Nature can also be experienced in the direct living environment in the city, if planned accordingly. A completely new approach is to consider the needs of animals not only in green and open spaces, but also in the planning of buildings. Because the demands of humans and animals can be [...]
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Frankfurt/Main (dpa) - The Frankfurt "Bündnis Mietentscheid" submitted about 25,000 signatures to the electoral office on Tuesday. The participants want to achieve a referendum on the preservation and expansion of subsidized housing, as spokespersons for the alliance said before the handover.
WIESBADEN - At the start of the heating season, private households had to pay around 40 % higher prices to fill up their heating oil tanks in October 2018 than a year earlier. As the Federal Statistical Office (Destatis) further reports, consumer prices for light heating oil have risen since March, following sharp price declines in 2014 and 2015 [...]
On the one hand, more and more old office buildings and office parks are losing their function. On the other hand, there is a great demand for living space in cities and agglomerations. This publication shows the opportunities, but also the difficulties, associated with the conversion of this particular building typology.
In 2018, Deutsche Bahn fed 57 percent green electricity into the grid. This is an increase of 13 percent in electricity from renewable energies compared to the previous year.
From May to December 2018, the following sustainable settlements and neighbourhoods were accessed most frequently in the sdg21 web database: settlement / neighbourhood 1. Bielefeld-Waldquelle 2. Ökostation Freiburg 3. ESA student dormitory Kaiserslautern 4. Hundertwasser-Haus "Waldspirale" 5. IBA Block 6 Berlin 6. Ökosiedlung "Frasenweg" 7. Stellwerk 60 Cologne-Nippes 8. Am Rundling Berlin 9. [...]
The nationwide Forest and Wood Competence and Information Centre started its work on 1 January 2019. At the beginning of the year, the Federal Ministry of Food and Agriculture (BMEL) gave the go-ahead for the Competence and Information Centre for Forests and Wood (KIWUH) under the umbrella of the Agency for Renewable Resources (Fachagentur Nachwachsende Rohstoffe e.V.). (FNR). "With the [...]
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High costs due to failure to protect the environment - Federal Environment Agency presents updated cost rates Too many greenhouse gases, air pollutants and other environmental burdens damage our health, destroy ecosystems and cause animals and plants to die out. In addition, they lead to economic losses due to, for example, production downtimes, crop losses or damage to buildings and infrastructure.
In 2017, from April to December, the following profiles of sustainable settlements in the sdg21 web database were accessed most frequently: settlement page views 01. Sustainable model city district Vauban 782 02. Tree houses by Frei Otto in Berlin-Tiergarten 641 03. Community settlement "Alte Gärtnerei" in Kiel 610 04. Clay building settlement Schöneiche 599 05. Hundertwasser house "Waldspirale" 539 [...]
On 29 November, the topping-out ceremony took place in Quartier Weißensee with the project participants and future residents.
Yesterday, the Agency for Renewable Energies awarded the Rhine-Hunsrück district as Energy Municipality of the Decade / Environment and Energy Minister Ulrike Höfken congratulates warmly on this award. Yesterday, the Agency for Renewable Energies awarded the Rhine-Hunsrück district in Kassel as "Energy Municipality of the Decade". "Climate change is clearly noticeable in Rhineland-Palatinate, as currently [...]
The state of Rhineland-Palatinate is providing funding of 150,000 euros for a local heating network in Gimbweiler, which is to be supplied in future by means of a solar thermal open-space system and a woodchip system.
Project partners of the EU project NETfficient take stock and publish manual in January 2019 Over the past four years, the power grid on the North Sea island of Borkum has served as a real laboratory for testing elements of a future-proof energy system. Central to this was the development of energy storage systems and their networked operation within a virtual power plant. The measures were implemented via [...]
Weiter Informationen über das Stiftungsdorf Ellener Hof: http://sdg21.eu/db/stiftungsdorf-ellener-hof-oekologisch-gebaut-bunt-gemischt
A recent study by the Energy Watch Group and the Finnish University LUT shows how the energy transition can be realized with 100% renewable energies in Europe. According to the study, greenhouse gas emissions would be reduced to zero before 2050 and there would be significant financial advantages compared to the conventional fossil-nuclear system. Pdf-Download: http://energywatchgroup.org/...2018/12/Key-findings_100-renewable-Transition-across-energy-sectors-Europe.pdf
The Ministry for the Environment, Climate and Energy Management of Baden-Württemberg is again supporting investments in photovoltaic systems in combination with battery storage with a total of five million euros in the coming year.
Many new projects, new photo galleries or new individual project photos have been added to the web database www.siedlungen.eu in 2018. The following is an overview. New projects and photos in the sdg21 database Living at the Dantebad Project link: http://sdg21.eu/db/wohnen-am-dantebad Direct to photo gallery: https://siedlungen.eu/galerien/fotogalerie-2018-wohnen-am-dantebad Many thanks to Johann Hartl for the photos! New photo galleries [...]
The new Sustainable Development Goals (SDG) portal of the Bertelsmann Stiftung in cooperation with the German Association of Cities and Towns (Deutscher Städtetag), the German Association of Rural Districts (Deutscher Landkreistag), the German Association of Towns and Municipalities (Deutscher Städte- und Gemeindebund), the German Institute of Urban Affairs (Difu) and Engagement Global - Service für Entwicklungsinitiativen (Engagement Global - Service for Development Initiatives) went online today. It is interesting to compare individual cities with each other: https://sdg-portal.de
5th Symposium on Citizen Energy & Energy Cooperatives in NRW Recklinghausen. Energy in the hands of citizens: This was the topic of the symposium on citizen energy & energy cooperatives in North Rhine-Westphalia on Thursday, December 6, in Recklinghausen. Around 80 players in the field of citizen energy met there to exchange experiences and transfer knowledge. The 5th symposium is a cooperation of the cooperative association - [...]
Fast and sustainable building, adding storeys and renovating with wood As part of Expo Real 2019, experts from the timber construction industry met for the inaugural event of the Netzwerk Holzbau München. Organiser Andreas Lerge, Managing Director Wood Real Estate, opened the evening and welcomed his guests with the topics of digitalisation and professionalisation in timber construction. Currently, [...]
Environment Minister Ursula Heinen-Esser presents this year's NRW Forest Condition Report: "Our forests are in a worrying condition. This is because the combined effect of storms in the spring, followed by extreme summer drought and then heavy bark beetle infestation in the coniferous forests means that the damage this year is considerable."
Denmark's capital has reached a milestone on its way to becoming a bicycle city. There are now more bikes on the streets than cars. Will other cities follow suit?
Germanwatch welcomes MEPs' call for higher EU climate target 2030 and greenhouse gas neutrality by 2050 at the latest Bonn (25 October 2018). The European Parliament is stepping up the pace on climate protection. MEPs today gave a mandate to the EU negotiating delegation for the UN climate summit in Katowice in December, calling for the EU to raise its target [...]
With the "GREEN high 3 Roofs | Facades | Courtyards" funding programme for existing buildings, we want to expand the greening of roofs, facades and backyards. In this way, we are supporting the efforts of the people of Cologne to green and thus enhance the value of private house and courtyard areas close to their homes as well as commercial areas.
BauInfoConsult surveyed 6,000 architects On the insulation market, so-called "natural" insulation materials such as wood wool, hemp, cork, granulates and co. are still niche products. However, they are on the rise throughout Europe, at least from the point of view of architects: According to a survey of 1,600 European planners, the use of natural insulation materials is likely to increase in seven of [...]
with a focus on solar energy, neighbourhood concepts and funding The BUND Yearbook Ecological Building & Renovation, published by the Bund für Umwelt und Naturschutz Deutschland (BUND), helps owners by making them fit for discussions with the house bank, architect, energy advisor and tradesmen. The guidebook, which will be available in November, shows what can be done and how: Starting [...]
Three years after the adoption of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, implementation is progressing, but not fast enough: worldwide, ambitions must increase significantly to achieve the global Sustainable Development Goals by 2030. Federal Minister Müller and Federal Minister Schulze will draw conclusions on 5 November in Berlin at the joint [...]
The current share of green electricity should not hide the fact that this federal government is blocking the energy transition at every turn. Take wind energy, for example: the government keeps delaying the additional tenders. As a result, a massive slump is imminent in the next two years. This means job losses in a key industry of the future and stagnating development [...]
New ideas can be submitted from summer 2019 The Federal Environment Ministry is today launching a new funding call for "Climate protection through cycling". In future, the National Climate Initiative (NKI) will fund model projects that, among other things, support cities and municipalities, but also associations and companies, in developing attractive cycling offers and [...]
In its current special report, the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change has pointed out the need for massive savings in greenhouse gases. With its project of "100 climate protection settlements in NRW", North Rhine-Westphalia is pursuing the goal of significantly reducing these emissions through the combination of energy-efficient buildings with low greenhouse gas house technologies. 35 of these energy-efficient climate protection settlements have already been [...]
Berlin, 22 October 2018: Vattenfall Energy Solutions, Gewobag and the energy storage start-up Lumenion are jointly piloting a new type of sector-coupled steel storage system at Bottroper Weg in Berlin-Tegel, which absorbs regional generation peaks from wind and solar energy in a grid-serving manner and later provides the renewable energy as heat and electricity in line with demand.
Six to ten gigawatts of photovoltaic capacity could be installed on Berlin buildings. More than enough to cover 25 percent of Berlin's electricity supply with solar energy, as envisaged in the plan for Berlin. But the current pace of expansion is decidedly too slow. The Solarcity Berlin master plan envisages a quarter of [...]
The district of Paderborn has achieved a climate goal that can only be dreamed of nationwide. It is more than 100 percent in the supply of green electricity. This year, for the first time, as much electricity will be generated renewably with the help of wind, sun, biomass and water as is also consumed. Since [...]
