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If you live inside one of the houses in a new neighborhood being built in an Amsterdam suburb, your dining room might be next to an indoor vegetable garden. Outside, you'll have another seasonal garden. And down the street, almost everything you eat will be grown in high-tech vertical farms.

The neighborhood will be the first ReGen Village, a new type of community designed to be fully self-sufficient, growing its own food, making its own energy, and handling its own waste in a closed loop.

Smart City Embassy shows all smart city initiatives in the Netherlands that can be visited. So if you're interested in what is happening outside of Amsterdam or want to visit some projects, you should definitely take a look. Please reach out to me if you have a project or organisation to show on the embassy website and I'll send you the template.

The IoT Living Lab provides public networks, open infrastructure and data for developers to accelerate emerging IoT innovations for Smart City solutions. We do this by engaging developers and citizens in public spaces using a bottom up, crowd sourcing approach to innovate by "sandboxing" the city.

Rooftop Revolution is an independent foundation and supports in sustainable roof projects.

The Energy Atlas stimulates the use of renewable energy, as citizens will become more aware of their own energy usage and realise that there are gains to be made.

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