Sustainability tour of eco-friendly Amsterdam | For leisure and business markets | Marineterrein, Java, KNSM

We have created an active tour of Amsterdam focusing on sustainability. Moreover: Lex and the City has been integrating this important topic more and more into its existing private tours of unusual Amsterdam.
Below our first track and green development bike tour, you will find our 28 sustainable topics throughout Amsterdam on this page.

This themed sustainable tour takes place in two cool Amsterdam districts that Lex and the City specializes in: the Eastern Islands and the Eastern Docklands. We can offer a tailored approach if you are interested. It is also a compact experience because of the short ‘durable visits’.

 

For us the areas in the capital to 1st check for attractive, appealing sustainable hidden gems, are the East and the North of Amsterdam. That process starts with customers asking us for tailor-made eco-tours.
Amsterdam is considered as an eco-friendly town with a leading role internationally. And sustainability is embedded within us; Lex and the City.

Duurzame privé tour in Amsterdam (= comparable page in “our own mother tongue language Dutch”)

Bike track and Eco-highlights for a 2,5 hour Lex and the City sustainable development group-tour of about 10km.

The eco-biking tour includes 3 short indoor visits (15 minutes max.) to movers and shakers in the field of sustainability. It is a green development rolling tour of 2,5 to max. 3 hours, built around the eco-highlights of Marineterrein, and including parts of the Eastern Docklands, Eastern Islands and trendy Czaar Peter Quarter. Visiting Eco-friendly organizations in those areas. And not all elements marked beneath the picture with the biking ladies, will be visible probably during one tour. As it is a tailor-made concept for every group.

1. Trendy and conscious Czaar Peterstraat. Like the Cacao museum. Their cacao tributes to strengthening the local ecosystem. (Instead of the opposite, which is more the known rule.)
2. Energy-neutral houseboat on the KNSM island.
3. The circular crane hotel. Formerly a crane, now a hotel, next to Loods 6 on the KNSM island, in the Eastern Docklands.
4. The Jakarta Hotel: the green, bicycle-friendly and modern hotel that is also locally connected to this area. The dedicated hotel team on Java Island has been surprising several of our conscious private groups already with a cool Eco visit.

   

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   Biotope Dijkspark Mediamatic. With their remarkable “Pure Gold” experiment. They also fully contribute to the circular economy. Perhaps Mediamatic can also offer a sustainable vegan lunch. (on request)

6. Space for food on the Marineterrein by Amsterdam Institute for Advanced Metropolitan Solutions: AMS Institute. The goal is to convert waste water into new food, using aerospace technology and vertical farming.
7. Smart roof 2.0; also on the Marine site. One of the sustainable companies on this sustainability tour. That great view from the roof is a refreshing bonus you’d get. (However you need to do a bit of climbing as well.)
8. Living Lab with its cool Roboat. Yes, that robot boat! Marineterrein is part of the Eastern Islands; one of those Lex and the City touring specialities in Amsterdam.
9. The self-driving electric bus on the naval area. (Oli)

As the sustainable development tour​ is taking place in upcoming, trendy neighborhoods, it is not as crowded as in the town center of Amsterdam.
We start in Czaar Peterstraat, at least when you need to rent a bike first.

Availability of that eco cycle tour in Amsterdam

A question we get quite a lot: Hello, do you operate the eco-tour in the next days? Is it possible to join?
Answer: it is a private tour. A short notice private eco-tour without the promise of a visit is possible most of the time. It contains standard visits and than it needs 2 weeks of preparation. Without visits we’re considering it still interesting. 

Pricing and terms and conditions for this private, durable bike tour

We prepare three eco-visits for every group. Three triggers. We only offer this service with this durable tour. These brief visits have been free of charge until June 2025. This is because we were still in the process of fine-tuning this sustainable Lexperience.
From 15 June, 2025, onwards, we will charge €100 (including Dutch VAT) more for this sustainability tour in particular. This applies to the group as a whole.
Standard rates and general pricing page. Lex and the City rates for tours and other leisure experiences in Amsterdam: Lex and the city rates for tours and other leisure experiences in Amsterdam.

 

An example of a tailor-made durable tour of Amsterdam (2025)

With pleasure and passion, we conduct the sustainable tour of Amsterdam for you and your group of 18 students studying eco-design and 2 professors.

The tailor-made quotation is based on your request:

• Going to the North, including de Ceuvel and its shipyard. Tailor-made sustainable bike tour in English (or French) with no additional costs.
• Location: we start at the Windmill of Amsterdam East or at the bike rental around the corner. We finish at De Ceuvel, including a tour of the shipyard.
• Basis, and from there carrying on to the tailor-made sustainable tour. (The bike tour is taking place in East and Central East. It includes Mediamatic. And then goes to “Noord”.
• The sustainable bike tour starts at 9:00 AM and finishes at 12:30 PM. (3,5 hours)

28 green & conscious, locations popping up in our mind for being part of sustainable & unusual tours in Amsterdam:

• • • Eco-friendly living community on the water: Schoonschip (Check the 1st Instagram post beneath ⇓)
    • De Kas (In Watergraafsmeer)
    • Valley at South-Axis (Zuid-As): Extraordinary building AND producing more energy than it consumes. (It has opened on November 17th, 2021.
    • QO Hotel Ruby Emma Hotel with it’s rooftop garden with a high-tech greenhouse.
    • Jakarta Hotel (zero emission, we mean energy neutral.) More about this energy neutral hotel in this eco article in the Independant. 
    • Biotoop Mediamatic Dijkspark
    • De Ceuvel, this hotspot for sustainability in Amsterdam North is one of the hidden treasures in this (pretty popular) Lex and the City blogpost.

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      Noorderlicht (NDSM wharf) 

    • What happens concerning durability on The Marine Establishment (a lot! :) ) Like Rainroof 2.0, Roboat and Space for food. The AMS institute plays a central role in sustainability on the Marine-terrein.
    • VanMoof bikes (Your tour-guide has tried one of their world-widely sold E-bikes.)
    • What is about to happen happening in Bajes Quarter (Amsterdam East) Now building a 100% energy neutral quarter out of the remains of a former (famous) prison. Including green roofs.
    • Haak-In, with a heart for turning plastic garbage into new destinations. 
    • Science Park
    • The zero emission hotel on IJburg: Breeze Hotel. Four Elements Hotel. (An example of a so-called eco hotel in Amsterdam East)
    • Friday Night Skate Amsterdam (Of which your out of the box local guide is volunteer of since 1998.)
    • The 2 former gas stations amidst Noorderpark. (recycling)
    • “HAUT”. Chk Instagram post ⇓ Eco-friendly wooden tower in trendy Amstelkwartier.
    • Impact Hub
    • The neighborhood energy monitor project in the Eastern Docklands: How much is being used AND how much is being generated by the locals? By Resourcefully. (Chk the picture beneath as well with eco-friendly owner Hugo Niessing.)

      

       

    • The green city parks, the lungs of the city. (like Noorderpark and Oosterpark.)
    • Czaar Peterstraat: Instock (fight food-waste) Is this the recycle main street of Amsterdam?
    • Het Faire Oosten. (Discover in this store in Oostpoort what fair fashion is doing differently from fast fashion.
    • The worm hotel, for example on the Barcelona square, initiated by Rudy Klaassen. Residents save GFT and share it with the worms. The products compost and worm tea are used again by the residents to green the neighborhood.
    • The Oyster Mushrooms project, initiated from a place in the Eastern Docklands.
    • Neighborhood garden “Oost-Indisch Groen”.
    • The sustainable houseboat in the Levant neighborhood port on KNSM Island, Eastern Docklands.
    • City agriculture project “Noordoogst”. (Agricultural Cooperative)

Biking, footbiking and inline skating in the city is durable as well.

We are acting sustainable as well, by offering active tours, consciously using muscles; experiences (Lexperiences), in the city by bike, on inline skates, by footbike (scooter) and walking tours. And in times of less demand for tour experiences, like during the 1st part of the Corona Crisis, we tend to turn into a green, sporty courier on wheels in the city.

Call Lex at +31 6 55 33 77 26 for a customized bike tour, or carry on reading what Lex and the City is all about (Watch out: we are unusual to the bone!).
The full green bike tour needs to be reserved a few weeks in advance, as we need to prepare well, including visits.
Last minutes (seconds?) are possible as well, however maybe with less visits.

When riding an ecological biking tour in Amsterdam?

Does everyone know how to bike well? This is a must.
In case it is Saturday, we prefer you to plan in the morning. Saturday afternoon is the busiest time of the whole week and therefore not ideal. Midweek starting 2:00 PM is the best time, as rush hours start at 4. Even better is to plan earlier, as it happens quite a lot groups arrive later and we prefer to avoid rush hours and also to disappoint groups while arriving.
Sunday is the safest and most relaxed day for a private Sustainability Biking Tour, however offices are closed.

Amsterdam has been voted number 2 city in the world in 2021 by Time Out magazine, partly because of it’s sustainability and it’s green character.

Or I refer you to the Lex and the City landing tour page private guide Amsterdam

Cheers.

Lex

 

 

 

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