out with stats on real gross domestic product increasing at a scorching 4.4% in the third quarter of last year. There’s higher consumer spending, corporate investment, government spending, and a better trade balance. Inflation, according to the Consumer Price Index, is low at 2.6.% over the past year. And while official numbers aren’t out for the final three months of the year, the Atlanta Fed’s GDPNow forecast shows that it estimates growth at 4.2%. And there are other indicators showing prosperity, from low unemployment to high business formation, which was up about 8% last year, as well as record corporate profits…

    … Behavioral economists and psychologists have all sorts of reasons to explain that people don’t really understand the economy particularly well. But in general, when the stats and the public mood conflict, I believe the public is usually correct. Often, there are some weird anomalies with the data used by policymakers. In 2023, I noticed that the consumer price index, the typical measure of inflation, didn’t account for borrowing costs, so the Fed hike cycle, which caused increases in credit card, mortgage, auto loan, payday loans, et al, just wasn’t incorporated. The public wasn’t mad at phantom inflation, they were mad at real inflation that the “experts” didn’t see.

    I don’t think that’s the only miscalculation…

    [Stoller goes on to explain the ways in which “consumer spending” doesn’t tell us much about consumers anymore, about the painful reality of “spending inequality,” and about the obscure(d) problem of monopoly-driven inflation. He concludes…]

    … Finally, there’s a more philosophical point, which I don’t think explains the short-term frustrations people feel, but is directionally correct. Do people actually want what the economy is producing? For most of the 20th century, the answer was yes. When Simon Kuznets invented these measurement statistics in 1934, financial value and the value that Americans placed on products and services were similar. A bigger economy meant things like toilets and electricity spreading across rural America, and cars and food and washing machines.

    Today? Well, that’s less clear. According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, the second fastest growing sector of the economy in terms of GDP growth from 2019-2024 was gambling. Philip Pilkington wrote a good essay last summer on the moral assumptions behind our growth statistics. There is no agreed upon notion of what makes up an economically valuable object or activity, so our stats are inherently subtle moral judgments. Classic moral philosophers like Adam Smith believed in the “use value” of an item, meaning how it could be used, whereas neoclassical economists believed in the “exchange value” of an item, making no judgments about use and are just counting up its market price.

    Normal people subscribe on a moral level to use value. Most of us see someone spending money on a gambling addiction as doing something worse than providing Christmas presents for kids, but not because of price. However, our GDP models use the market value basis. Kuznets, presumably, was not amoral, he just thought that our laws would ban immoral activities like gambling, and so use value and market value wouldn’t diverge. But they have.

    It’s not just things like gambling or pornography or speculation. A lot of previously unmeasured activity has been turned into data and monetized, which isn’t actually increasing real growth but measuring what already existed. Take the change from meeting someone at a party to using a dating app. One is part of GDP, the other isn’t. Both are real, but only one would show a bigger economy.

    Beyond that much of our economy is now based on intangibles – the fastest growing sector was software publishing. Is Microsoft moving to a subscription fee model for Office truly some sort of groundbreaking new product? It’s hard to say, while corporate assets used to be hard things like factories, today much of it is intangibles like intellectual property.

    A boomcession, where the rich and corporate America experience a boom while working people feel a recession, is a very unhealthy dynamic. It’s certainly possible to create metrics to measure it, and to help policymakers understand real income growth among different subgroups. You could start looking at real income after non-discretionary consumer spending, or find ways of adjusting for price discrimination.

    But I think a better approach is to try to knit us into one society again. The kinds of policymakers who could try to create metrics to understand the different experiences of classes, and ameliorate them, don’t have power. Instead, the people in charge still use models which presume one economy and one relatively uniform set of prices, where “consumer spending” means stuff consumers want.

    I once noted a speech in 2016 by then-Fed Chair Janet Yellen in which she expressed surprise that powerful rich firms and small weak ones had different borrowing rates, which affected the “monetary transmission channel” the Fed relied on. Sure it was obvious in the real world, but she preferred theory.

    Or they don’t use models at all; Kevin Warsh is not an economist, he’s a lawyer and political operative, and is uninterested in academic theory. He cares about corporate profits and capital formation. That probably won’t work out well either.

    At any rate, we have to start measuring what matters again. If we don’t, then we’ll continue to be baffled that normal people hate the economy that looks fine on our charts…

    The models used by policymakers to understand wages, economic growth, and consumer spending are misleading. That’s why corporate America is having a party, and everyone else is mad. Eminently worth reading in full: “The Boomcession: Why Americans Hate What Looks Like an Economic Boom,” from @matthewstoller.bsky.social (or @mattstoller.skystack.xyz).

    Richard Hamming (and also to the article above, see “Goodhart’s law“)

    ###

    As we ponder the pecuniary, we might recall that it was on this date in 1958 that Benelux Economic Union was founded, creating the seed from the European Economic Community, then the European Union grew.

    On that same day, Philadelphia doo wop group The Silhouettes started five weeks at the top of the Billboard R&B chart with their first single, “Get A Job.”

    https://youtu.be/ysKhbaLyIFw?si=obKAiTS4gb6n4cQB

    #Benelux #BeneluxEconomicUnion #business #consumerConfidence #consumerPriceIndex #culture #economicPolicy #economics #EuropeanEconomicCommunity #EuropeanUnion #FederalReserve #GetAJob #history #inflation #measurement #monetaryPolicy #music #politics #RAndB #silhouettes #statistics #TheSilhouettes
  13. Happy belated New Year from Team Opencaching Benelux!

    ​2026 is here, and the caches are waiting. Do you have any big plans for the year? Whether it's finding that one cache that eluded you last year or hiding your first #Opencache, we want to hear about it! 👇

    #community #geocaching #opencaching #geocache #benelux #treasurehunt #outdoors #adventure #nederland #Netherlands #belgie #belgium #luxemburg #luxembourg #website #opensource @geocaching

  14. Hype for the Future 73G: European Subnational Subdivisions (Part Two, Germanic Nations)

    Introduction Unfortunately, the previous post could not cover the entirety of the different subnational regions, but could only cover the specific regions of the British Isles and the Romance nations. This post is specifically dedicated to the nations of Belgium, the Netherlands, Luxembourg, Germany, Switzerland, Liechtenstein, Austria, Iceland, Denmark, Norway, and Sweden. National Subdivisions Belgium 🇧🇪 West Flanders East Flanders Antwerp Flemish Brabant Brussels Walloon […]

    novatopflex.wordpress.com/2026

  15. Blogue qui présente des solutions écologiques dans le domaine du logement, du jardinage, du transport et de l'énergie, du textile et de la mode, l'agriculture et l'alimentation, la santé et le bien-être, la finance responsable, ainsi que des références de livres, et documentaires.

    Plus sur
    revolutionverte.fr

    #blogue #industrie #textile #journal #finance #financement #nature #naturel #Blois #Versailles #Meaux #Lagny #Moselle #Alsace #Dijon #Luxembourg #Benelux #Rotterdam #Meuse #Dax

  16. Mon blogue présente des solutions écologiques dans le domaine du logement, du jardinage, du transport et de l'énergie, du textile et de la mode, l'agriculture et l'alimentation, la santé et le bien-être, la finance responsable, ainsi que des références de livres, et documentaires.

    Plus sur
    revolutionverte.fr

    #Kobe #Suisse #benelux #journal #blogue #blogger #blogging #finance #nature #naturel #Stuttgart #Koblenz #Ankara #Bali #Netherlands #kyoto #Japon #acores #bastia #borgo #nice

  17. Wochenrückblick, Ausgabe 114 (2025-44)

    Themen:

    🛣️ 2.800 km auf einem Benelux-Roadtrip unterwegs

    🖥️ Neue Hardware für Bikerouter

    🗺️ Geo Activity Playground von @martin_ueding: das bessere Squadrats?

    🔲 Geo Activity Playground: Square Planner 🤓

    🔊 In dieser Woche gehört: Kaufmann

    #Wochenrückblick #Roadtrip #Benelux #Owntracks #OpenStreetMap #Bikerouter #Squadrats #ExplorerMaxSquare #GeoActivityPlayground #Techno

    marcusjaschen.de/blog/2025/202

  18. Did you know the Opencaching network has a 20-year history of shared, open-source code? 🤯

    Two main branches of our code exist today: one from Opencaching-PL and one from Opencaching-DE (Opencaching.pl actually branched off two decades ago). What site runs on which code? Check out the diagram!

    No matter the code branch, all our sister-sites work together thanks to OKAPI! This project connects the entire Opencaching network, allowing anyone to build an app to access geocaches across all participating sites through one API 🔗

    In a way, our network is a decentralized, interconnected platform, just like the Fediverse!

    Have you ever found a cache from one of our sister-sites? Tell us about it in the comments! 👇

    Learn more about OKAPI here: https://wiki.opencaching.eu/index.php?title=OKAPI

    #geocaching #opencaching #geocache #benelux #treasurehunt #outdoors #adventure #nederland #Netherlands #belgie #belgium #luxemburg #luxembourg #website #opensource #okapi #decentralized #fediverse @geocaching

  19. So sieht ein Wechsel des Staatsoberhaupts in einer Benelux-Monarchie aus:

    Kein Prunk, keine mittelalterlichen Sprüche oder Rituale, kein Krone aufsetzen oder gesalbt werden.

    Sondern: Der neue Großherzog leistet seinen Eid auf die Verfassung im Parlament ab.

    #Luxemburg #Monarchie #Großherzog #Großherzogtum #Groothertog #Guillaume #Benelux #Nassau #RoyalsGossip #Royals #GrandDuc #Luxembourg #trounwiessel

  20. This is probably the right time & place to mention there is such a thing as #intersex - #biological speaking. Some years ago I was asked to make a #graphicnarrative of the #truestory of someone who spoke up. A #heartwrenching #biographical #tale that got nominated for the best #shortstory #comic of the #benelux.

    #creativecommons. It can be reprinted/published free for non-profit WITHOUT changes & WITH proper credits. #lgbtq #rights #trans #nonbinary

    Full read🇳🇱🇬🇧👉️
    gemmaplum.nl/business/portfoli

  21. Happy New Year to me and the 2025 timetable! Benelux domestic and cross-border passenger rail network 2025 in 8 schematic maps. pdf's at hilario.bambooradical.com/bene

    #Benelux #Luxembourg #Belgium #Netherlands #zug #train #trein #transit #transitmap