Colourful, lively, largely car-free - the people of Tübingen also jokingly call the French Quarter the "green hell". The residents, however, appreciate the "ideal world" feeling.
Link: www.zdf.de/...franzoesisches-viertel-in-tuebingen-100.html
Project Info: http://sdg21.eu/db/franzoesisches-viertel-tuebingen
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
Since January, Berlin has had what it claims to be the toughest administrative regulations for procurement and the environment in the country. Thomas Schwilling from the responsible department has accompanied the development and knows about its effect - and the hurdles. An interview:
www.nachhaltigkeitsrat.de/aktuelles/was-berlin-in-sachen-nachhaltiger-beschaffung-unternimmt/
Keywords:
Procurement, DE-News, Communities, Sustainable management, News Blog Berlin, Transition Town, Environmental policy
In June 2016, the state government adopted a sustainability strategy for NRW. It is the first federal state to commit to implementing the global sustainability goals of the United Nations and has defined a system of targets and indicators for key areas of action.
Here are two of seven focus areas:
In future, IT.NRW will present an up-to-date indicator report on sustainability in NRW every two years. The sustainability strategy will be updated every four years.
Press release from 02.07.2016 read: www.nachhaltigkeit.nrw.de/...
Keywords:
Greening / climate adaptation, Soil & land consumption, DE-News, Renewable, News Blog NRW, Resource efficiency, Environmental policy, Life cycle assessment, Ecology
As interactive world map the "New World Atlas of Artificial Sky Brighness" and thus the first worldwide measurement of light pollution since 2001 is now publicly accessible.
Further information: New atlas of light pollution: One third of humanity can no longer see the Milky Way | WIRED Germany
Keywords:
Blogs & Portals, DE-News, Artificial light, New books and studies, News Blog Europe (without DE), City, Environmental policy, Ecology
