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Traffic clubs demand purchase premium of up to 4000 Euro for e-bikes

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Electric cars are subsidised by the state, e-bikes are not. The bicycle lobby thinks this is unfair, as does the Federal Council - they argue that an opportunity for a transport revolution is being wasted. The government disagrees.

Read the article from 2 September 2016 on SPIEGEL ONLINE „Purchase premium for e-bikes: "Pedalling aid from the Federal Council"


Keywords: Bike-/Velo-City, DE-News, Bicycle, Funding, Mobility, Environmental policy, eMobility

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Majority of builders in NRW rely on renewables

Abb.: IT.NRW
Fig.: IT.NRW

In North Rhine-Westphalia, around one in two (50.6 percent) of the 18,334 residential buildings (excluding dormitories) approved in 2019 are to be heated predominantly or exclusively with renewable energies.


Düsseldorf (IT.NRW). In North Rhine-Westphalia, around one in two (50.6 per cent) of the 18 334 residential buildings approved in 2019 (excluding dormitories) will be heated predominantly or exclusively with renewable energies. These 9 283 residential buildings use biomass, biogas/biomethane, wood, solar panels and/or heat pumps as primary heating energy. As reported by Information und Technik Nordrhein-Westfalen as the State Statistical Office on the occasion of this year's Renewable Energy Day (25 April 2020), the share of construction projects using environmentally friendly heating energies was highest statewide in the Olpe district last year: there, builders relied on renewable energies in 82.2 percent of new buildings. Bottrop (81.3 percent) and the district of Kleve (73.8 percent) followed in second and third place. Building owners in Solingen and the district of Mettmann, on the other hand, planned to use conventional heating energy in the majority of cases in 2019: Here, renewable energies were the primary heating source in around one in five and one in four residential building projects respectively (Solingen: 22.7 per cent; Mettmann district: 26.7 per cent). (IT.NRW)

Source: PM IT.NRW of 24 April 2020



Keywords:
DE-News, Renewable, New books and studies, News Blog NRW, PV, Solar thermal

10 Thesen der Gartenstadt 21
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10 Theses of the Garden City 21

  1. Gartenstadt21 is characterised by joint organisational and financing models which ensure its development and long-term maintenance.
  2. Gartenstadt21 enables adaptable and sustainable models of general participation to be developed and made permanent.
  3. Gartenstadt21 brings about a qualification and networking of existing settlement and open space structures in the metropolitan region.
  4. The Gartenstadt21 has urban qualities in which a high building density and public open spaces are in an appropriate relationship to each other.
  5. Gartenstadt21 offers an attractive "green infrastructure", in the sense of differentiated public open spaces with various functions
  6. The Gartenstadt21 is climate-adapted and energy-optimised
  7. Gartenstadt21 offers a variety of affordable housing options for different social groups
  8. The Gartenstadt21 takes into account new forms of working and the principles of the circular economy in equal measure.
  9. Gartenstadt21 has various public and social facilities for people of different ages and backgrounds
  10. Gartenstadt21 is characterised by a networked mobility offer and thus contributes to a reduction in traffic congestion.

As part of the BBSR study, 10 theses were developed for a "Garden City21 green-urban-networked" that describe process-related and functional qualities of sustainable and integrated urban development. These theses formed the basis for the in-depth investigation within the framework of the Future Lab.
>> more information about the future lab

Source:
www.bbsr.bund.de/...Gartenstadt-21/03-ergebnisse.html...



Keywords:
Greening / climate adaptation, New books and studies, Quarters, Settlements

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City building councillor hands over key in the ecological model settlement

© Michael Nagy / City of Munich

5.3.2020 Munich: City Planning Councillor Professor Dr. (l) Elisabeth Merk has now symbolically handed over the key to the members of the building association "Der Kleine Prinz" in Prinz Eugen Park. Their new building ensemble of atrium and point houses on Jörg-Hube-Straße is part of the ecological model settlement there. In addition to flats, two guest flats, an ice cream café and a bicycle repair workshop were built.

"The ecological model housing estate is a kind of initial spark for further timber construction projects in the city, and with the 'Kleiner Prinzen' project, an outstanding showcase project for high-quality timber construction has been created - beyond the city's borders. This is due not least to the great commitment of all those involved and the successful cooperation as and with the building consortium," Merk emphasised at the handover of the keys, which was attended not only by the members of the building consortium but also by the architects involved from the architectural firm Dressler Mayerhofer Rössler.

Around 1,800 flats as well as a primary school, kindergartens and other facilities are being built in the new Prinz-Eugen-Park urban quarter. Among the developers are a total of six cooperatives and five joint building ventures. The ecological model settlement is made up of eight individual projects. Approximately 570 flats are being built here in timber construction, 407 of which are rental flats, and various community facilities.

Further information on the ecological model settlement in Prinz-Eugen-Park is available at:
http://sdg21.eu/db/oekologische-siedlung-im-prinz-eugen-park

Source: PM of the City of Munich from 5.3.2020

 



Keywords:
Wood construction, Communities, News Blog Bavaria

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