The Himalayan kingdom of Bhutan has recently Happiness declared a national objective. But that's not all. Bhutan has also set itself the goal of producing only organic food. This means that Bhutan, alongside DenmarkThe United Kingdom is one of the first two countries in the world to have this task on its agenda.
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Commenting on the agreement between the EU Commission, Council and Parliament on the further expansion of renewable energies in Europe Julia Verlindenspokeswoman for Alliance 90/The Greens in the German Bundestag for energy policy:In contrast, the expansion target for renewable energies in Europe is falling far short of requirements. Economics Minister Altmaier is currently driving the energy transition against the wall, and not just in Germany. He has also done his utmost in Brussels to ensure that the expansion targets are set too low. We need much more renewable energy and also more energy efficiency in order to ensure a clean energy supply and achieve the Paris climate protection targets. After all, climate protection is about nothing less than our livelihoods.
Press release Alliance 90/The Greens from 14 June 2018
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Prof. Maja Göpel is a member of the Scientific Advisory Board of the German Federal Government and a member of Scientists for Future. She criticizes that Germany's climate goals cannot be achieved with the climate package of the Grand Coalition.
Volker Quaschning in an interview: "Expectations massively undercut".
www.zdf.de/...volker-quaschning-zum-klimapaket...
"The reactions to the key points on climate protection adopted by the Climate Cabinet last Friday are predominantly negative from the point of view of renewable energies. Representatives of associations are positive about the planned increase in the construction of offshore wind farms. "The lifting of the 52 GW cap on photovoltaics is also to be welcomed," says Marie-Luise Wolff, President of the German Association of Energy and Water Industries (BDEW). The BDEW President also sees it as positive that the coalition was finally able to bring itself to exempt energy storage systems from existing levies."
www.solarserver.de/...klimaschutzplaene-nicht-ausreichend.html
The Frankfurter Rundschau writes: "The climate policy reform package that the grand coalition has now brought about does not live up to the claim. More electric cars on the road, more rail travel, less flying - measures that advance this are steps in the right direction. But instead of specifically displacing fossil energies, a hodgepodge of expensive subsidy measures is supposed to encourage people to act in a climate-friendly way. What is lacking above all is a consistent dismantling of subsidies that are harmful to the climate and the environment, which have just the opposite effect and amount to more than 50 billion euros annually - including the diesel privilege and the commuter tax allowance. They prevent climate-damaging behaviour from becoming expensive and climate-friendly behaviour from becoming worthwhile. Their gradual melting would also free up funds to finance the climate protection turnaround. But the grand coalition has once again caved in to the lobby interests that are stonewalling against it, and the conjured-up climate crisis does nothing to change that."
www.fr.de/meinung/pillepalle-20-klimaschutzpaket-wird-anspruch-weitem-nicht-gerecht-13023518.html
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City planners present two new scenarios for Patrick Henry Village at the IBA Citizens' Forum. Both plan with more residents.
Read article from 17.12.2016 on:
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The Ecological model settlement in Prinz Eugen Park in Munich, currently the largest contiguous timber housing estate in Europe, was presented.
The Holzbaunetzwerk München organized a guided tour through the ecological model settlement in Prinz Eugen Park in Munich on 24.05.2019. In 2009, on the initiative of the Green Party, the City Council of the City of Munich decided to build an ecological model settlement with 600 apartments in timber construction in the new district on the site of the former Prinz Eugen barracks in Bogenhausen. Based on the urban design by GSP Architects with Rainer Schmidt Landscape Architects, eight developers, the municipal housing associations GEWOFAG and GWG München, building communities and building cooperatives have developed timber construction projects ranging from atrium houses to seven-storey residential buildings. Today, all projects are under construction and some will be completed this year.
The Holzbaunetzwerk München could welcome about 400 guests. The architects of the model settlement presented their projects to interested visitors, builders, urban planners, timber construction companies, architects, investors and citizens in two parallel guided tours on 24.05.2019 in the course of a tour through the quarter. The various timber construction methods, from pure timber construction to hybrid construction methods with reinforced concrete staircases to reinforced concrete skeleton construction with timber facades, were vividly explained using the projects.
Presented were the projects of the building cooperative WOGENO with the Quartierszentrale by Mr. Florian Lünstedt from the office Atelier 5 Architekten Bern, the GEWOFAG by Jakub Pakula and Eduard Fischer, Pakula & Fischer Architekten Stuttgart, the GWG München by Stefan Rapp, Rapp Architekten Ulm, the building community Team3 by Architekturwerkstatt Vallentin München Dorfen, the building community München GbR by Sibylle Hüther, H2R and PlanZ Architekten from Munich, the Baugemeinschaft Gemeinsam Größer II by Markus Borst, agmm Architekten+Stadtplaner Munich with Hable Architekten, the Baugenossenschaft Bürgerbauverein München eG by Markus Lager, Kaden + Lager Architekten Berlin and the Baugemeinschaft Der kleine Prinz by Ulf Rössler, dressler mayerhofer rössler architekten und stadtplaner GmbH Munich.
Afterwards, at 6 p.m., a panel discussion with the city councillors Ms. Heide Rieke (SPD), Mr. Herbert Danner (Die Grünen), Ms. Ulrike Klar, (City Director, Department of Urban Planning of the City of Munich) and Ms. Gerda Peter (Managing Director of GWG Munich) on the future of timber construction in Munich rounded off the event. It was discussed how the path taken can become a model for further new building areas, what lessons can be learned from the Ecological Model Settlement and how a promotion of timber construction can be designed for the future planning areas of the Bayerkaserne, the urban extensions in the east and north and the redevelopment area of Neuperlach. To this end, the Holzbaunetzwerk München wants to launch the Holzbaustadt München 2030 initiative with at least 2030 residential units in timber construction. How it works could be seen in the Prinz Eugenpark on 24.05.2019.
The Holzbaunetzwerk München was founded in 2018 by Andreas Lerge (Wood Real Estate GmbH) Thomas Kapfer Architekt and Ulf Rössler Architekt (dressler mayerhofer rössler architekten und stadtplaner GmbH). The Holzbaunetzwerk wants to work to connect the stakeholders from politics, administration, planning and business, to engage in the further promotion of timber construction in Munich and to initiate the vision of the timber construction city Munich 2030.
Link Holzbaunetzwerk Munich
www.holzbaunetzwerk.com
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