It’s no surprise to us that The Netherlands has a lot of sustainable cities. Amsterdam is always the first one to come to everyone’s minds, but there’s way more to explore! In this blog post set, I will talk about 5 sustainable cities, what you can see and where you can stay. Each blog post will be dedicated to a city and this one will be dedicated to Utrecht!

Utrecht is one of the most sustainable cities in the world and the most sustainable in The Netherlands! And let me tell you they’re doing an amazing job! Let´s see what this city is doing for the environment for example.

In Utrecht, all the bus stops have green roofs or solar panels and when I say all it’s literally all! And as if this was not enough they even went in detail on knowing which plants they place on the roofs so they can attract birds, bees and butterflies, keeping a space for the pollinators on the city. The benches of the bus stops are made with recycled concrete and bamboo and they only use efficient LED lights.

The covering of the bus stops was just a “small” project to prepare the next step: covering all the city roofs with gardens or solar panels! And a very interesting project happening is the Vertical Forest Tower which will be done by 2022. The city wants to apply the bus stops scheme to buildings and this tower will be the big reference! This tower alone will absorb more than 54 tons of carbon dioxide and give 41 tons of oxygen back to the city. It will be the equivalent of a full hectare of woods and it will be composed by more than 10 thousand plants! How cool is this? You can find out more about this project here, from where I took the pictures above.

That’s the plan until 2022 and by 2028 Utrecht plans to have all the public transports using clean electricity.