The master thesis "Living without a car - niche concept or future model for sustainable urban development? Planning and implementation of car-free and car-reduced urban development projects in comparison" by Andreas Blechschmidt (2016; 104 pages) is now available online.
Link: publikationen.ub.uni-frankfurt.de/opus4/frontdoor/index/index/docId/38429
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The film "In Transition 2.0" (OmU; 65 min) shows examples from the Transition world (e.g. from Japan, New Zealand, India, England, the USA etc.) about the diversity & positive power of the Transition movement and the projects on the ground.
Keywords:
Greening / climate adaptation, Bike-/Velo-City, Soil & land consumption, Renewable, Movies, Movies > 45 Min, Communities, Sustainable management, Near-natural open space design, News Blog Great Britain, Participation, Permaculture, Settlements, Social / Culture, Sufficiency, Transition Town, urban gardening, Wildlife/animal friendly construction
In the Federal Republic of Germany, more than 720 million square metres of building surface have been covered with polystyrene since the Second World War.
Now, according to manager magazins, a series of major fires in industry has startled the insurance industry. Accordingly, the insurance industry now openly advises against not only Styrofoam as an insulating material for commercial enterprises, but also against the raw material polystyrene and the related EPS rigid foam.
"The critical fire behaviour of EPS rigid foam is well known," a spokeswoman for the insurance association GDV told manager-magazin.de.
You can find the whole article from 3.1.2017 in the manager magazin
Keywords:
Stock, DE-News, Resource efficiency, Environmental policy, Housing policy, Thermal insulation, Economics
Rents in Munich have risen by 70 per cent in the past 22 years - a development that is upsetting many Munich residents. What makes the state capital so expensive and how long-time residents and newcomers are suffering as a result.
Read the recommended article in the SZ of 15 July 2017:
www.sueddeutsche.de/politik/mietpreise-in-muenchen-schoene-viel-zu-teure-stadt-1.3587919
Keywords:
Stakeholders, Construction and operating costs, Communities, News Blog Bavaria, Housing policy, Economics
Düsseldorf. 4.25 terawatts (TWh)! This is how much electricity was produced last year (2017) by the photovoltaic systems installed in North Rhine-Westphalia. This corresponds to the average annual electricity demand of more than 1 million four-person households. In total, there are 8.7 million households in NRW.
At the end of last year, PV systems with a total of around 4.64 megawatt peak (MWpeak) were installed in NRW. Compared to the previous year, this represents an increase of more than 3.5 percent. This means that around 136 kWpeak are installed per square kilometre of state surface in NRW. According to data from the North Rhine-Westphalia State Office for Nature, Environment and Consumer Protection (LANUV), there is an average irradiation of 916 kWh per kWpeak per year in the most populous state in Germany. "Photovoltaics has established itself as an attractive option for energy generation due to the technical developments of recent years. The combination of PV with storage technology is also increasingly interesting as a solution for own power consumption in private and industrial applications", says Carl Georg Graf von Buquoy of EnergyAgency.NRW.
Although the construction of PV systems in Germany has been declining in recent years, the construction of solar systems and solar power production have been increasing again for the past two years. The share of electricity generation in Germany from renewable energies was around 38 percent in 2017, with photovoltaics accounting for 7.2 percent nationwide and 2.6 percent in NRW. The PV systems installed in Germany produced a total of around 40 billion kilowatt hours of electricity, thus mathematically covering the annual electricity requirements of over 10.5 million households. With the PV capacity of around 4,640 MWpeak installed in North Rhine-Westphalia in 2017, the state ranked third in a Germany-wide comparison behind Bavaria and Baden-Württemberg.
Source: PM EnergyAgency.NRW of 29.1.2018
Keywords:
DE-News, Renewable, Climate protection, News Blog NRW
