Creating sufficient affordable housing - especially in European conurbations - is one of the great challenges of our future and calls for new solutions. In view of demographic change, changing family structures and growing environmental awareness, completely new forms of housing have developed in Europe: shared living for young and old, residents' cooperatives, senior living projects, eco-settlements, integrative living or neighbourhoods in the neighbourhood. Above all, the significance of communal living will change against the background of social traditions and framework conditions such as housing policy and the housing market. This book offers an insight into communal living in eleven European countries - Austria, Switzerland, the Netherlands, France, Great Britain, the Czech Republic, Denmark, Sweden, Norway, Finland and Germany - and presents a large number of exemplary housing projects with their structural and social concepts as well as their different forms of sponsorship.
The book (120 pages) was published by Jovis Verlag and can be purchased at the wohnbund office and in bookshops (ISBN 978-3-86859-406-5).
Europe
Living together
Wohnbund e. V. (Ed.)
Softcover
21 x 29,7 cm
120 pages, 149 col., 18 b/w ill., plans and tables
German/English
ISBN 978-3-86859-406-5
12.2015
In the construction of three new apartment buildings in Wieblinger Weg, Stadtwerke Heidelberg Umwelt GmbH implemented an innovative overall energy concept for Baugenossenschaft Neu Heidelberg eG. PV systems with a total output of 30 kWp and a module area of 200 square metres were installed on the roofs of the new buildings. The tenants are supplied with electricity from a PV system and battery storage. The remaining electricity is supplied in the form of certified green electricity from the public grid. Photo: Stadtwerke Heidelberg Umwelt GmbH
Bonn/Düsseldorf. The fast, affordable and complete energy transition towards 100 percent renewable energy needs thought leaders and pioneers who inspire others. With the annual awarding of the German Solar Prize, EUROSOLAR puts these actors in the public eye and offers new impulses for a decentralised, citizen-oriented and regenerative conversion of the energy system.
EUROSOLAR e.V. and the EnergyAgency.NRW will jointly present the winners of the German Solar Prize 2017 on Saturday, 14 October 2017, at VillaMedia in Wuppertal.
In the run-up to the award ceremony, EUROSOLAR, in cooperation with the Hermann Scheer Foundation is organising a symposium to tie in with Hermann Scheer's visionary work "Der Energethische Imperativ" (The Energy Ethical Imperative). Together with the audience, the speakers will discuss how the rapid path to a renewable energy age can be implemented.
The award ceremony of the German Solar Prize begins with greetings from Lothar Schneider, Managing Director of EnergyAgency.NRW, Bettina Brücher, Mayor of the City of Wuppertal and Jörg HeynkesManaging Director of VillaMedia GmbH. Give an introduction Prof. Dr Andreas Pinkwart, Minister for Economic Affairs, Innovation, Digitalisation and Energy of the State of North Rhine-Westphalia and Stephan GrügerMdL and Vice-President of EUROSOLAR e.V. Afterwards, the award winners will be honoured. Dr Axel BergChairman of EUROSOLAR Germany, the highlight of the event.
This will be followed by a get-together with snacks.
Participation in the event is free of chargeRegistration is requested by 6 October.
Further information and registration
The German Solar Prize 2017 is awarded to nine prize winners:
Category: Cities, municipalities, districts, public utilities
- • Stadtwerke Heidelberg Umwelt GmbH
Pioneer and pioneer for tenant power projects
Category: Solar architecture and urban development
- • elobau Plant 2, Leutkirch im Allgäu
Integral building concept with regenerative and efficient energy technology and high architectural standards
Category: Industrial, commercial or agricultural enterprises/companies
- • ALDI SÜD Group of Companies, Mülheim an der Ruhr
Extensive use of solar energy in retail with integration of
E-mobility and targeted customer communication
Category: Local and regional associations/communities
- • Friends of Prokon e.V., Dortmund
Tireless commitment to citizen-owned renewable energies
Category: Media - Frank Farenski, Berlin
Longstanding commitment to transparent and freely accessible reporting on the energy transition
Category: Transport systems
- • StreetScooter of Deutsche Post DHL Group, Bonn
Comprehensive realisation of environmentally friendly city logistics and wake-up call for the German automotive industry
Category: Education and training
- • :metabolon - Bergisches Energiekompetenzzentrum, Lindlar
Innovative use of a landfill site as a learning, research and information location for resource management and energy and environmental technologies
Category: One World Cooperation
- • Solar Energy Foundation, Freiburg im Breisgau
Sustainable and holistic contribution to poverty reduction in developing countries with the help of solar energy
Category: Special prize for personal commitment
- • Environmental Group Elbvororte, Hamburg
30 years of outstanding commitment to environmental protection and renewable energies
Members of the jury:
Dr Axel Berg, Chairman EUROSOLAR Deutschland e.V.
Prof. Peter Droege, President EUROSOLAR e.V.
Wibke Brems, Member of the German Parliament, EUROSOLAR e.V.
Dr Joachim Frielingsdorf, EnergyAgency.NRW
Stephan Grüger, MdL, Vice President EUROSOLAR e.V.
Thomas Günther, EUROSOLAR e.V.
Rosa Hemmers, EUROSOLAR e.V.
Dr Nina Scheer, Member of the German Bundestag, Hermann Scheer Foundation
Irm Scheer-Pontenagel, EUROSOLAR e.V.
Prof. Eberhard Waffenschmidt, SFV Germany e.V.
The 2nd quarterly report published by the Renewable Energy Statistics Working Group on the development of renewable energies in Germany clearly shows that they are not growing as quickly as in the previous year. The expansion of photovoltaics fell from 614 megawatts in the first half of 2015 to just 514 megawatts in the current year. There was also a decline in wind energy from 2,858 megawatts in the previous year to 1,952 megawatts. The supply of heat from renewable energies increased by around 3 per cent year-on-year to 94.1 billion kilowatt hours.
To the quarterly report of the Renewable Energies Working Group
The German Association of Cities, the Global Parliament of Mayors and the international cities network ICLEI have joined forces to form a Cities Alliance to accompany the German G7 Presidency. The alliance is organising a conference on Tuesday, 3 May a U7 Mayors Summitwhich brings together high-level representatives of cities from the G7 countries. Representatives of the media are invited to follow the event virtually.
The international exchange is under the heading "Engaging the Urban World - Cities as Engines of Change for Peace, Democracy and Sustainability".. It is the most important event of cities in the framework of the German G7 Presidency. A joint declaration by the cities will also be adopted: In the „Urban7 Mayors Declaration“ the city leaders from the G7 countries will present their expectations of politics and business in order to meet the global challenges on the ground.
Participating and speaking as the German delegation will be:
Lord Mayor Markus Lewe, Münster, President of the German Association of Cities,
Lord Mayor Peter Kurz, Mannheim, Chairman Global Parliament of Mayors,
State Secretary Jochen Flasbarth, Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development
State Secretary Dr. Rolf Bösinger, Federal Ministry of Housing, Urban Development and Construction
The Mayors Round Table is also attended by city leaders from the G7 countries USA, Japan, Canada, Italy, the UK, France and the EU. Among the topics discussed at the event will be: Consequences of the war in Ukraine, role of cities in multi-level governance, impact of climate change, status of democracy, sustainable urban development, municipal development cooperation and the United Nations Global Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). The Cities Summit is supported by the German Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development (BMZ) and the Service Agency Communities in One World (SKEW) of Engagement Global.
A press release of the German Association of Cities and its partners will also be published for the event. Further information is available on the Summit website at: https://g7u7.org/
Hamburg (8 July 2017). In Hamburg, 19 heads of government from the largest economies jointly reaffirmed their commitment to the swift implementation of the Paris Climate Agreement and rejected US President Trump's attempt to undermine the Paris Agreement.
According to the leaked results, the final declaration sets out the differences between the USA and the other 19 partners on climate protection. The 19 emphasise the irreversibility of the agreement, commit to rapid implementation and adopt a detailed climate and energy action plan. "The action plan is the most concrete result on climate policy that the G20 has ever produced," explains Christoph Bals, Political Director of Germanwatch. "It shows that it is no longer just about reaffirming the Paris Agreement, but about taking steps to implement it."
In the document, the 18 states plus the EU emphasise, among other things, the importance of long-term climate protection strategies, which are to be presented by 2020. They commit to aligning development aid and infrastructure investments with climate targets and specify steps that can be taken to encourage companies and investors to disclose their climate strategies. Bals: "We welcome the fact that the 19 partners are also recognising their responsibility for the poor and those particularly vulnerable to climate change and are launching a global partnership for financing and climate insurance solutions."
The US government's attempt to obtain a free pass for fossil fuel exports was curbed as the US accepted the UN's global Sustainable Development Goals as a framework for the energy transformation in the joint section of the G20. "This means they accept that the share of renewable energies will grow substantially by 2030 and that the pace of energy efficiency improvements will double," explains Bals.
Chancellor Merkel is criticised. She cannot "put the phase-out of coal, oil and gas on the international agenda by the middle of the century and refuse a plan at home for the rapid, socially acceptable phase-out of coal," emphasises Bals. "It cannot push ahead with plans to accelerate the international climate transition and at the same time have no strategy in Germany for the transport sector, which still has emissions as high today as they were in 1990."
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Hamburg (8 July 2017). In Hamburg, 19 heads of government from the largest economies jointly reaffirmed their commitment to the swift implementation of the Paris Climate Agreement and rejected US President Trump's attempt to undermine the Paris Agreement.
