For one in three Germans, the car is still a status symbol. But due to running costs and the scarcity of parking spaces, more and more city dwellers are giving up their own car. Is it worth relying completely on car sharing?
Source: WISO tip: Car sharing - ZDFmediathek
Permaculture
In this video from October 2012, the two pioneers of new ways of economy and life Margrit (who died in 2011) and her husband Declan Kennedy, explain in 6 minutes the basic principles of permaculture. The recordings were made at Margrit and Declan Kennedy's home in the Lebensgarten Steyerberg:
6:45 min, 2012
Keywords:
Self-sufficient, Greening / climate adaptation, Cohousing, DE-News, Movies, Movies 4 to 10 Min, Lifestyle / Consumption, Near-natural open space design, News Blog Lower Saxony, Mix of uses, Permaculture, Resource efficiency, Settlements, Social diversity, Sufficiency, Transition Town, urban gardening, Wildlife/animal friendly construction, Residential, Housing projects
With more than 1,700 realised buildings, SolarActiveHouses are no longer a marginal phenomenon. What has been missing so far is a scientific evaluation of this heat supply concept. To this end, researchers have measured nine solar houses over several heating periods. The responsible project manager Gerhard Stryi-Hipp presented the interim results at the OTTI symposium "Thermal Solar Energy".
Read more in the BINE-Projektinfo from 13.05.2015
(BINE-Info was discontinued at the end of 2020)
Keywords:
DE-News, Renewable, Research, Building, Climate protection, New books and studies, PV, PlusEnergy house/settlement, Solar thermal, Life cycle assessment
In May 2014, the residents of the car-free settlement GWL Terrein in Amsterdam planted two stone squares on their own initiative. The residents planted the squares themselves and also covered the costs themselves.
In this 10-minute film, the transformation was documented:
Project Info: http://sdg21.eu/db/gwl-terrein-amsterdam-westerpark
Keywords:
Car Free, Greening / climate adaptation, Movies, Movies 4 to 10 Min, News Blog Europe (without DE), News Blog Netherlands, Quarters, Settlements, Aesthetics / Architecture / Building Culture
In stark contrast to the political reality, the designs for the WerkBundStadt Berlin are characterized by the longing retro chic of a 19th century bourgeois residential culture.
A review worth reading in the db - deutsche bauzeitung of 1.12.2016: www.db-bauzeitung.de/...sehnsucht-statt-siedlung-eine-werkbundstadt-fuer-berlin
Keywords:
DE-News, News Blog Berlin, Quarters, Aesthetics / Architecture / Building Culture
