The electricity for the electric car can come from the socket - or from the fuel cell. On the road, however, this technology is an absolute rarity. A car rental company in Munich now wants to change that.
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On siedlungen.eu, photos of the sustainable showcase neighbourhood eQ in Pfaffenhofen are now available for the first time. In 2012, Pfaffenhofen received the German Sustainability Award in the "Small Towns and Municipalities" category, and in 2011 the city of Pfaffenhofen was honoured as the most sustainable city in the world (category 20,000 - 75,000 inhabitants) for its eco-neighbourhood, among other things. Click here for the photo gallery [...]
The Paris Motor Show: Once again, the electric car is the focus of a major auto show. But the hoped-for breakthrough is still a long time coming. Cars with combustion engines should therefore pay higher fuel costs, says Florian Hacker of the Öko-Institut to the 3sat business magazine makro.
The new report of the International Energy Agency has it all: the power supply with 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/
Dalston Lane at INFORMATION SERVICE WOOD 121 flats on 12,500 m² of floor space and a further 3,500 m² of commercial floor space are currently being built in London, Dalston Lane. This is currently the world's largest solid timber building. 3,500 m³ of cross laminated timber are being used in nine storeys. Architect: Andrew Waugh.
of the City of Freiburg im Breisgau Contractors: Joachim Eble Architektur, Rolf Messerschmidt, Tübingen EGS-Plan Ingenieurgesellschaft für Energie-, Gebäude- und Solartechnik mbH IER Institut für Energiewirtschaft und Rationelle Energieanwendung, Universität Stuttgart Results: In the analysis of the total annual costs, the running costs and revenues in the utilisation phase are taken into account in addition to the capital-linked investment costs. [...]
The Paris Climate Agreement has given renewable energies and energy efficiency a global tailwind. The Climate Protection Index 2017 presented today by Germanwatch shows a stable upward trend. Overall, however, the global energy transition is still proceeding too slowly to make its contribution to the Paris climate goals, warns the environment and development organisation Germanwatch. The choice of [...]
Since August 2016, fuel cell heating systems have been subsidised with an attractive grant of at least EUR 5,700 via the KfW programme "Energy-efficient construction and refurbishment - fuel cell grant". With a fuel cell heating system, electricity and heat can be generated simultaneously according to the principle of combined heat and power.
84-metre-high building in Vienna's new "Seestadt Aspern" district After around two years of development, the groundbreaking ceremony for the lighthouse HoHo project in Vienna has now taken place. By 2018, around 20,000 square metres of rental space will be created on 24 levels in a timber hybrid construction.
The Federal Cabinet has adopted the Climate Protection Plan 2050 presented by Federal Environment Minister Barbara Hendricks (SPD) by circular resolution. It is based on the guiding principle of largely neutral greenhouse gas emissions by the middle of the century. For the year 2030, it confirms the overall target of a greenhouse gas reduction of at least 55 percent compared to 1990. At the same time, this overall target is for the first time [...]
200 years ago, Karl Freiherr von Drais built the first bicycle - an invention with far-reaching consequences. A song of praise for the smartest means of transport. Read article in the Süddeutsche Zeitung from 13.11.2016
"Vienna has never squandered its stock of apartments, that's why a quarter of all apartments now belong to the city. That sounds good, but it also has disadvantages." Read the whole report in the Süddeutsche from 13.11.2016
NRW.BANK's new promotion loan is aimed at all condominium associations (WEGs) in North Rhine-Westphalia that want to modernise or refurbish the housing they mainly use themselves, have no commercial landlords as members and consist of at least five owners. Smaller WEGs can make use of the NRW.BANK.Gebäudesanierung promotion programme.
With efficiency, greater electrification and renewable energies it is possible to organise transport that is completely neutral in terms of greenhouse gases without having to accept any restrictions on growth and quality of life. This is the result of scenarios developed by the Öko-Institut and presented today in Berlin by Parliamentary State Secretary Rita Schwarzelühr-Sutter. The scenarios for greenhouse gas-neutral transport were developed jointly [...]
With a press conference on 13 September, the new report to the CLUB OF ROME was presented to the public in Berlin. In addition to the authors, the Federal Minister Dr. Gerd Müller also spoke. Read the whole article: www.globalmarshallplan.org/news/neuer-bericht-den-club-rome-berlin-vorgestellt
In October, the Habitat III Conference took place in Quito. The "New Urban Agenda" was adopted there. It is intended to help the world community to shape the global urbanisation process in a sustainable way. Why is there so little discussion about this in Germany?
While striving to reduce greenhouse gas emissions, the City of Rotterdam in the Netherlands focuses its narrative on making buildings, industry and transport cleaner and more efficient, which are concrete and tangible issues that the public can easily rally behind.
In September, Germany's largest thermal solar plant officially went into operation in the Brandenburg city of Senftenberg. The plant was built by Stadtwerke Senftenberg on an area of around 2.2 hectares and is expected to produce around four million kilowatt hours of heat per year.
Support for solar houses with large photovoltaic and solar thermal systems for heat, electricity and mobility remains constantly high "Solar houses with large photovoltaic and solar thermal systems for the climate-friendly generation of electricity and heat are not affected by the changes in the amended Renewable Energy Sources Act." Rainer Körner, 2nd chairman of the Sonnenhaus-Institut e.V., points this out. Since [...]
In this article, Susanne Jacob-Freitag presents the tallest and largest timber buildings in the world, as well as the unique selling point of timber buildings in urban areas and their cost advantages.
In Zurich on 30 November 2008, a 76 per cent majority voted in favour of reducing energy consumption to 2000 watts per capita by 2050. The average value in Switzerland is currently 6000 watts. The 2000-watt society has since been enshrined in the municipal code. "Particularly is before [...]
A film by French philosopher Philippe Simay on arte.tv In this episode, the philosopher visits the region of Vorarlberg in Austria, the international model for ecological and sustainable architecture.
At the end of the UN conference Habitat III in Quito (Ecuador), the environmental and development organization Germanwatch draws a mixed balance. "Around 50,000 people took part in the conference. This alone shows that cities are considered to be of great importance on the way to a sustainable world.
They are highly efficient, low-emission and quiet: New fuel cell heating units generate heat and electrical energy as mini CHP units with over 90 percent efficiency. They have been tested extensively in detached and semi-detached houses, and their function and design have been improved step by step. The first systems are already on the market. They can be operated with natural gas as well as [...]
In 2015, a new excursion attraction was created near Waldbröl in the vicinity of Bonn and Cologne that is not only attractive to wood construction fans: the Panarbora nature experience park. Covering an area the size of eleven football pitches, the park offers a unique combination of nature, amusement and environmental knowledge. The heart of the park is a treetop path [...]
Vancouver celebrates topping-out ceremony of the world's tallest wooden residential building 26.08.2016 - In Vancouver, Canada, a world record in timber construction has been set - almost casually and without much fuss. The wooden structure of the 18-storey student dormitory of the University of British Columbia, was erected in 66 working days and could be opened on [...]
Vision 2020 The municipality of Wüstenrot wants to be energy self-sufficient by 2020. The project "EnVisaGe - Development of a municipal plus-energy concept using the example of the municipality of Wüstenrot" is part of the EnEff:Stadt initiative and describes how, in addition to reducing primary energy use and CO₂ emissions (keyword "decarbonisation"), independence from energy imports can be achieved and local value creation strengthened [...].
With only a few weeks left until the Habitat III conference, DDD #18 on "Cities" has now published 22 insightful articles around the topic of urbanisation. Authors from all over the world have told us about urban life in Africa, Asia, Middle East and the Americas. With a close eye [...]
In the run-up to the UN World Summit on Human Settlements Habitat III, the German Advisory Council on Global Change (WBGU) points to the major challenges of increasing urbanization. In its report "Moving Humanity: The Transformative Power of Cities", the WBGU stresses that a brief window of opportunity is opening up in the next decades of urbanization "to [...]
The member states of the United Nations want to agree on a new urban agenda at the Habitat III conference in Quito. This "New Urban Agenda" is to serve as a political guideline for urban development over the next two decades. Together with Friedrich Kitschelt, State Secretary at the Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development, Federal Minister of Transport, Building and Urban Affairs Barbara Hendricks will take part in the official opening [...]
Bündnis 90 / Die Grünen hat in einem Antrag einen stärkeren Fokus auf das Bauen mit Holz und die Verwendung von Holzprodukten als Dämmstoffen gefordert. Es solle auch einen KfW-Standard geben, der das Bauen mit nachwachsenden Baustoffen in den Fokus nimmt. Die Fraktion schlägt ein Modellprogramm für ökologische Baustoffe mit […]
In Jerry Yudelson's latest book, "Reinventing Green Building: Why Certification Systems Aren't Working and What We Can Do About It," published in June 2016, the American pioneer of sustainable building writes that certification systems are not advancing the needed sustainable development in the building sector quickly and substantially enough.
"Well-insulated and energy-efficient modern housing must remain affordable for poorer people. This is crucial, said DBU Secretary General Dr Heinrich Bottermann at the expert forum "Urban Spaces in Climate Change", so that there is no division in society. He also emphasised how important it is for climate-neutral and resource-saving neighbourhood development to increasingly rely on timber construction [...]
In a study of new residential construction in the Hanseatic city, the Institute for Research and Consulting for Housing, Real Estate and the Environment (F+B) comes to the conclusion that energy requirements such as overall energy efficiency or energy efficiency in Hamburg do not make building more expensive.
In the 2nd quarterly report on the development of renewable energies in Germany published by the Renewable Energies Statistics Working Group, it becomes clear that they are not growing as fast as in the previous year. The addition of photovoltaics fell from 614 megawatts in the first half of 2015 to only 514 megawatts in the current year [...]
For more than 180 days, the power supply of the almost 5 million inhabitants has been almost completely provided by renewable energy sources. Thanks above all to hydropower, the country can now almost completely dispense with fossil fuels for its electricity supply. In addition to hydroelectric power, wind power, photovoltaics and geothermal energy are also used. Source: www.trendsderzukunft.de/... [...]
