Today, my longtime Dutch friends, Hans and Marjet, are driving me to polder country - the vast fields reclaimed from the sea where cows graze, tiny canals function as fences, and only church spires ...
SINGAPORE: Singapore has completed main construction works for its first polder project, reclaiming about 800ha of land at the tip of the Pulau Tekong island off its northeastern coast. Polders are ...
DRIVE a few kilometres north-east out of Amsterdam and you gradually notice that the landscape has changed. It is, inevitably, flat. But the fields, roads and ditches start to look almost too ...
A project to build a polder in Pulau Tekong to protect the island from rising sea levels is more than halfway complete, said Minister for National Development Desmond Lee in a Facebook post yesterday.
PENNSYLVANIA, USA — When preparing meals in the kitchen or on the grill, you need to make sure your food is properly cooked. That's where the Polder Instant Read Thermometer comes in. The maker claims ...
Price: How much does it cost? Are there payment plans available? A new Polder will run prospective buyers $11,300, though second-hand options are available through outlets like 1stDibs and Chairish.
On the extremities of the West Demerara conservancy, at the furthest point of the Canal Number Two Polder road, live a quiet, peaceful and friendly group of inhabitants who simply just love the ...
SINGAPORE - A project to build a polder in Pulau Tekong to protect the island from rising sea levels is more than halfway complete, said Minister for National Development Desmond Lee in a Facebook ...
So what do polders have to do with this blog? Post Second World War Dutch society was characterised by, what the British press derisively called, the “polder model”. In essence, at a micro (and the ...