Green Life Volunteers offers various volunteering projects, but Green Life Volunteers is not the only organization that offers volunteering projects in the region. Despite the fact that the competitors from Green Live Volunteers commercialized organizations are and that they receive a lot more for their …

The current situation of the Icelandic dairy production and the desire of the Icelandic farmers are the occasion of this study. The main objective of the study is to identify opportunities in feeding management to improve the production of the Icelandic dairy farms. The four important subjects within …

Een systeem om je grasland zo goed mogelijk te benutten door verliezen te beperkten is zomerstalvoeren (Hogenkamp, Weg met voerverliezen, 2015). Een volgende stap op zomerstalvoeren waar men in Nederland nog niet bekend is, is het principe van de Grazer van Future Grasstechnology. Het principe van deze …

Urban Expression seeks to plant exciting, grass-roots, transformative ways of being church in inner city neighbourhoods. In doing this they work from a set of values, one of which describes faith as a journey. This essay looks at how this value is worked out in three English Urban Expression churches, …

Heathland, with its frail character, has always been one of the most essential habitats for almost all indigenous reptile species in the Netherlands. Situated in the Drents-Friese Wold National Park, the Doldersummerveld ranks as one of the best developed heathland areas of Western Europe and counts …

Biogas plays an important role in many future renewable energy scenarios as a source of storable and easily extracted form of renewable energy. However, there remains uncertainty as to which sources of biomass can provide a net energy gain while being harvested in a sustainable, ecologically friendly …

Biodiversity, including entire habitats and ecosystems, is recognized to be of great social and economic value. Conserving biodiversity has therefore become a task of international NGO’s as well as grass-roots organisations. The ‘classical’ model of conservation has been characterised by creation of …

Horses are non-ruminant animals and their digestive tract is designed to digest fibrous roughage. In the wild they mostly eat grasses supplemented with herbs and parts of shrubs and trees. Generally, they eat mostly young, nutritious grasses which are short. Topics which will be discussed are obesities, …

The European Ground Squirrel (Spermophilus citellus) is an endemic, non-social, hibernating rodent, distributed through several Pan-European countries. Its habitat is semi-arid grass steppes and analogical man-made landscapes with short vegetation layers, such as meadows and golf courses. Since 1996, …

Het onderzoeksrapport is geschreven om een beter inzicht te krijgen in de mogelijkheden de draagkracht te vergroten op met name (groene) parkeer- en/of manifestatieterreinen in gebieden met slappe ondergrond.