Amsterdam - Green City
Thursday, March 18th, 2015
$100,000,000
Cesar Porcayo, Thy Vu, Nyima Piaro, and Francisco Vargas
AMSTERDAM IS KNOWN AS
the most bike-friendly city.
BASIC FACTS
Bike City
- Amsterdam is Netherlands' largest city.
- The population of Amsterdam is about 820,000 people.
- In a year, Amsterdam has approximately 3.5 million tourists.
- Amsterdam has 28 parks, 165 canals, and 6 windmills.
- Most diverse with 178 nationalities
- About 3/4 of Amsterdam residents own a bike.
- Citizens use bikes more than cars as transportation.
- Some guess that there are about 881,000 bikes in Amsterdam (more than the population).
- To make it easy for bike users, Amsterdam has protected paths, racks, and parking
- Bike paths length to about 400 km.
How else is Amsterdam green?
Amsterdam is part of a Programme Agreement 2010-2014 to make Amsterdam more sustainable by focusing on four pillars:
Climate & Energy, Mobility & Air Quality, Sustainable Innovative Economy, and Materials & Consumers.
- European Green City ranked Amsterdam as 5th in overall environmental performance.
- The heating network is most efficient in Europe since it uses biomass and biogas in sewage and waste for heat and electricity.
- Recycles 43% of waste
- Densely populated and compact, so not much land space is used
- Waterways and canals reduce land use