Levi’s last month opened a new two-story store on Kalverstraat. The 2700 square feet store’s interior is full of reused, restored and repurposed materials.

Amsterdam is not noted for great weather, but its citizen’s bicycling prowess rain or shine shames the rest of us.

Villa Velpeloo is a new modern home in Enschede that is about a two hour drive east of Amsterdam. The house is uber-modern and is a pleading modern design of mostly wood, glass, and steel. Its exterior is also constructed from 60% used construction materials, and the interior of the houses boasts 90% recycled content.

Months ago I spent some time in Amsterdam covering the Global Reporting Initiative’s conference.  As fantastic as the conference turned out, I was encapsulated in a huge events center for a few days.  So when the weekend arrived, it felt great to be outside to explore the city.  The first market I visited was mostly [...]

She left us almost 18 years ago, but thankfully Audrey Hepburn has left a rich legacy not only because of her films, but her devotion to children around the world from Somalia to Bangladesh.

The Aalsmeer Flower Auction is a lesson in international trade. With all the cry over buying local, the fact is that so many around the globe make their livelihood off the hauling of goods across the world’s borders. Depending on what data you read, only about 5% of products ship by air—but that small fraction accounts for about 90% of the total value of goods traded by nations.

Each day about 600 trucks from Amsterdam and 18 other cities drive up a huge ramp to the waste-to-fuel power plant, which lies in the western dockyards of this city of 750,000. The two incineration plants, built in 1993 and 2007, turn about 1.4 million tons of garbage into electricity.

Politicians love public works projects because it gives them a lasting legacy, and Amsterdam is no exception. The city leaders approved extending the underground metro to the city’s northern section, which currently is separated from the south by the Het Ij.