On 19 February 2016 Arie van Beek and his partner Joris Benninga, legally founded an organisation on 19 February 2016 to create sustainable safe havens in the Middle East: GreenfieldCities.org. The flow of refugees from war torn Syria seems to be at an all time high. Additional steady flows from Africa keep coming in where climate change effects are hitting hard on every day’s reality. It cannot be expected these flows will go back to a trickle in the future. With GreenfieldCities.org we want to set out a path to create sustainable cities in the Middle East with the refugees as its citizens. Read more …
