Record year for green electricity worldwide: solar and wind overtake coal

The new report from the International Energy Agency has it all: the electricity supply from renewable energies is growing faster than expected - and for the first time even faster than coal-fired power. An incredible turning point.

Read the whole article: https://blog.campact.de/2016/11/rekordjahr-fuer-oekostrom-weltweit-sonne-und-wind-haengen-kohle-endlich-ab/

Keywords: Renewable, Climate protection, New books and studies, News Blog Europe (without DE), Environmental policy

STADTraum54 - Beautiful living for everyone

The new cooperative for Cologne that is reinventing the neighbourhood - a participatory event

Beautiful living for all - the rooftop cooperative initiative STADTraum54 is initiating the largest new cooperative project in Cologne - and you are helping to plan it? The initiators of STADTraum54 are putting their concept up for debate. Taking part is part of the programme!

Who owns the city? To all of us! Housing is a basic right, social coexistence is the foundation of our society, ecology is our responsibility and community is our desire. Many people looking for a housing project would subscribe to this guiding principle. And although there are many interested parties and some nice projects, there has been a lack of effectiveness on a larger scale in Cologne so far.

This initiative aims to push forward into a new dimension of housing projects in Cologne and everyone can contribute to this as a source of ideas, supporter or comrade. Even the first project should be larger than the usual housing projects, guarantee a long-term social commitment and also be of benefit to the neighbourhood. What has been realised in Berlin, Munich and Zurich should also be possible in Cologne. However, it should not just be a project for a small group of lucky people, but the start of a new urban culture. How we get there and which things are important and which are luxuries will be worked out together on this evening.

The event is the start of a participatory process that will result in a city that is kept alive by its citizens through active use, that belongs to them and in which they feel at home - but it starts with a project and then some!

Tuesday, 25.08.2016, 19:00 to 21:00 | Haus der Architektur Köln, Josef-Haubrich-Hof, 50676 Köln | Organiser: Netzwerk für gemeinschaftliches Bauen und Wohnen, a project of hdak | Admission free, please register by e-mail to anmeldung@hda-koeln.de