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Old Neustadt in Bremen becomes a model bicycle district

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Federal Environment Ministry provides 2.4 million euros from the Climate Protection Fund

The Senator for the Environment, Building and Transport and the Bremen University of Applied Sciences jointly applied for funding in a competitive procedure in the "Federal Competition for Climate Protection in Cycling" of the National Climate Protection Initiative (NKI) for a "Bicycle Model Quarter Alte Neustadt Bremen - from bicycle street to bicycle zone". Now, after many rounds of negotiations, the funding decisions for the implementation of the bicycle model quarter have been received by the Senator for the Environment, Building and Transport (1,576,361 euros) and the Bremen University of Applied Sciences (834,835 euros).

Link:
www.adfc-bremen.de/news/news-details/datum/2017/03/07/alte-neustadt-in-bremen-wird-fahrrad-modellquartier.html


Keywords: Bike-/Velo-City, News Blog Bremen, Quarters, Settlements

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Explanatory film: Energetic urban redevelopment
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Explanatory film: Energetic urban redevelopment

Exploit potential at neighbourhood level!

The KfW programme "Energy-efficient urban refurbishment" promotes integrated energy-efficient neighbourhood concepts and refurbishment management with programme part 432. Programme parts 201 and 202 provide investment support for cross-building and infrastructural supply systems. The Federal Ministry of the Interior, for Building and the Home Affairs provides the funding for the energy refurbishment process from the individual building to the neighbourhood from the Energy and Climate Fund (EKF).

Further information:
www.energetische-stadtsanierung.info



Keywords:
Stock, DE-News, Movies, Movies < 4 Min, Funding, Climate protection, Quarters, Settlements, Thermal insulation

Ermekeilinitiative: VHS and BDA explore the Ermekeil barracks
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Ermekeilinitiative: VHS and BDA explore the Ermekeil barracks

As part of a VHS theme series, those interested can discuss the further development of the former barracks site this coming Saturday.

The series of events "Urban Design in Dialogue" aims to encourage citizens to think about the design of specific areas and buildings in Bonn and to influence their future development. On Saturday, 25 March, the programme includes a tour of the former Ermekeil barracks in Bonn's Südstadt. The VHS Bonn in cooperation with the Association of German Architects Bonn-Rhein-Sieg and the Ermekeilinitiative e.V. have invited participants.

The site of the former barracks was handed over by the Federal Ministry of Defence in 2013 to the Bundesanstalt für Immobilienaufgaben (BimA), which is responsible for its further administration, utilisation and finally sale. Since 2015, a large part of the area has been used as refugee accommodation by the state of NRW.

Since 2005, the Ermekeilinitiative e. V. has been actively promoting the civil use of the site as a social, cultural and ecologically sustainable meeting place. The current 300 square metres include an urban gardening project and an event space where integrative projects for the neighbourhood and refugees take place.

On the day of the event, the association will introduce the topic and be available for further questions.

More information on the event and the thematic series can be found on the VHS Bonn website at: .

Source: Press release Ermekeilinitiative, 14.03.2017



Keywords:
Stock, Bonn, News Blog NRW, Quarters

Ernest Callenbach: The Hollowing Out of the American Empire
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Ernest Callenbach: The Hollowing Out of the American Empire

The current developments through the 2016 US elections reminded me of a serious but overall visionary lecture by Ernest Callenbach in Freiburg in 2005, which is still available on YouTube. His talk is more relevant than ever. 11 years later, one can say he was right on many points... But he does not lose sight of a positive, desirable, more sustainable world.

Back in 2005, Ernest Callenbach described how America has passed the peak of its world power, what forces have weakened it, and what would be needed to build a more sustainable world.

On Youtube his novel "Ökotopia" is available as an audio book (9 parts):
Part 1: www.youtube.com/watch?v=qwmd96jvuqQ



Keywords:
DE-News, Movies, Movies 11 to 45 Min, Social / Culture, Transition Town, Environmental policy

Two new photo galleries of the sustainable model city district in Malmö, Sweden, published
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Two new photo galleries of the sustainable model city district in Malmö, Sweden, published

On the one hand, there are 80 photos by Ludger Dederich from 2013, at which time the district was as good as completed. The urban integration of the "Turning Torso" by Santiago Calatrava can be seen well in some of the photos:
https://siedlungen.eu/galerien/fotogalerie-2013-malmoe

The second photo gallery consists of 30 photos from an excursion with the Chair of Economics and Ecology of Housing (University of Karlsruhe), from 1999, when the Europaviertel was not yet completely finished and visitors were still able to look into some of the furnished model apartments, which were open to visitors, via the building exhibition:
https://siedlungen.eu/galerien/fotogalerie-1999-malmoe



Keywords:
News Blog Europe (without DE), News Blog Sweden, Quarters, Settlements, Water design

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