Wim Has Wanted to Make His National Monument More Sustainable for Years, but that Was Not Allowed, Until He Came up with Something

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The Netherlands has high climate ambitions. Except in the historic city centres, where solar panels are not allowed on the roofs of national monuments. They are considered ‘the city’s calling card’. The Amersfoort monument owner Wim van Rooijen installed them anyway and asked passers-by for their opinion. “I call it a test in civil disobedience.”