Patrick ten Brink
@patricktenbrink.bsky.social
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.
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"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
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...
Already now there are severe water problems in Europe (and beyond) due to climate change - without weaning ourselves off fossil fuels asap, farmers will be undermined, whole towns, cities communities at risk, lives compromised. www.theguardian.com/environment/...
Revealed: Europe’s water reserves drying up due to climate breakdown
Exclusive: UCL scientists find large swathes of southern Europe are drying up, with ‘far-reaching’ implications
www.theguardian.com
November 29, 2025 at 8:52 AM
Already now there are severe water problems in Europe (and beyond) due to climate change - without weaning ourselves off fossil fuels asap, farmers will be undermined, whole towns, cities communities at risk, lives compromised. www.theguardian.com/environment/...
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👋 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...
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...
November 20, 2025 at 11:06 AM
👋 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...
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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📢 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 ⬇️
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 ⬇️
November 19, 2025 at 3:09 PM
📢 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 ⬇️
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 ⬇️
Troubling tectonic shift in the European Parliament voting alliances.
For details see New Leaf News on LinkedIn 〰️ DEMOCRATIC JENGA
www.linkedin.com/pulse/democr...
For details see New Leaf News on LinkedIn 〰️ DEMOCRATIC JENGA
www.linkedin.com/pulse/democr...
November 15, 2025 at 7:58 AM
Troubling tectonic shift in the European Parliament voting alliances.
For details see New Leaf News on LinkedIn 〰️ DEMOCRATIC JENGA
www.linkedin.com/pulse/democr...
For details see New Leaf News on LinkedIn 〰️ DEMOCRATIC JENGA
www.linkedin.com/pulse/democr...
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🔴 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...
🚨 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?
www.clientearth.org
November 14, 2025 at 11:48 AM
🔴 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...
🚨 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...
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
November 15, 2025 at 7:51 AM
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...
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
November 15, 2025 at 7:17 AM
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...
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
November 11, 2025 at 6:15 PM
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-...
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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October 30, 2025 at 4:36 PM
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...
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...
euobserver.com
October 29, 2025 at 6:43 AM
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...
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
October 27, 2025 at 2:11 PM
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...
Democracy is not dead.
I’m absolutely exhausted in the best possible way. I love us. We did it! #NoKings
October 19, 2025 at 6:24 AM
Democracy is not dead.
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
October 19, 2025 at 6:22 AM
The person behind the book. www.theguardian.com/books/2025/o...
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...
October 16, 2025 at 5:49 AM
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...
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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October 8, 2025 at 5:32 AM
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...
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?
🚨🌍 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... [...]
#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... [...]
October 4, 2025 at 6:40 AM
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?
It sounds banal, but it isn't. The importance of fixing the potholes in our roads. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
October 4, 2025 at 6:31 AM
It sounds banal, but it isn't. The importance of fixing the potholes in our roads. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
"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
September 28, 2025 at 8:36 AM
"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...
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
September 23, 2025 at 5:12 AM
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
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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September 15, 2025 at 6:35 AM
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...
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
September 14, 2025 at 8:21 AM
Good article on freedom of expression/freedom of protest in art, and censorship www.bbc.com/culture/arti...
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!
September 2, 2025 at 4:43 PM
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!
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
August 29, 2025 at 10:47 AM
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
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?
August 25, 2025 at 6:56 AM
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?
"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/...
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
August 19, 2025 at 7:05 AM
"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/...
www.theguardian.com/environment/...