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Trompenburg Gardens & Arboretum
Trompenburg Gardens & Arboretum is a beautiful botanical garden featuring an extensive collection of trees, shrubs, perennials, bulbs, and tubers. Located on the edge of...
50 plan which will make Rotterdam even better
CityLab010: Working Together to Make Rotterdam Greener, Cleaner, Safer and More Social Plastilose produces 100% biodegradable drinking straws made from bacterial cellulose derived from waste...
Drive on bioethanol from Rotterdam
Do you ever consider what you are actually filling up at the gas station? Europe’s largest biorefinery is located in the heart of the Port of...
‘Rotterdam is our living lab’
Heat and drought, alternating with awesome downpours. This might sound frightening. Then again, you could also consider it to be an opportunity, which is what...
Rotterdam and RET are cleaning up the air
You see them every day on the city’s streets: 97 electric buses from RET and 38 emission-free bin lorries. And there are many more to...
Rotterdam. Home port for innovative floating solutions.
The world’s rapidly growing population, climate change, rising sea levels, land scarcity, the continuing search for practical, sustainable solutions to economic challenges and the simple...
A mirrored flower pot filled with art
Architect Arjen Ketting: 'In any other city, this wouldn’t have been possible.'With the Depot, Rotterdam gained a new icon. The mirrored building with its unique...
Young pioneer wants to shape Rotterdam into a green and fair city
Student Mina Morkoç (24) was recently sworn in as a member of the Rotterdam City Council. She studies Law and Tax Law at Erasmus University...
Campus in transition: building a green future together
Erasmus University Rotterdam (EUR) is building a future-proof and sustainable Campus Woudestein. In 2022, two new energy-neutral buildings were completed: the Langeveld Building and the...
Costume made of Rotterdam wool.
Together with two subcontractors, city shepherd Martin Oosthoek herds 2,500 sheep in and around Rotterdam. Good for biodiversity. And for the local wool supply …...