Al Gore is visiting the Netherlands this week, so naturally his every move makes the news.

Yesterday he helped launch the institute for sustainable and innovative technology with a special focus on water management and clean energy. This institute will be based in the Rotterdam Port area, on a futuristic floating structure. It will be opened in 2009 and among the key players in this project: WWF, Delt University of Technology, Eneco, and Erasmus University of Rotterdam.

Gore's big message was to encourage the Netherlands to invest even more in wind and solar power and abandon any plans to build more coal plants.

Interesting for visitors will be 2009 when you can go see this cutting edge institute at work in Rotterdam.