Amsterdam community action
The aim of this page is to recognise, celebrate and encourage the self-empowerment of community agency networks (CANs) and community groups' activism for climate, environment and many other sustainability topics across Amsterdam.
News
How refugees are helping Amsterdam become one of the first circular cities, positive.news (Jul 18, 2023) - Amsterdam’s floating eco-community is a model for modern living, positive.news (Jun 05, 2023)
- Velotopia (meaning a paradise for bike-riders) is currently being built in Amsterdam, the Ruhr in Germany and South Korea, The Daily Alternative (Feb 08, 2023)
- ‘You have to find your own recipe’: Dutch suburb where residents must grow food on at least half of their property, theguardian.com (Nov 28, 2024)
- The Hague becomes world’s first city to pass legislation making it illegal to advertise fossil fuel products and services with a high carbon footprint, theguardian.com (Sep 13, 2024) — this includes petrol and diesel, aviation and cruise ships
- The city where ‘the future has already arrived’, positive.news (Mar 18, 2024)
- Riding the rail revival: how holidays by train are drawing the discerning traveller, positive.news (Mar 07, 2025)
- Carbon capture in Mediterranean soil: how farmland can trap greenhouse gases, theconversation.com (Jan 30, 2025)
- Despite 2024’s ‘greenlash’, the fight against climate breakdown can still be won. Here’s how. Björn Bremer, Jane Gingrich and Hanna Schwander, theguardian.com (Dec 06, 2024)
- ‘Global weirding’: climate whiplash hitting world’s biggest cities, study reveals, theguardian.com (Mar 12, 2025)
- Only seven countries worldwide meet WHO dirty air guidelines, study shows, theguardian.com (Mar 11, 2025) — Governments could clean their air with policies such as funding renewable energy projects and public transport; building infrastructure to encourage walking and cycling; and banning people from burning farm waste.
- Many cities are banning ads for airlines, SUVs and fossil fuels – and yours could be next, theconversation.com (Mar 10, 2025)
Video
Networks and sustainability initiatives
- Amsterdam Donut Coalition, added 13:06, 8 February 2022 (UTC)
Each week 3 different short videos from across the world.
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Environment quality
ClairCity, Eu project about air pollution and CO2 emissions in cities, putting the power in the hands of residents to determine the best local solutions.
Cycling activism
More video: Amsterdam bike ride on a sunny day
wikipedia:Cycling in Amsterdam: Amsterdam is the most bicycle-friendly capital city in the world. In Amsterdam, over 60% of trips are made by bike in the inner city and 38% of trips are made by bike overall in the greater city area. Though to people outside of the Netherlands, Amsterdam is considered one of most famous and important centres of bicycle culture worldwide, in contrast to other, smaller Dutch cities, Amsterdam is actually not at the top in terms of bike-friendliness. For instance, Amsterdam is not on the short-list for the Fietsstad 2014 (BikeCity 2014) awards, announced by the Dutch Fietsersbond (Cyclists' Union). The cities of The Hague, Eindhoven and Almere are on this list for 2014 while the Netherlands' most bicycle-friendly city of Groningen won the award back in 2001.
Reduce, reuse, repair and recycle
- United Repair Centre, "high-quality clothing repair services, extending the life cycle of clothing items as we strive to create positive environmental impact. At the same time, we create local employment opportunities by providing training and employment opportunities to newcomers with refugee backgrounds, young adults and other job seekers with a distance to the labour market." added 15:15, 22 July 2023 (UTC)
Sharing
Amsterdam sharing city, iamsterdam.com (date not found)
About Amsterdam
Past events
- September 14, 2014, Amsterdam Solar Boat Parade
Amsterdam ( AM-stər-dam, UK also AM-stər-DAM; Dutch: [ˌɑmstərˈdɑm] ; lit. 'Dam in the Amstel') is the capital and most populated city of the Netherlands. It has a population of 933,680 in June 2024 within the city proper, 1,457,018 in the urban area and 2,480,394 in the metropolitan area. Located in the Dutch province of North Holland, Amsterdam is colloquially referred to as the "Venice of the North", for its large number of canals, now a UNESCO World Heritage Site.