The Mayor of Paris Anne Hidalgo creates more space for cyclists and pedestrians - and wants to push cars out of the city in the long term. Everything else is "old-fashioned".
Read what is planned in the article from 9.1.2017:
www.faz.net/...paris-buergermeisterin-anne-hidalgo-sagt-autos-den-kampf-an-14611364.html
The new website was implemented by the German Institute of Urban Affairs (Difu) as part of the project "Resource Policy at Municipal and Regional Level" (kommRess) on behalf of the Federal Environment Agency. Resource protection is becoming increasingly important in environmental policy. Against this background, the Federal Environment Ministry wants to provide greater support to municipalities in matters of resource efficiency. The website provides an overview of the many possibilities for municipal action and shows good examples of how resources can be conserved.
www.ressourceneffizientekommune.de
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Stock, Blogs & Portals, Quarters, Resource efficiency, Settlements
KfW is looking for builders who are thinking about tomorrow. The 2017 motto is: "Expand, extend, convert - create and modernise living space efficiently".
Apply now until 1 March 2017 and win prize money worth a total of EUR 30,000.
More info: KfW.de/...Awards/KfW-Award-Bauen-und-Wohnen
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Contests & Prizes
The six 72-square-meter apartments of the GBB Plusenergiehaus on Südring are intended for tenants who have a certificate of eligibility for housing. Demand was high. Even before completion, all of the apartments, which were ready for occupancy from May 2015, were already occupied.
The fact that tenants in social housing can now also benefit from the PlusEnergy level and thus from low energy costs is another important step.
Project participants: Gesellschaft für Bauen und Wohnen Bottrop mbH (GBB); architectural firm Strelzig und Klump, energy concept by engineering firm Jung
Source: GBB PlusEnergyHouse
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News Blog NRW, PlusEnergy house/settlement
Osnabrück/Bonn, 30.03.2017: Deutsche Post today put the 1,000th e-bike of its StreetScooter subsidiary into operation in Osnabrück. The delivery bikes, which are electrically assisted up to 25 km/h, have a payload of up to 50 kg and make the work of letter carriers in urban areas much easier. As with the e-cars ("StreetScooter Work"), Deutsche Post delivery staff were involved in the development. The result is an e-bike that has considerable advantages over conventional electric bicycles in terms of ergonomics, efficiency, load distribution and safety standards. For example, instead of three letter containers, four now fit on the bike. The number of e-bikes is to be further increased in the coming years. In addition, Deutsche Post is testing the "E-Trike" from the StreetScooter company with a payload of up to 90 kg in some delivery districts, also for use in letter delivery.
"We are very serious about our climate protection offensive and are very passionate about it," says Jürgen Gerdes, Member of the Board of Management responsible for Deutsche Post DHL Group. "And in addition to the benefits for the environment, there are additional benefits for our employees, whom we equip with the most modern work tools."
Deutsche Post already operates the largest electric fleet in Germany with around 2,500 StreetScooter Work electric vehicles and a total of around 10,500 pedelecs (e-bikes and e-trikes). In the medium term, the Group intends to replace its entire delivery fleet with electric vehicles.
The e-mobility offensive is part of the ambitious environmental programme GoGreenThe Deutsche Post DHL Group aims to reduce all logistics-related emissions to net zero by 2050. One of the four sub-goals on the way to achieving this is to improve people's quality of life at the local level by 2025 through clean transport solutions.
To this end, the Group wants to switch 70 per cent of its own collection and delivery to clean solutions, for example by bicycle or electric vehicles.
Source: PM Deutsche Post DHL Group
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DE-News, Climate protection, eMobility
