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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...

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...

A fantastic green product

Neste MY Renewable Diesel is now available for purchase at seventy petrol stations in the Netherlands. Finnish fuel producer Neste has a huge refinery in...

Recycled Park: floating plastic waste turned into sustainable green space

Plastic waste is a big problem. Enormous piles of floating plastic in our oceans, drifting waste in our rivers, on our beaches and in our...

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...

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...

BLIJSTROOM; ENERGY FOR AND BY ROTTERDAM RESIDENTS

Jelte Boeijenga is acting managing director of Blijstroom, an energy cooperative founded in 2013 by Rotterdam citizens with the aim of taking control of the...

Roof garden with trees on reflective Boijmans Van Beuningen art depot

Architect Arjen Ketting: 'This would only be possible in Rotterdam'You will only hear the city sounds of Rotterdam from a distance on the roof of...

No dirt in the air in 2030

Air quality in Rotterdam must be improved, and by 2030 the City Council wants CO2 emissions to be half those of 1990. The municipality 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...