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Storms, drought and insect infestations have caused a great deal of damage to Germany's forests over the past three years. The "International Day of Forests" on 21 March is a good time to become aware of the many services provided by the forest.
"Rebuilding Forests - A Pathway to Recreation and Well-Being".is the motto of the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) for this year's "International Day of Forests". The Food and Agriculture Organization is thus drawing attention to two things:
An overview of the Ecosystem services offered by the infographic.
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DE-News, Wood construction, Climate protection, Environmental policy, Life cycle assessment
Europe's largest passive house in timber construction is located in Lübeck. It serves as a new workplace for 430 employees of the local public utility company. According to the client, the timber construction method was no more expensive than a conventional mineral wet construction method - also because an intelligent fire protection concept meant that it was not necessary to clad the timber components.
Post dated 11/19/2015 with photos:
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While the emergency aid for companies is getting underway, the debate about possible post-crisis economic stimulus packages is also gaining momentum. The German Green Business Association is proposing a transformation fund to combine a new start for the economy with social aspects and environmental and climate protection.
"We must also place the new start of the economy under the sign of a solidary and ecological transformation" demands UnternehmensGrün managing director Dr. Katharina Reuter. Of course, hedging risks in the economy is the order of the day, so that Germany does not see an all too violent wave of bankruptcies. "Just because some companies are not yet green enough, we cannot put hundreds of thousands of jobs at risk here," Reuter said. And further: "However, a holistic response to the Corona crisis also includes thinking further about economic policy - and here we are clearly calling for a transformation fund, an innovation and investment initiative for the social and ecological restructuring of the economy."
For the Corona crisis also shows the imbalances that have resulted from today's economic system: Austerity measures and privatisation in the health system, too few and too poorly paid skilled workers there, dependence on global supply relationships even for system-relevant products (e.g. protective clothing), environmental pollution and climate crisis with the associated risks for people, transfer of jobs to low-wage countries or the death of local traders. This is where the failures of government policy in recent years come to the fore in the most blatant form. "It annoys us to no end when Federal Minister of Economics Altmaier now suddenly pushes for local production - why didn't he use his time in office for appropriate policy instruments?", said Reuter.
"We need a rethink," Mathias Kollmann, UnternehmensGrün board member and managing director of Bohlsener Mühle, is also convinced. "We as Bohlsener Mühle will get more involved in the regional development of agriculture and supply chains after the Corona crisis. Humanity must emerge stronger from such crises and that also means learning lessons - also for our economic system!"
Carola von Peinen, UnternehmensGrün board member and founder of Talents4Good: "We need to use the shutdown to redefine our guiding principles and values as a society and challenge the maxim of economic growth at all costs."
The central question for post-crisis stimulus packages must be: How do we channel money into sustainable investment? To this end, UnternehmensGrün demands:
In order for investments in climate protection to pay off in post-Corona times, CO2 pricing must not be called into question. To improve the revenue situation, UnternehmensGrün proposes:
"Climate protection and Corona cannot be set off against each other - climate protection also makes economic sense," clarifies UnternehmensGrün board member Jan-Karsten Meier. If, for example, the fossil automotive industry now smells morning air and wants to play off Corona against climate protection (demand for relaxation of CO2 targets for cars), it not only devalues its own investments in fuel-saving drives, electric mobility and fuel cells, but also reveals an incredible degree of anti-solidarity with the younger generation, which is dependent on climate protection measures.
Source: PM of UnternehmensGrün from 1.4.2020
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DE-News, Sustainable management, Resource efficiency, Environmental policy
12/2012: NABU Negative Award goes to Ilse Aigner
www.nabu.de/aktionenundprojekte/dinodesjahres
11/2012: Europe's tallest cross laminated timber skyscrapers with nine floors currently in Milan
www.proholz.at/...mailand...
Research project "PlusEnergyQuartier Oberursel" with about 150 apartments and commercial use starts
www.fr-online.de/...oberursel
10/2012: Built Environment release "Co-Housing in the Making“
The current issue of the English-language journal "Built Environment" deals with communal living on an international level. Authors from Finland, Sweden, Great Britain, Germany, the United States and the Netherlands deal with different aspects of communal living or "co-housing".
Issue reference: www.alexandrinepress.co.uk
10/2012: The most sustainable cities and municipalities of the German Sustainability Award 2012
www.difu.de/...deutscher-nachhaltigkeitspreis-2012...
10/2012: Solar cell record with 44% efficiency
www.solarserver.com/...world-record-solar-cell...
9/2012: IBA Hamburg's BIQ - Microalgae Building
The innovative project in Hamburg Wilhelmsburg is the first house in the world to supply itself with energy via a building façade made of photovoltaic collectors. The flexible interior design also sets standards for the urban life of the future
www.biq-wilhelmsburg.de
8/2012: Climate protection in municipalities: practical guide
The practical guide was funded by the Federal Ministry for the Environment, Nature Conservation and Nuclear Safety (BMU) and developed by the German Institute of Urban Affairs (Difu) in cooperation with the Institute for Energy and Environmental Research (ifeu) and Climate Alliance. Difu was responsible for project management and leadership.
The guide, which was already published in 1997, was fundamentally revised in terms of content and structure due to the lively demand from municipalities throughout the Federal Republic and supplemented with current focal points and fields of action. The new guide once again contains numerous current practical examples that are intended to motivate local authorities to emulate or undertake their own climate protection activities.
www.leitfaden.kommunaler-klimaschutz.de
7/2012: On the website www.informationsdienst-holz.de information about planning and building with wood will be available again.
7/2012: Research team from Freiburg introduces natural hard foams from bark extract here:
www.pr.uni-freiburg.de/...
6/2012: Flagship project "Hamburg Water Cycle"In 770 residential units for approx. 2,000 inhabitants, toilet wastewater (black water) and other domestic wastewater (grey water) is discharged separately. The black water is collected in concentrated form via vacuum toilets with negative pressure technology and converted into biogas together with organic waste in a biogas plant:
www.hamburgwatercycle.de/...jenfelder-au
Past the need: 50,000 square meters of unletable office space in Hamburg's HafenCity
www.spiegel.de/...hamburgs-hafencity
5/2012: 20,000 MW output from German solar plants for the first time
www.iwrpressedienst.de/...
4/2012: Subsidy programmes for energy-efficient construction and refurbishment in full. The Budget Committee of the German Bundestag has released the full amount of funds for the CO2 Building Rehabilitation Programmes for 2012. This means that EUR 1.5 billion per year will be available for the KfW programmes from 2012 to 2014:
www.eco-info.de/...
3/2012: Leitfaden Nachhaltigkeitsorientierte Architekturwettbewerbe. Published by: Free Hanseatic City of Hamburg 2011
www.hamburg.de/lena
2/2012: Damien Hirst invests in 500 eco-homes in southern England
This was reported by various newspapers. According to the report, the houses will be equipped with wind turbines on the roofs, solar panels and state-of-the-art insulation technology. Hirst hopes that the settlement will become a model for sustainable living and a sustainable development of the region. In Devon, the 46-year-old artist already runs a restaurant, a studio and owns several properties. The estate's architect comes pen-led by Mike Rundell of London-based MRJ Rundell + Associates, Architects and Designers. Construction work on the 32-hectare site near Killacleave is due to start in 2013.
2/2012: Reference book "50 Solar Housing Estates in North Rhine-Westphalia". Published
www.energieagentur.nrw.de/solarsiedlungen/page.asp?InfoID=11022
1/2012: Largest Swiss timber construction in Minergie-P Eco construction, car-free living concept and multi-generation living in Oberwinterthur under construction
www.giesserei-gesewo.ch
1/2012: German construction booming in 2011 - 2012 no longer
The construction industry expects sales to grow by 1.0 percent in real terms in 2012. Following a boom year in 2011, the main construction industry association is now preparing its members for a difficult year in an uncertain overall economic environment.
www.heute.de/...
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