New Diepgang episode: Charting the limits at the IABR
From his window, Theodor Reinhardt sees the flickering lights of the refineries. Banal, he calls it – so ordinary you almost overlook it. It led him to delve into how it all connects. Reinhardt – cartographer, researcher and designer, trained as an architect at TU Delft – maps those connections in his work ‘You can […]
The sustainable biomass myth: what public money should really be spent on
Is burning biomass to generate energy a good idea? According to the Dutch government it is, since it supports companies producing this form of ‘green power’ with billions in subsidies. But the sustainability claim is a myth, as the investigative journalism programme Zembla revealed on 10 September, in an episode about the link between energy […]
Join the conversation: take part in our class at the After Summer School
Can the Port of Rotterdam – Europe’s gateway – transform to operate within all nine planetary boundaries? At the After Summer School, join One Planet Port’s researchers, citizen scientists and policy advisors in conversation about the port’s impact and consider what it means in your own life. During the After Summer School 2026 (23 – […]
New episode of Diepgang: time for relationship therapy
In episode four of Diepgang – the series in which One Planet Port gives the floor to people with their own critical perspective on how the port affects their surroundings – researcher Christel Voncken shares her story. Christel moved to Schiemond to study, a neighbourhood right on the Maas in Rotterdam. From there she looks […]
From classroom to quayside: three workshops on ports within planetary boundaries
Seven of the nine planetary boundaries defined by science have been breached. Ports sit right in the middle of this crisis: as end nodes of the global maritime system, they enable the flows that push the Earth past its limits. This summer, One Planet Port brought that message across in workshops for researchers from the […]
Latest episode of Diepgang: going circular at the local market
In episode three of video series ‘Diepgang’, Christine van Meegen from Studio C.A.R.E. takes to the market in Rotterdam’s Bospolder-Tussendijken neighbourhood. Every Thursday and Saturday, she and local residents collect plastic and other waste with the BoTu Bakje – in exchange for a voucher redeemable for vegetables, lunch, or a small gift at nearby initiatives. […]
‘This is where a transition can happen, and it should’ – One Planet Port in TV series ‘Pioniers’
One Planet Port features in ‘Pioniers’, a six-part TV series by programme maker Eric Creemers. Creemers portrays pioneers building a new economy for the city and the port, and asks experts where things really stand. The series aired in June and July 2026 and can be watched in full on Open Rotterdam. In the final episode, Creemers […]
Who sets the course of the port’s energy transition? Students map the balance of power for OPP
Who sets the course of the port’s energy transition? That question was at the heart of the graduation project of five Master’s students from Erasmus University Rotterdam: Anton Driessen, Elena Kuznetsova Kifulyak, Lucio Cardozo Morales, Thaïs Gaillard and Roan But. For the Master Societal Transitions programme, connected to transitions institute DRIFT, they carried out action […]
New episode of Diepgang: the gap between law and justice
In episode two of video series ‘Diepgang’, Rotterdam resident Rene Visser asks an uncomfortable question: why are international climate agreements and court rulings – including binding ones, such as those of the European Court of Human Rights – so rarely taken seriously? He examines the gap between what is legally established and what governments and […]
One Planet Port launches video series ‘Diepgang – Verhalen uit de haven’
The Port of Rotterdam is the logistical heart of Europe and moves the world. It can feel distant – a vast industrial machine operating on a scale that seems to have little to do with everyday life. But its consequences are anything but abstract – and the stories of people who live and work in […]