Last week, we detailed the first half of Lorrae Rominger’s  recent outreach trip to Europe , where she met with 2005 Goldman Prize recipient Stephanie Roth in Berlin, Germany.  The second part of her trip brought Rominger  (Interim Executive Director of the Goldman Prize) to Belgium, where she attended the  Europarc 2012  Conference  and reconnected with the event’s host – 2008 Goldman Prize recipient Ignace Schops . Europarc is one of Europe’s largest annual nature conferences. This year the conference was held in Genk , Belgium, for the first time in 39 years- thanks to the efforts of Schops and his organization Regionaal Landschap Kempen and Maasland ( RLKM ). Over 650 people from 40 countries attended four-day conference, including representatives from hundreds of environmental NGOs and politicians from all levels of government. The EU Commissioner for the Environment Janez Potocnik addressed the crowd during the opening ceremony. Several