Tag: Amsterdam

  • Amsterdam RAI Convention Centre Goes Greener

    Convention Centres are Huge Consumers of everything and generators of waste. Here is one that appears to address it seriously.

  • Profile: An American in Amsterdam Talks About Bike Culture (Video)

    Julie A. Ruterbories, the U.S. Consul General in Amsterdam, discusses her experience with bike culture in the Netherlands and what we can learn from it.

  • European Cities Crack Down On Free Parking to Reduce Car Use, Make Room for Biking, Walking

    What needs to be done to get more people out of their cars? Offer incentives for taking public transportation? Make driving more expensive? It's a

  • Rush Hour Looks Better By Bike - VIDEO

    In this short, speed-enhanced video from Mark Wagenbuur, (via David Hembrow's A View From the Cyclepath), the morning commute looks just a little bit frightening, though certainly it looks a lot better than crawling along with a car. To make you own

  • Should Bike Scofflaws Get Police Scrutiny?

    In Eugene, Oregon - though a much smaller city than Portland, it too is a bastion of bike riding - today, the Eugene Police Department is planning a traffic sting - what it calls a

  • PICNIC'09 in Amsterdam: Green Challenge & Cradle to Cradle Amongst Other Inspriations

    September is PICNIC month in Amsterdam! This year's media, technology, entertainment, art and science festival seems yet a little bit greener than last year, and promises to be inspiring with Cradle to Cradle workshop labs this week.The PICNIC labs

  • Pedal-Powered Beer Bikes Could Be Banned

    Amsterdam doesn't have a bikes ambassador as prolific as CopenhagenCycleChic, but it does have the bierfiets, a bicycle-driven ambulatory beer bar, as well as constant inspiration supplied by its many bikers showing what can (and perhaps what cannot)

  • First Environmental Film Festival Comes to Amsterdam

    June 5 & 6 at The Ketelhuis Cinema in Amsterdam you can get your fill of environmental flicks, interviews with directors and even a few world premieres, as the first environmental film festival comes to Amsterdam this spring.

  • Need Some More Room? Add A Hammokum

    G10 Design have come up with the Hammokum, an interesting idea for a sort of hammock balcony that clips on to the facade of your apartment. The designers start with a very TreeHugger principle: "Remember: the least you have the freer you are!"

  • A Repair Manifesto

    Platform21 is "a platform for people curious about the future." They organize exhibitions and lectures from an old chapel in Amsterdam. Their current project, launching on March 13, is one dear to our hearts: Repair, not recycle. Their manifesto is

  • Amsterdam Edging Ahead of Copenhagen as Most Bike-Loving Euro-Capital?

    Both Copenhagen and Amsterdam can be proud of their impressive cycling statistics and ongoing investment in infrastructure. Copenhagen claims 36 percent of its commuters bike to work every morning. Amsterdam gives a slightly different and still

  • Get the Night + Day City Guides for 45% Off

    Today's TreeHugger Deal comes to you from San Francisco-based Night+Day Guides. The Night+Day, Cool Cities Series is the platinum (and green!) standard for sophisticated urbanista travelers. Printed on high quality recycled paper and containing the

  • Strawberry Earth Puts Your Party Money to Work to Produce an Eco-Bar

    Inspired by TreeHugger (they say), the folks behind the new online magazine company Strawberry Earth are going to put your dollars (or in this case euros) from a night of partying to work eco-pimping

  • A Little Sea Level Rise Won't Hurt Anyone, Will It?

    What better way to raise awareness of global warming on Amsterdam canals than a pair of realistic looking inflatable hands and a sign with a catchy message? One would think this was a bit of preaching to the choir in the

  • Slow Inspiration in Amsterdam

    During the coming weekend (11-12 October) in Amsterdam, slowLab will unveil the first ‘Slow Loket,’ a pop-up resource center for Slow Design information and inspiration, featuring live talks, films,

  • Slow Report from PICNIC'08

    PICNIC 2008 has come and gone here in Amsterdam. One of the themes of his year’s conference was ‘Green,’ which is ironic given the massive amounts of energy and resources that obviously were consumed to put on this spectacle of international speakers,

  • A Lesson from Amsterdam: Reducing Our Transportation Carbon Footprint

    Amsterdam is all about clean air, which is one of the reasons that the company City Cargo has been able to start and succeed with a rather simple but revolutionary idea. One of the biggest polluters on the road in Amsterdam is

  • Climate Saving Is No PICNIC, But Is Possibly Worth A $750,000 Prize

    Give us - or rather the PICNIC Green Challenge - your best climate-friendly, greenhouse-gas-cutting idea, and it could be worth a $750,000 cash prize sponsored by

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