May. 2012 click pictures to enlarge
Disappointing; At the Famous Floriade, the international Agricultural exhibition, there is also attention for environment and biobased and renewable production. Here is a electric car, loaded by a PV roof. Unfortunately the environmental profit is destroyed by the impact from a solid stainless steel carport… link1 >>
Major Peter Vadasz showed me around, and indeed,Gussing, Austria is producing more renewable energy as it needs, within its won borders, without corrupting food or materials need.
Close by is Bad Blumau, where Hundertwasser realized his philosophical dream: The vertical is for man, the horizontal is for nature: The producing roofs, as we will need them physically in the future!
march 2012
(Revolution by Justice : to be published in English soon)
Is there an escape, will we be able to convince politicians to address climate change, peak oil and resource depletion? So far every expert I asked agreed that most likely we will face disasters, and will not be able to make gradual changes. Even democracy is under discussion , it has lost power to the multinationals. And then there is Roger Cox finding a way out! He describes the issues, analyses them and looks at these trough the juridical glasses and finds laws and legal ways to force nations to take measures. The judges are the only ones left that can objectively weigh the scientific evidence , regardless populist outcries or political short sightness . Brilliant analyses and more or less a prosecutors closing speech. Now lets get organized and make them move!
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dec 2011
Four buildings, each year one and each more ambitious then the previous one : energy producing, and up to 100% made of renewable and recycled materials, partly grown in the garden. The (small) district itself, should be 0-energy as well, and produce [...]
march 2012
The TEDex organsiation organises a TED talks day in Wageningen. Some 28 presentations are selected to perform.
dec 2011
Can Spatial planning be guided by exergy, or should exergy guide spatial planning?
Sustainable Building Support centre
