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Major European cities such as Amsterdam, Geneva and Brussels, have adopted the doughnut model to guide their green transitions.
The Riga City Council has tested out a pilot project using the videogame Minecraft to engage young people and students in the field of local urban planning. The use of the game makes the complex disci..
The main message I brought was that cities should be included in global policymaking on climate and the upcoming climate summits. Without cities, it will be impossible to tackle global warming. Moreover, cities want to lead the way. They facilitate innovation and have the capacity to invest on a large scale in clean mobility, green construction and creating a sustainable energy supply.
Vienna will construct a climate-friendly district with affordable housing mixed with a public park. The new development will have rainwater capture abilities and also feature unsealed soil as a holist..
El 'Estudio del potencial fotovoltaico de 150 centros educativos en la Comunidad de Madrid' ha sido elaborado en colaboración con la empresa IMPACT-E
Vienna’s energy authorities announced the launch of a new power-to-heat plant near the Hundertwasser incinerator. The plant will use excess renewable energy as a sustainable supply for district heatin..
The Romanian city of Brasov will install smart eco-islands, recycling and waste collection points that report their capacity to authorities. The city hopes to reduce the trash that ends up in landfill..
Around the world, cities are implementing measures to reduce or mitigate the effects of rising temperatures. To protect the most vulnerable groups of citizens, the City Council of Barcelona has decided to create a network of climate shelters. These are specially conditioned spaces kept at 26 degrees Celsius with good accessibility, rest, and water areas to ease the sensation of heat. Spaces across the city are adapted to serve as shelters, with local schools being one of the primary resources used in the program.
Solidarity City is a media project of Cooperative City Magazine to promote and strengthen social and solidarity economy practices throughout Europe. Taking Vienna as its starting point, the project aims at mapping initiatives that focus on social inclusion, fair employment, participation, sustainable food systems, ethical consumption and responsible tourism, and exploring their achievements and challenges, as well as telling their stories and helping them gain visibility.
The Bavarian capital wants to construct a massive, city-wide cycling expressway system by 2025.
Recently, the local government in Munich announced a new cycling infrastructure strategy, that will see the construction of six cycling expressways in the city, as well as a bicycle ring road around the centre. This massive expansion of the cycling infrastructure came after a 2019 citizen-led petition and a feasibility study from last year.
Authorities in Barcelona have announced the start of a pilot test that will see the provision of free solar energy to low-income families in the city with the goal of lightening their energy bills. The electricity will be produced and provided by photovoltaic pergolas installed in public spaces around the city. The proposed aim of the project is to see whether this is a viable path to creating self-sufficient energy communities in the Catalonian capital. Likewise, it is a way to maximize the efficient use of public space surfaces in a way that brings benefits to the communities living in their vicinity.
Freiburg and Münster are known throughout Europe as examples of successful municipal transport policy. Ramón Linaza, a leading Spanish transport activist, recalls: “we have always seen Freiburg as a reference.” However, Freiburg’s reputation as a cyclist’s city (immortalised in the Tocotronic song Freiburg) is based on a policy that came to fruition in the 1990s. In addition, neither Freiburg nor Münster succeeded in reducing the proportion of cars in the Modal Split (a breakdown of traffic volumes by the different modes of transport). Both roads and car parks continued to be built apace.
The Lisbon Municipal Assembly approved the proposal to make public transport free to use for young up to the age of 18, higher-education students up to the age of 23 and for elderly residents above the age of 65.
The measure, which is seen as a tool “to combat climate change”, as indicated by the mayor of Lisbon, Carlos Moedas, will have a total annual cost of around 14.9 million euros, and should come into force in the coming months. The City will conclude an agreement with the public transit operator TML, which will extend the provision of free rides for the above-mentioned groups until 31 December 2025.
Social justice and decarbonization
The mayor of Lisbon is a firm advocate of the measure, which he sees as historic and as a way to make the Portuguese capital a model city in the fight against climate change.
"This step is social justice, it is justice for those who want to change the world and who really want to make the world better so that we have a planet we can live on. This measure is also justice in the decarbonization of the planet that we need so much, and this measure is to improve people's lives," he declared, as quoted by Jornal de Negocios.
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Want to solve homelessness and make it so people aren’t paying nearly all their income on housing? Look to Vienna
Le 2 juin 2022, la stratégie Good Food 2 (2022-2030)
s'ouvre dans une nouvelle fenêtre a été approuvée par le gouvernement bruxellois.
La stratégie Good Food 2 ambitionne que tou·te·s les Bruxellois·es aient accès à des aliments Good Food adaptés à leurs besoins, dans le respect d'un prix juste pour les producteurs·rices. Afin d'atteindre ces objectifs, la Région bruxelloise a impliqué les acteurs·rices du secteur social et de la santé et a adopté une approche de l'alimentation « par quartier », au plus proche des citoyen·ne·s.
Vienna’s Seestadt Aspern district is getting an innovative sustainable office complex that will not need a heating system. Instead, the building will make use of thick brick walls to retain natural bo..
Baisse des températures dans tous les bâtiments publics, extinction dès 22h de certains éclairages et bâtiments municipaux, lutte contre la précarité énergétique, la Ville de Paris met en action depuis ce vendredi 23 septembre, ses premières mesures pour faire face à la crise énergétique. Objectif : 10 % d'économie cet hiver.
New public buildings in Finland have to incorporate more wood, which is leading builders to innovate.
The European Commission’s Circular Cities and Regions Initiative (CCRI) is taking concrete shape with the selection of 12 cities and regions, which will act as Pilots for exemplary projects in terms o..
Cities are particularly deadly in a heat wave— but fatalities are not inevitable.
As temperature records tumble across the Continent, the death toll from the extreme heat is starting to become apparent. Last Friday, for example, a municipal street cleaner in Madrid died of heat stroke while working outdoors in temperatures over 40 degrees Celsius. On Saturday another worker died after spending several hours in a warehouse where temperatures surpassed 46C.
Interview de Sylvain Godinot, 2eme adjoint au Maire de Lyon délégué à la transition écologique et au patrimoine.
Wien Gusto’, as the brand is called, will source its produce from the nearly 2,000 hectares of farm land owned by the city
Yesterday, the city of Vienna announced that it will launch its own line of organic produce, which will be sold on the retail markets. The city owns around 2,000 hectares of arable land and vineyards, making it one of the largest organic farms in Austria.
This week, authorities in Vienna announced that Wien Energie, the city’s energy company, has set up heat pumps in one of the natural thermal water pools in the Austrian capital. Said pumps will collect heat from wastewater and feed it back to the district heating system, providing green energy for 1,900 households in the Oberlaa district.
The Swedish city is a pioneer of its own in the field of sustainability. One of its praiseworthy initiatives was the creation of the LFM30 roadmap to climate-neutral construction. In essence, this is a large-scale collaborative platform among all the main local stakeholders involved in the construction industry, working in accord with the public administration to achieve a climate-neutral status for their city.
Residents of the German city of Stuttgart were able to enjoy free public transportation last Saturday. The action will take place 3 more times until the end of this year.
Mayor of Stuttgart Frank Nopper stated on social media: ‘’I would like to cordially invite the people of Stuttgart to take advantage of the offer and visit the city center without any parking stress or thoughts about high fuel prices.’’
The four dates have been selected after negotiations with the City Initiative Stuttgart when the matter was raised during the deliberations for the double budget 2022/2023, the city of Stuttgart announced on their website.
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